Sentences with phrase «social propriety»

He chafed against the limits of social propriety by welcoming prostitutes and adulterers, crooks and outcasts into his gracious presence.

Prim and proper and British all over, the drama begins with a single incident that ripples out to color the rest of their lives, sexual anxiety and social propriety in direct competition with one another.

Discuss how Alice is frequently pulled between social propriety and Bohemian freedom?

James does not suppress his nature out of reverence for the Almighty but out of a sense of social propriety, conventionality, and a virtually aesthetic conception of how he wishes to appear to others and to himself.

If this movement spreads to society at large, perhaps the social propriety of social media could be called into question.

Radha is simply the personification of mahabhava, that «great emotional state» that is heedless of social proprieties and unbounded by conventions.

In a modest way, Christian hospitality cut against the grain of social propriety and courted controversy in the ancient world.

If the authentic self is defined largely through its autonomy from the collective standards of social propriety and aesthetic judgment, then conformity to collective expectations is a sign of the self's distortion and even corruption.

Each of its computer - controlled characters is governed by a deep model of social propriety.

But a simulation system that gives computer - controlled agents a sense of social propriety could change that, leading to more realistic interactions between humans and characters in games.

If a young child reached over and took food off your plate, you'd know that he didn't understand the social proprieties and not brand him a thief.

Thompson «s allegorical movement from forms of social propriety to figures of aesthetic obsolescence is inverted in his large format painting «The Production of an Unevenly Distributed Surplus Results from the Facticity of Format and Ground».

Nevertheless the Castellis «remained together for reasons that included joint financial interests, social propriety, but also, and not least, genuine friendship.»

, social propriety, private property, property values and all sorts of other bourgeois concerns.

Often there are characters that jump out at the visitors to scare them — and in the original dark ride, the tunnel of love, to perhaps allow the two people per row to clutch at each other in social propriety.

Reply Josh S March 8, 2011 at 2:36 pm Some people just have no sense of social propriety.