Sentence examples for weight of propriety from inspiring English sources

As the suit becomes smaller and smaller, each square inch takes on more and more of the weight of propriety.

At this, Coleridge suffered a rare fit of propriety.

Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?

There was a disregard of the facts and of propriety.

It offends his sense of propriety.

I've never given much thought to the difference between English notions of propriety and Dutch notions of propriety.

The conservatory also reminds visitors of changing views of propriety.

Unauthored, unpredictable, indifferent to human notions of propriety and consequence.

Who can define "current recognised standards of propriety"?

And we would discover, democratically, our current views of propriety.

These principles together amount to a general requirement of propriety.