I was looking at it in terms of interrogative correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Books: Padgett Powell Has A Few Questions He'd Like To Ask] Reference
Frank, do you feel you're a victim of political correctitude run amuck here?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005] Reference
Some imp of perversity makes me think that it is a bit funny when two darlings of political correctitude seem to go up against each other. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
If you're right you will be assured of your correctitude, and if you're wrong you'll see a fixter-in-training beginning a lifelong love affair with fixed-gear cycling. From Wordnik.com. [BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!] Reference
We've grown so fearful of words, so deathly afraid of expressed points of view, that we no longer feel free to articulate them unemcumbered by the heavy hand of political correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [And the Primetime Emmy For Outstanding Bleeper in a Heavy-Handed Role Goes To...] Reference
Perhaps lost in this Oliver Miles tempest is the fact that Britain now has to suffer through yet another exercise in political correctitude of revisiting the Iraq question - hasn't enough ink been spilled in this ongoing soap opera?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
That reactionary curmudgeon Fred do NOT bother linking to him if you have any lingering political correctitude! has just written an essay titled "A Colony Again" in reaction to a WaPo piece on, well, graduate students who can't read. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
And they got small satisfaction out of the Bench, which refused altogether to perceive the relentless correctitude of the behaviour of either party, and reproved the eagerness of Mrs. Rusper — speaking to her gently, firmly but exasperatingly as. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
He himself was oppressed, I fancy, by his own correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
The German sense of correctitude was deeply shocked by this outbreak. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
This desire for correctitude is amusingly illustrated in the Outlook this week, which. From Wordnik.com. [Neologisms.] Reference
Under that lefty veneer, the youngsters hate political correctitude as much or more than we do. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics] Reference
So, in the interest of temporal and causal correctitude, here are six nonspectacular things about me. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
Next there followed a few reflections of a correctitude so remarkable that I have no choice but to quote them. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
He armed himself with a cold correctitude of politeness, and lowered the social temperature instead of raising it. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch] Reference
We only refer to it again because Mr. Balfour clearly thinks it necessary to vindicate his claims to correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [Neologisms.] Reference
I had seen, for the first time in my life, a churchwarden in Somerset, a local cheesemonger of appalling correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
These are people who will tell you that you have three choices: (1) Use his in all instances, and polticial correctitude be damned. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
South were especially proud of the unblemished correctitude of their social code, and Calhoun's wife put herself ostentatiously at the head of the movement. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
You're obviously a Canadian version of the caustic American suburbanite who equates emulation of witty commentators with intelligence and, worse, correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
What skeptics of the doga do not understand is that the "spin-off" is more about having fun and leaving for home relaxed than about the correctitude of the poses. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia News - Global] Reference
Virtually all of them are derogatory, and some of them are so mordantly mean that I can only lament their loss -- perhaps to a precursor wave of today's political correctitude?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4] Reference
M. Bazin, Academician and apostle of literary correctitude, is just the type of official mediocrity that the Alliance Française was fated to invite to London as representative of French letters. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
"It's gone astray," said the alleged governess, falling in with the excellent rule of life that the absent are always to blame; the luggage had, in point of fact, behaved with perfect correctitude. From Wordnik.com. [Beasts and Super-Beasts] Reference
It reminds me of a similar tactic which has often been practised in the wars of political correctitude and cults of incentivised outrage: namely, the sour insistence that any music of "dead white males". From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
One America is what we set out to create before, in recent years, political correctitude insisted on bilingualism and various ethnic groups began to demand differentiated treatment from the society at large. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
The Princess Charlotte had learned many things alien to her nature; but she had never learned that correctitude of deportment which is supposed to accompany all those born in the regal purple from the cradle to the grave. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
Ofili now all honoured millionaires whose work has been exhibited in major national galleries, won major prizes and received major international commissions and acclaim, it seems an absurd, and now unfair, political correctitude that has no place in art. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung -- and kept on flinging -- such considerations to the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
It reflects a common sense reaction to those among us who tell obvious lies, but in an authoritative manner in order to persuade the less informed and less discerning members of their audience as to their infallible correctitude - the sort of folks Jefferson referred to as our "noisiest authorities.". From Wordnik.com. [CapeCodToday Blog Chowder] Reference
In my last year at school I was asked by my Latin master to paint a mural in the Classics Room, and Craxton, releasing me from the irksome correctitude of drawing and perspective, allowing triangular veils of colour to translate landscape and figures into Virgilian unreality, was my inspiration and my mould. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
How was he to know that she had sat up most of the night in her little room over the gateway, drafting and redrafting this precious composition, until, having reduced it to soul-devastating correctitude, and, with aching eyes and head, made a fair and faultless copy, she had once more cried herself into miserable slumber?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rough Road] Reference
And they got small satisfaction out of the Bench, which refused altogether to perceive the relentless correctitude of the behaviour of either party, and reproved the eagerness of Mrs. Rusper -- speaking to her gently, firmly but exasperatingly as "My Good Woman" and telling her to "Answer the Question!. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
…or, since such grammatical correctitude wouldn’t really work with the rest of the construction, why not append the word used in the joke about not ending a sentence with a preposition?. From Wordnik.com. [dustbury.com » This scheme’s just six words long] Reference
A figure of correctitude entered. From Wordnik.com. [King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties] Reference
"I will be as calm as you like," she said, "I will behave with the utmost correctitude or whatever you call it, if you -- if they -- the soldiers -- the officer -- will let me see him -- as you promised -- up to the last, the very last. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference
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