Sentence examples for with rectitude from inspiring English sources
The phrase "with rectitude" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions or behavior that are morally upright or honest. Example: "She approached her duties with rectitude, ensuring that every decision was made with integrity."
What quaint world does he live in, where ambition and competition are never narcissistic but only to be equated with rectitude?
He said the army acted with "rectitude and patriotism" when it pursued rebel groups in the troubled southern state of Guerrero, the main focus of rural rebellions in the 1970's.
He's certainly gone to the opposite extreme now; his Captain von Trapp may be handsome and imposing but he's so stiff with rectitude throughout as to seem incapable of unbending into romance, even (or especially) when discarding his shoes and socks to join Maria for a mutual dunking of feet in the water trough during "Something Good".
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.
In "Gonna Do Great Things," Gary Fishgall notes that "the relatively few African-Americans who had become national celebrities" at the mid-20th century "spoke carefully and acted with rectitude, as if they were walking on eggshells," while Davis "went about his business as if he didn't care about breaking eggs or setting a good example for anyone.
Austerity nostalgia tends to present itself as if it's to do with rectitude or morally correct behaviour – the British stiff upper lip and all of that – but actually it's completely hysterical and has no sense of historical perspective.
Karenin does come to be guided by jealousy; he grows bloated and rigid with it, confusing his personal distress with moral rectitude.
The progressive era still had a Victorian culture, with its rectitude and restrictions.
A man of devout religious conviction, Mr. Estes sang four traditional spirituals with stentorian rectitude.
Some have found Mr. Masur a prosaic interpreter more concerned with musical rectitude than spontaneity.
It will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude and resolve.
