Sentence examples for upright life from inspiring English sources

For the last 20 years he had led an "upright life", and he had been patron of 16 charities.

Instead, his oratorios, choruses, glees, and parlor songs were intended to foster fellow-feeling and to serve as an aesthetic model for the upright life.

Her whole, total animal thing took over, while for me, thanks to the downers, all memory of the upright life was gone.

In mitigation, Sonia Woodley QC had argued Harris had led an "upright life" for the last two decades, outlining his charitable acts, and said he needed to be with his family in the "twilight years" of his life.

Yet at 33 I seem to have somehow led a morally upright life, having perhaps even an oversensitized respect for women, fairness and life in all of its forms.

13 1 After an interval of a few years Marcus Livius Drusus entered the tribunate,45 a man of noble birth, of eloquent tongue and of upright life; but in all his acts, his success was not in keeping with his talents or his good intentions. 2 It was his aim to restore to the senate its ancient prestige, and again to transfer the law courts to that order from the knights.

I thought, this is the kind of result we hoped they'd achieve living an upright Christian life, but they're finding that contentment just being themselves.

Maybe teshuva is not about living the most upright, perfect life possible.

Even the mention of sexual abuse in the upright, protected life I tried to create for my family made me feel exposed.

Writing on the eve of a battle, Sir Thomas presents a guide for living an upright and noble life in twenty short chapters, each containing a moral and a parable.

He had a deep spiritual dimension, with a religious faith that was central to his political beliefs and his upright way of life.