Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas Bowdler (1754 - 1825), British editor, expurgator.]
Now propriety is another matter, a matter of judgment. From Wordnik.com. [NASA's Jim Hansen Engages In Personal Foreign Policy - NASA Watch] Reference
"Yet propriety is an essential element of gracefulness, Miss Evelyn.". From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
Blogathon actions are unusual, and the best way to ensure propriety is to do it through their system. From Wordnik.com. [Monday!] Reference
The passion to know, in the face of censure and propriety, is what advances our understanding of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Bonk by Mary Roach: Book summary] Reference
I'm just not sure what the propriety is of her being the administration spokesman when no one voted for her. From Wordnik.com. [01/18/2006] Reference
Victorian propriety is an important element of the story, the atmosphere to be upended over and over by slapstick action and sudden death. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
It has to do with pure propriety, which is something that you and your producers failed to show. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
You have not injured, hurt, or damaged anything, unless perhaps what men call propriety and good morals. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XV] Reference
"Ah!" cried the major, shaking his head, "that cold word propriety will kill him; he must be fostered, cherished, soothed.". From Wordnik.com. [The Spy] Reference
And with all his freedom and audacity, he ever kept within the limits of strict propriety, which is, perhaps, saying still more. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
Else the whole idea of propriety, that is, the only distinction between the just and chimerical in the arts, would be utterly lost. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)] Reference
He has the best part of the classicks by heart, and he has a happy talent in applying them with propriety, which is rarely to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica] Reference
However, my residual sense of "propriety" recoils at this. From Wordnik.com. [How dare you!] Reference
And, as an aside, does the word "propriety" have any meaning anymore?. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico News links on MexConnect] Reference
On the "propriety" issue, the wife of the prime minister of Britain has no official status. From Wordnik.com. [Discovering the Real Cherie] Reference
Now she talks about “the masses” and drops numbers in the hundred thousands with a kind of propriety, as if the crowd is hers to have. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-02] Reference
The kind of propriety a sophisticated society should demonstrate?. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
This 'propriety' was a great stumbling-block in the way of Confucius. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1] Reference
It is our absurd English ideas of "propriety" that make possible such things. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference
Congress spokesman Manish Tiwari agreed there is an issue of propriety which is involved. From Wordnik.com. [Zee News : India National] Reference
That is the kind of propriety that they teach out in these parts, is it? and the master came from. From Wordnik.com. [The Log School-House on the Columbia] Reference
It only hid itself under that sense of propriety which is responsible for so much of our good behavior. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
This image didn't contain any Virtual Box packages, or 'propriety' drivers that might 'poison' the kernel. From Wordnik.com. [PCLinuxOS-Forums] Reference
The report highlights MPs buying and renting homes from relatives and friends, an act which it says breached "propriety". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Sony's penchant for using "propriety" formats has bitten them so many times in the past you'd THINK they would have learned. From Wordnik.com. [News: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
She put the candle down; some faint suggestion about "propriety" troubled her, but she glanced at the old clock, and felt reassured. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others] Reference
But consider the matter of constitutional propriety. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Play 20 Questions] Reference
"It's more a question of propriety than safety," says Bangash. From Wordnik.com. [For The Love Of Pashtun Music] Reference
Why do we even pretend that sports-people are models of propriety?. From Wordnik.com. [Privacy, a Forgotten Virtue] Reference
Others express concern for the inmate's privacy or vaguer notions of propriety. From Wordnik.com. ['Live, From San Quentin.'] Reference
Much of it was a dry legal debate on the propriety of rummaging through the diaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture Of The Long Goodbye] Reference
Also, propriety trade laws don't require energy companies to disclose their ingredients. From Wordnik.com. [A Toxic Spew?] Reference
Citing a sense of Filipino propriety, she won't directly criticize Estrada or participate in public demonstrations. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Streets] Reference
Then Tychon gave Ken Lay an open letter questioning the propriety of a local jury judging what Tychon terms “a global crime.”. From Wordnik.com. [Houston, We Have a Problem] Reference
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