Sentence examples for whose decency from inspiring English sources

There were some police officers whose decency stood out.

The key to the movie is Salvatore, whose decency stops thankfully short of saintliness.

They were collected by "the others," as he calls the S.S. mobile killing units, to distinguish them from ordinary soldiers, whose decency the book extols, and were put into a sealed-off part of the former G.P.U.

This was certainly the case with John Major when he took over from Mrs. Thatcher: he was seen as a decent, middling chap whose decency would substitute for positive thought.

After Daisy joins their wrestling circle, Ken, whose decency is matched by his dimness, becomes convinced (with help from some conspiracy-minded friends) that she has been brainwashed by amazon aliens.

But, as drunken roué, and, later, as Hitler and as Bluebeard, Chaplin was also the monster of ego; as a dethroned king, he embodied the dignified man of old-school virtues whose decency is tested by new technologies and the new morés they entail.

Mr. Gamblin plays him as a man whose essential decency is a compulsion; he has to do what's right.

Miller's comic features a Superman whose hopeful decency is heavily contrasted with Batman's grim-browed cynicism.

He was no longer seen as a callow monarch dabbling in trivial pursuits, but as a man whose inherent decency had nurtured an era of stability.

His moral universe certainly has room for obvious heroes and villains, but in his best films he undermines his Manichean soapbox tendencies by attending to gray areas and focusing on characters whose essential decency is challenged and complicated by circumstances.

The same is true of several others, particularly Hans Olav, whose initial decency and eventual ruthlessness are simply set down side by side with little effort to get them to confront each other.