Sentence examples for whose rectitude from inspiring English sources
Meaning to drink alcohol heartily, it is a derivation of its well-behaved older sister "beverage", a word whose rectitude is beloved of licensing committees everywhere.
In my time there, I was continually reminded of Willie Stark, the Huey Long-inspired political boss in Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men," and of Stark's assertion that there is nobody in public life whose rectitude is truly spotless and uncompromised: "Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption, and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud.
Fitzgerald portrays a man whose stern rectitude was joined to the conviction that fun was essential and that children should be very happy (the late in late Victorian: think Lewis Carroll).
Mr. Singh, whose reputation for rectitude has been tarnished by a string of scandals, has been struggling to regain some ground on Mr. Hazare, who has gone on the offensive against Congress in a key by-election.
He emphasizes the moral conflict between Ahab and the first mate, Starbuck (an oddly well-groomed Lee E. Ernst) whose practicality and rectitude stand in opposition to the mad captain's self-justifying monomania.
The Beethoven performance was as much about Mr. Eguchi as it was about his partner; this is a pianist of fluency and rectitude, whose sense of order even in the heat of battle did as much as anything to keep the playing on its successful course.
The mousy school principal who hires him, Rosalie Mullins Joan Cusackk), is a model of nervous rectitude behind whose spectacles flashes a tiny glint of rebellion.
Rehn is drawing up plans to dispatch scores of EU officials to Athens to impose fiscal rectitude on Greece whose own deficit this year threatens to be 6.7% rather than the planned 5.4% as recession deepens.
It's tougher for a chief executive; tougher still for a chief executive whose touchstone has been absolute rectitude; and toughest of all for a righteous chief executive at the media center of the world, whose loudest local papers are not the Kansas City Star or the Burlington Free Press or even the New York Times but the Daily News and the Post.
He and others say that wholesomeness is deeply authentic to Mr. Romney, whose spiritual life revolves around personal rectitude.
This was the firm that often defied the resistance not just of fellow accountants, but of clients, to speak up for fuller financial disclosure, and whose partners carried themselves with a rectitude that competitors often found hard to bear.
