Sentence examples for yet decent from inspiring English sources
God is loving, all-knowing and all-powerful, and yet decent people die young in horrible ways.
He is one of the misguided yet decent villains who are a feature of these tales: complicit in a planned "gigadeathcrime", he is still honourable and courageous.
And in the process of doing it, he has invented a new screen character - a guy equivocal, screwed up and yet decent.
There's not much camaraderie at Dexter's station house, but the show tries to convince us that his colleagues are crusty yet decent folks who happen to be missing a part of themselves, just like Dexter (or those hookers).
I liked Philomena best during this extended middle section, when it plays as a lovely, vibrant odd-couple comedy, pitting the diffident yet dogged working-class woman against the preening yet decent middle-class man.
Every square foot at Auschwitz was carefully calculated and measured, and the three square feet allotted to each prisoner — one-tenth of a typical barrack at the time — could be read as a sickening perversion of the Bauhaus idea of existenzminimum, an effort to calculate the exact amount of space needed to live a simple yet decent life.
It is the most approachable of Sōseki's novels, and the Japanese found pleasure in identifying themselves with the impetuous, reckless, yet basically decent hero.
For Verdi, "Simon Boccanegra" offered a chance to explore flawed, fatalistic and struggling characters, especially Simon, a former pirate, who is a willful, imperious yet essentially decent man.
I put it to him that consumers are not that interested in futurology - many of them want to know why they haven't yet got decent 3G, let alone 4G.
Emanuel Levy of Variety said that the actor "shines as the subversive yet basically decent lad whose cynicism may be the only sane reaction to a situation".
There is still not yet a decent "strategic plan for them to get good health care; no money is circulating; no jobs are being created so that poor people can find work," he said.
