Sentences with phrase «genuinely decent person»

The wonderful thing about Maia, the emperor of the title, is that he is genuinely a decent person, and he navigates a sea of court intrigue and deliberate cruelty with enormously satisfying (and growing) competence without losing his warmth and decency.

He seems a genuinely decent person — something of a rarity in the film — which makes you wonder about his back story.

He doesn't seem remotely overawed by the situation, and as has been the case with every Klopp signing since he became Liverpool manager, he also seems a genuinely decent person, which is an added bonus.

If you don't believe that most people are genuinely decent people, this is probably the wrong business to be in.

Not exact matches

They don't just talk the talk, they are genuinely decent and kind people.

What matters to people in Tower Hamlets is genuinely affordable homes, support for vulnerable people and decent jobs with decent wages.

They're people who need not only to be decent writers who can guide you and teach you, the right critique group needs to be people you want to spend time with and who you genuinely enjoy their company.

They seemed like decent people just doing their work and they seemed genuinely interested in me and my career, they weren't all about fulfilling quotas.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.