Sentence examples for with a rectitude from inspiring English sources
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.
If this suggests, rightly, that he took a certain pride in facing up to grim truths about the human condition, Stegner sought to achieve that "livable accord" with grace and style and wit (not long before this quotation, he discusses DeVoto's little book in tribute to the cocktail hour) and with a rectitude that a good Puritan would admire, albeit unhitched from any transcendent source.
The reliable Mr. Kunken (Andy Fastow in the short-lived "Enron") imbues the mostly functional role of Father Delpapp with a stiff rectitude occasionally inflected with wry humor.
Alex Brendemühl imbues the role of the notorious physician with a creepy rectitude, especially in his obsession with 12-year-old Lilith (exceptional newcomer Florencia Bado).
There's a rectitude to their visuals.
"Damsels in Distress": Whit Stillman's return isn't a return to form but the discovery of a new one — his aphoristic brilliance is now couched in a poetically excessive rhetoric of hyperstylized rapidity, which only an extraordinarily nimble and virtuosic cast could keep spinning with a perfect gyroscopic rectitude.
The progressive era still had a Victorian culture, with its rectitude and restrictions.
His treatment of Fanny was not the only flaw in his character, for he could be a petulant humbug dripping with rectitude, and in many ways he was a very limited man with almost no conversation about anything except his profession.
More casual than a suit jacket yet crackling with discipline and rectitude, they have a deft way of avoiding wardrobe pigeonholes like "overcoat" or "sport coat" that can limit a garment's appeal and utility.
Some have found Mr. Masur a prosaic interpreter more concerned with musical rectitude than spontaneity.
In the clip Kurtz introduces his "story" with a vow of professional rectitude.
