| 单词 | rectitude |
| 例句 | Mr. Cunningham, a man of uncompromising rectitude, had given her a pint free of charge for having guessed his name yesterday, one of the tiny things she adored about Maycomb: people remembered their promises. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For the past three years he had devoted himself to rectitude and—I instantly saw now as he stooped out the door of the plane—growing a stomach. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Eugenicists such as Galton had hoped to select complex phenotypes—intelligence, height, beauty, and moral rectitude—as a biological shortcut to enrich genes for intelligence, height, beauty, and morality. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But I still could feel the power and rectitude that propelled her out of the projects and into homeownership. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The plantings in the gardens still retained their linearity and rectitude of bloom; but a chicken-house was mere ash, and the windows of the mansion were broken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I have seen men strive for rectitude, and in the end, take off the vizard of right to discover only self there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Its claims of public-spiritedness and moral rectitude obscured its essential nature as a terrorist organization seeking economic, social, and political power. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Propelled from the depths of her ignorance, silly imagining and girlish rectitude, she had come to call a halt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He shouted, his face red, and his eyes affixed on the essential rectitude of his goal. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And Harris plays the visionary with a doomed-prophet rectitude that recalls his turn as a Soviet scientist in “Chernobyl.” Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z As often happens in tales of transformation, power is eventually tempered with responsibility, and the cruel realities of existence cede to purity, virtue and rectitude. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z The only missing piece was the insight that, for all his rectitude, Chuck can lie when he is in a foul enough mood. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Finale: The Ultimate Betrayal 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Postlethwaite portrayed Guiseppe as a proud man, convinced of his moral rectitude, with all of the Troubles of Northern Ireland in his agonised face. Pete Postlethwaite obituary 2011-01-03T18:27:54Z Still, the tension between intellectual rectitude and hedonistic luxury persists in everything Moser designed. Art Review: ‘Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna,’ at Neue Galerie 2013-06-06T21:38:06Z Mr. Davies, white-haired and pink-complexioned, dressed in that great signifier of British rectitude — a cardigan — was sitting in the lobby of the British Film Institute here, animated and gesticulating. Terence Davies, Unfiltered and Bitter 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The first meaning, where character connotes a kind of moral or ethical rectitude, applies to Isaac’s somewhat defensive attempts to place himself on the right side of history. Sam Lipsyte on the Double Meaning of “Character” 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr Bridge may seem conventional and law-abiding, but his rectitude does not extend to prohibition, which he freely flouts and for which he expresses overt contempt. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z An ironclad patriarch of Puritan rectitude — his admirers likened him to Oliver Cromwell — Brown, when in his mid-30s, consecrated his life to destroying the institution of slavery. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: A Study in Contrasts 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z She’s appalled by the “solitary, joyless rectitude” of another enslaved Trojan who insists on covertly burying Priam and performing funeral rites at the grave. Review | Pat Barker’s ‘The Women of Troy’ continues her brilliant reassessment of the Trojan War 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z “Rye loved being a workaday guy,” Walter writes affectionately, and we sense that this determined son of immigrants will survive history’s conflagrations for old-fashioned reasons: rectitude, fidelity, sacrifice. Jess Walter’s New Novel Revisits a Turbulent Era Much Like Our Own 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z “Cairo Conspiracy” is a measured but unsparing portrait of corruption perpetrated by people who, across the board, are utterly confident of their own rectitude. ‘Cairo Conspiracy’ Review: There Are No Angels 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z With its right-rectangular rectitude and immutable sense of authority, the iconic attaché case is as rigid as the values of the corporate culture of which it remains a symbol. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z His Beethoven had heft and rectitude but it came across as ponderous and imposing, somehow above it all, rather like the hall itself. What I’ve Learned in 60 Years of Listening to the Philharmonic 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z His rectitude and dedication to duty were legendary, prompting Churchill to label him “the noblest Roman of them all.” A Marshall Plan for China? It Existed, but Even Marshall Couldn’t Pull It Off 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z That performance-capture veteran lent a soulful gravitas to the chimp Caesar, who leads the movie’s ape faction with such rectitude and grace that it makes the audience want to root against its own species. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘SMILF’ and ‘Cash Cab’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Fox endowed Dr. Bombay, a warlock, with a dotty rectitude and utter confidence, reinforced by his crisp and friendly British accent. Bernard Fox, Dr. Bombay on ‘Bewitched,’ Dies at 89 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He’s operating at a grave extreme of the narcissistic rectitude of his other roles. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z But for all its tasteful rectitude and obvious reverence for the movie, Mr. Woodruff’s “Autumn Sonata” exposes the overwrought, overexplicit Freudianism of the material, nearly tipping it into parody at times. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z She had that purity, that happy rectitude, zinging through her performances. In Hollywood’s golden age, no dancer rivaled Debbie Reynolds’s high-stepping joy 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But it’s not like Hollywood hasn’t been there before: the studio-system era exited at the same time as the Hays Production Code, which exerted a huge influence on moral rectitude of American movies. Is This Chinese City the New Hollywood? 2013-09-23T20:43:40Z William H. Parker, future head of the Los Angeles Police Department, is a man driven by alcohol, religion and a “lunatic rectitude.” ‘Perfidia,’ the new James Ellroy novel, starts the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor The comedy arises from the tension between low expectation and high, between Kenan Thompson’s exasperation, as the host, and Boseman’s blithe rectitude, between regular folks and royalty. It’s Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way. 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Popular misconception has it that Britain sank into moral rectitude in the Victorian era, and didn't emerge into the permissive light until 1963. Rude Britannia 2010-06-15T07:00:00Z But that Atticus knew only the American South of the 1930s and before, when neither society’s racist structure nor his moral rectitude had yet been challenged by the civil rights movement. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z You can see how comedy might have taken root for both of them in the discrepancy between the ideal of soldierly rectitude and human fallibility. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z Next, Yang bemoaned “the almighty dollar” that clouds our rectitude and recommended that we reconfigure GDP so that it measures health and sustainability, not just economic output and growth. We watched all 7 hours of CNN’s climate town hall so you didn’t have to 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Then, when the Bastille fell, he channeled that Roman rectitude into images of current events, and right into political life. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Dante might have longed to return to his native city, but I pined for the quiet rectitude of exile in the countryside. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “Common sense urges us to suppose that beneath the Victorians’ public postures of rectitude, formality and reserve, beneath the bustles and beards, lurked beings much like ourselves,” she writes. A Rebellious Victorian Woman Rescued From History’s Shadows 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z First, when Elizabeth and Darcy think of suitableness, rectitude, taste and everything but romantic love, we know that a great gift of passion lies beneath, all the stronger for being controlled. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z We still need to pay them homage to compensate for our own dispiriting rectitude. Arbitrage's villain takes advantage – why do we love it? 2013-03-04T13:07:12Z “With words as his only ammunition, Mandela fought his case patiently, on lined paper, his eloquence inseparable from his rectitude,” Charlayne Hunter-Gault writes in her review. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Her unrealistic approach to motherhood fuses guilt with innocence and hope with determined rectitude. Time of Our Lives, the Years That Made Us - TV review 2013-06-23T22:18:00Z The sidewalk dollar you leave behind, out of moral rectitude, for its original owner to claim likely will find the pocket of the next pedestrian in line. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it stealing to pick up a dollar from the sidewalk? 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Both the governors and the governed can overreach, convinced of their own rectitude and righteousness. Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Waterston, who exudes Yankee rectitude from every pore, is not particularly convincing as an unreformed sensualist of boundless appetite. | 'The Old Masters': Showdown at the Italian Villa, Easels Drawn 2011-01-28T03:01:21Z Although for some Christ is a figure of inflexible rectitude, with perfect hair and feet that never need washing, he was no respecter of authority, money, class or the law. 'Black Jesus' on Adult Swim has good-natured stoner humor 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z This is a neon-bright sign of corporate retrenchment in the face of protest, bad press and flashes of moral rectitude. Critic’s Notebook: Lil Wayne and Other Rappers Run Afoul of Propriety 2013-05-07T18:41:15Z Jonathan Kent's revival gets the balance just right – and reminds us that the piece's appeal lies in its joyously irresponsible defence of bohemian privilege against bourgeois rectitude. Private Lives – review 2012-09-30T16:45:01Z Comey’s actual rectitude is complicated by his fixation on the appearance of rectitude, his homey decency by smugness. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The abuse accusations exploded any pretense of rectitude and instigated one of the most stunning reversals of a public figure’s reputation that modern America has ever experienced. How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z His noble and saintly patience embodies the movie’s gentle vision of art as an innocent practice of harmlessly humble souls—as a sort of secular monasticism that comes with its own whiff of pious rectitude. Jim Jarmusch’s “Paterson” and the Myth of the Solitary Artist 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Then there's the question of the man uttering that monologue, sex-god bruiser Russell Crowe, who plays Robin with his customary blend of brooding, manly rectitude and ferocious hangover. "Robin Hood's" smoldering adult romance 2010-05-14T00:20:00Z Calvin’s city was glorified as the “city on the hill,” a shining example of what could be achieved through religious fervor, moral rectitude, and hard work. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z In the crucial opening scene Samantha Young emphasizes Cordelia’s defiant rectitude, giving little hint of the profound love underlying her reticence. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Moreover, it finds in ancient Rome a surprisingly probing and conclusive model for moral rectitude. 'Norma' and 'La Clemenza di Tito' make for a Roman feast 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z I’ll take that cacophony over the internal consistency of the Village — its oddly superior sense of rectitude, its sense that its middling architecture ought to put it at the top of the class — any day. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Elena's keen interest in defending and supporting Linda is really about justifying her sense of moral rectitude, and to explain how she feels about the youngest daughter she despises. "Little Fires Everywhere": An honest finale clears the smoke and reveals signs of hope 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z He is, after all, famous for his rectitude. Review: Sex, Lies and Vindication in a Most Timely ‘Measure for Measure’ 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z However, an air of moral rectitude still clung to him in a number of roles. Claude Laydu obituary 2011-08-07T14:50:04Z The extent to which Aloysius seeks to assert rectitude and common sense as essential values is beautifully embodied by Marshall, who never in her unforgiving mien asks for our sympathy; rather, she earns it. Review | ‘Doubt’ covered child abuse in the church a decade and a half ago. It’s still relevant. 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Republicans like to talk about fiscal rectitude, but Republican administrations since Ronald Reagan have been big spenders, bloating the deficit by splurging on the military and expensive wars. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z You can’t ask why trolls do what they do without asking why people argue in general, and people do that, says Morin, because they want to assert their own rectitude. Internet trolls can’t help themselves 2012-08-01T21:00:00Z Superman, his body flexed with a terrible rectitude, is hoisting a car over his head and crushing its front end against a boulder. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z And it is in great part a reflective of his rectitude. The walls are closing in on Trump, says “Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI” author We... 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z Made in advance of Hollywood’s strict Production Code, the two movies share daring premises compromised by studio rectitude. Julien Duvivier, a Gallic Auteur at Home, and Jacques Feyder, One Abroad 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z The vibranium in Captain America's shield comes from that land, and there's a poetic rectitude in the notion of someone with African ancestry wiedlng it. The forging of a Black Captain America by battling supremacy in "Falcon and the Winter Soldier" 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z And Salim, with his C-3PO rectitude as Father, makes an excellent foil. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Is TV’s Wildest Hallucination 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It is a university press style guide, and it has university press rectitude in its DNA. Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters? You should. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Toward the end of his life, with his bushy beard and high forehead and rumpled sense of rectitude, Hall resembled Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn as drawn by Edward Koren. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Whereas the original “Swan Lake” makes the hero, Prince Siegfried, rather laddish in his inclination to drink with his friends and evade princely responsibilities, this version’s Principal is a paragon of moral rectitude. Review: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Swan Lake’ Focuses on the Men 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z “Songs of Experience” merges personal reflections with tidings from the wider world, and it calls for compassion, empathy and rectitude. U2 Offer ‘Songs of Experience’ to a World That’s on Fire 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z That may sound funny, but in the past you almost needed a chisel to break through the double-face cashmere, not to mention the Balenciaga-like rectitude. Fashion Review: Carolina Herrera, Derek Lam, Diane von Furstenberg 2013-09-09T22:55:56Z Johnson interjects that “Common sense urges us to suppose that beneath the Victorians’ public postures of rectitude, formality and reserve . . . lurked beings much like ourselves. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z If you have that faith, Sánchez demonstrates, you don’t need a posture of rectitude and you don’t have to glow. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Ryan’s combination of brains, brawn and schoolboy rectitude, best embodied in the films by Chris Pine in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” is the carrot that pulls you through the mostly mediocre features. Review: Meet the New Jack Ryan, Same as the Old Jack Ryan 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But, on the phone with Karl Rove, he is busy with rectitude—as bland as the Man. “The Loudest Voice” Eviscerates Roger Ailes and Fox News 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z The narrator winds up not disobeying federal laws so much as failing to see why they outweigh his own ideas of respect and rectitude. Books of The Times: Rural Pride and Poverty and a Hen?s Empty Nest 2010-03-08T08:48:00Z Jeff Daniels did good work making Will McAvoy more than a mouthpiece, a few later episodes, which took Will into therapy, suggested a more complex drama, less certain of its rectitude. Vacation Robo-Post: The 2012 Cincy Awards 2012-12-26T10:45:07Z But Mr. Jha doesn’t stint on the melodrama, unabashedly pitting smirking corruption against heroic rectitude. | 'Aarakshan': A Battle for India?s Soul 2011-08-12T12:21:08Z Still, in intent “Clemenza” is an ethical homily: small wonder that its emphasis on regal magnanimity and moral rectitude would be deemed fit for an inaugural event. Music Review: Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-19T23:09:15Z Before this happened, I had all the makings of a fine young prig, with a highly developed and thoroughly inflexible sense of rectitude. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z “They constructed their class identity on the basis of their moral rectitude, in contrast to the ‘immoral’ poor and the ‘debauched’ aristocracy. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It's easy to think of Rosemary Butcher as figure of saintly rectitude, the austere, minimalist conscience of modern dance. Rosemary Butcher 2010-10-03T21:30:00Z How Shlomo moved from the stern rectitude demanded by his rabbinical training to embrace a more liberal philosophy is the story the musical laboriously unfolds. Theater Review: ‘Soul Doctor,’ a Musical About Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach 2013-08-16T02:00:40Z But in the pilot, Michael F. Vecchione, the senior prosecutor who has been the object of some of those complaints, is a model of rectitude as he directs a sting operation involving art thefts. Television Review: ‘Brooklyn DA’ Begins on Tuesday on CBS 2013-05-27T21:42:21Z The Prophet, here the sturdy, compelling bass Kevin Burdette, is a man of utter rectitude and eerily calm authority who sees his family as a persecuted minority, just good folks trying to practice their religion. Music Review: ?Dark Sisters,? by Nico Muhly - Review 2011-11-10T22:46:08Z In his state, machine politics has replaced the illusory rectitude of old boy aristocrats, but Willie is neither an aristocrat nor a machine pol; he’s a solo act. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Grisham is garrulous and funny when talking about himself, much more so than the tone of rectitude in some of his books might suggest. Plot Twist! John Grisham’s New Thriller Is Positively Lawyerless 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Awlaki preached rectitude but conducted his private life on other terms. Review: Scott Shane’s ‘Objective Troy,’ on Killing the American Jihadist Anwar al-Awlaki 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z Small and slim though she is, particularly in comparison with Mr. Jones’s commanding presence, Ms. Tyson transmits Fonsia’s poise and rectitude, which reveal themselves in her firm upbraiding of Weller for his foul language. Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Shuffle Emotions in ‘The Gin Game’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It's a world in which political rectitude masks a failure to confront the inner demons that Sarah Connolly's self-lacerating Medea is driven to unleash. Medea – review 2013-02-17T17:10:39Z It followed with the certainty of Victorian rectitude that advanced societies had an obligation to assist the backward, to civilise the savage, a moral duty that played well into the needs of empire. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Have decades of murder, rectitude, David Soul cameos, pre-war pocketwatches and rostrum shots of bludgeoned colonial types in blood-spattered plus fours finally taken their toll on his famously exacting little grey cells? Agatha Christie's Poirot: time to bid adieu 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z What is the virtuous relationship between personal loyalty and abstract moral rectitude? The Elephant Keepers' Children by Peter Høeg – review 2012-10-05T21:55:11Z Mr. Bedford’s stiff posture and serene bustling suggest a woman bearing her rectitude like a suit of armor and her trials with the surety of the righteous. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z Then, as the tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock wove small, asymmetrical patterns around her, Ms. Serpa started to sing, using no words but maintaining the sense of inquiry and rectitude that her reading had established. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Stevens's hollow rectitude and meticulous self-deception are related in the first person, and for the duration of the book, the reader inhabits his psyche fully. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z His prize was Captain America, a guy whose moral rectitude makes him the punch line of jokes that Johnny Storm would have made. The Superhero Franchise: Where Traditional Movie Stardom Goes to Die 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z It was superb theatre, with the added benefit of moral rectitude. Pac-12 rewind: UW and Oregon dominate, WSU meets the moment 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z As a result of this independence and rectitude, Romney has become a pariah among his GOP Senate colleagues and a target of seething anger and threats of violence from his constituents. Mitt Romney gets out of Dodge | Horsey cartoon 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Franklin was less concerned with unfailing rectitude than Washington, yet he also lived by a code of public service and personal honor that made him one of the most celebrated men of his times. Moral leadership is history in the GOP | Horsey cartoon 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Another country that meets NATO’s planning goals is Germany — Europe’s model of fiscal rectitude and routinely flailed by former U.S. NATO will boost defense spending to help back Ukraine but the math is tricky. Just ask Luxembourg 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z But Judge Thapar says he has no doubts whatsoever about the rectitude of those on the court, nearly all of whom he knows personally. With High Court Under Fire, a Top Federal Judge Suggests More Sunlight 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Los Angeles needed a man on a white horse, somebody to clean things up, or at least give the place a sheen of rectitude. They weren't caped crusaders, but these Angelenos fought corruption and won 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Scott has pointedly declined to criticize Mr. Trump head-on, preferring oblique references to his own rectitude. Tim Scott Begins Presidential Campaign, Adding to List of Trump Challengers 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z He was the inventor of “Realpolitik”: a political philosophy that insisted on being completely pragmatic and realistic, rather than pursuing empty goals like “glory” or pulling punches in the name of moral rectitude. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Victory Day, Russia’s most important secular holiday, lauds two tenets that are central to the country’s identity: military might and moral rectitude. War shadows Victory Day, Russia’s integral holiday 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z “Even in Seattle, where political correctness feeds at the twin troughs of good manners and social rectitude, satirist Mark Russell has a following,” John Levesque, TV critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, wrote in 1997. Mark Russell, political satirist with a star-spangled piano, dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z We knew that Special Counsel John Durham, a man whose reputation was one of seriousness and rectitude, had only brought two prosecutions but failed to win convictions in both. Barr blows up Durham probe to save Trump 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z All week members of the Republican majority have been chest-beating about how, thanks to the new House rules they devised, they will restore rectitude to federal budgeting. Column: Republicans being the party of fiscal conservatism? Don't believe it for a minute. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Many novels written around the turn of the twentieth century critiqued the hypocrisy of social elites and their pretensions to rectitude. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The district attorney was the picture of a gray-haired eminence, a figure of rectitude in a circus of a city. Review | The extraordinary lives and lasting influence of the Morgenthaus 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Whether the plan works, in terms of convincing the markets we should see pretty soon, but if Labour is on board, that adds some more ballast to the ship financial rectitude. Will chancellor Jeremy Hunt's plan to fix the UK economy work? 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But Jackson’s famous commitment to personal rectitude gave them special resonance for Fairbanks. Review | In post-apartheid South Africa, dashed hopes and moral struggles 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z When Trump was elected and Republicans took charge again, those taxes were repealed, adding some Obamacare debt to the nation’s tab and once again rendering Republican claims to fiscal rectitude hollow. Column: Republicans being the party of fiscal conservatism? Don't believe it for a minute. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z A man once celebrated for his rectitude and incorruptibility spewed one lie after another. Perspective | Giuliani had ‘no fear gene.’ That led to his predicament. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z That they suddenly found the spine and rectitude to storm out on jobs they were going to have for only a few more weeks anyway? Opinion | These Jan. 6 witnesses are doing the right thing now. They’re not heroes. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Radicalism wrapped in fiscal rectitude may be a tactic that's repeated. Keir Starmer's search for a vision goes on 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z For doctrinaire conservatives in the Scalia tradition, however, legitimacy hinges on interpretive rectitude, even more, at times, than stare decisis — the principle that courts should stick to precedent for the sake of legal stability. Opinion | Overturning Roe isn’t what a partisan Republican would do 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z To some Texans, the Bush family name is a badge of integrity, harking back to a bygone era of rectitude and respectful political debate. Bush Dynasty, Its Influence Fading, Pins Hopes on One Last Stand in Texas 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z A book that elides the thrill of acquisition for the appearance of rectitude is not only a lie but also a boring one. Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z There are things about his domestic life that make him seem less than a picture of perfect rectitude as well. Ben Franklin was the most famous American of his era. Ken Burns' new doc shows why 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Like the Duke of Hastings, Anthony eventually gets the Mr. Darcy treatment; his outward callousness is revealed to belie an inner softness and a misplaced ethical rectitude. Review | ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 is less steamy. It’s also more relatable. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z It is jarring at first, hearing those types of words coming from the mouths of cowboys, given all those years of “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke” and the almost Puritan rectitude of John Wayne and Gary Cooper. The 75 best TV shows on HBO Max right now, according to our experts 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Since coming to power, Mr. Putin has also made Moscow into a paragon of fiscal rectitude, and, according to the former aide, he explored the idea of installing an American-style two-party system in Russia. Opinion | Putin Wants a Clash of Civilizations. Is ‘The West’ Falling for It? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z The coalition’s third party, the Free Democrats, stands for fiscal rectitude but called the increased defense spending “an investment in our future.” Opinion | The West gives Putin a refresher course in physics — and judo 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z His own sense of rectitude, Flores said in 2019, shortly before his mother, Maria, died of breast cancer, had been instilled by her unwavering values. ‘All He’s Looking For Is a Sincere Shot’ 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Deviations from their perceived immaculate rectitude were not tolerated. Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi on 'A Hero' and his own complicated feelings on fame in Iran 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Too often, his critics noted, Poitier was cast as a pillar of rectitude, a figure of unimpeachable morals and manners who could gently counter — by to some extent accommodating — the virulent racism of white America. Sidney Poitier was more than a symbol. He was one of the great movie stars, full stop 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Tutu, a Nobel Peace prize winner widely revered across racial and cultural divides in South Africa for his moral rectitude and principled fight against white-minority rule, died on Sunday aged 90. South Africa's anti-apartheid hero Tutu to lie in state at St.George's Cathedral 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z This evasion and shiftiness in a process that is supposed to reek of rectitude is an embarrassment for the state. An ‘A’ in evasion and shiftiness 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Fishback, said that his “unswerving moral rectitude” made him an exceptional soldier and academic but that in recent years he was overcome by paranoia that fellow academics were plagiarizing him and undermining his work. Ian Fishback, Army officer and whistleblower against detainee abuse, dies at 42 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z "This is a clear sign of the political, social and moral rectitude of the German people, and our political class would do well to become aware of it with great humility," it says. Papers gripped by Germany's era of uncertainty 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Claiming the mantle of fiscal rectitude, Republicans stood firm against an increase in the federal borrowing limit. Congress is hurtling toward a debt showdown despite the public’s waning interest in the government’s red ink 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z He is regarded as one of baseball’s most outstanding citizens, with an image of humility and rectitude. Gambling on Trevor Bauer Is Not the Dodger Way 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Even some conservatives say Republican inconsistency is undermining the party’s case for fiscal rectitude. As Senate Vote Nears for $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Deficit Takes a Back Seat 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z While the budget blueprint is expected to rely on only Democratic votes, enough Republicans need to be convinced of the infrastructure deal’s fiscal rectitude to clear the 60-vote filibuster threshold. Lawmakers Grapple With Nagging Infrastructure Detail: How to Pay for It 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z To be sure, Barr’s rectitude that day doesn’t excuse his earlier kowtowing to Trump or his politicization of the Justice Department. Opinion | America owes thanks to Trump’s lawyers — even William Barr 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z Harriman then and even today has a stiff culture of rectitude that’s chemically averse to the speculators or the more nakedly ambitious people. Column: As Wall Street changed, one historic firm stood fast — for the better 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z No one doubted his rectitude or his willingness to break with his party. Opinion | John Warner was the kind of Republican the country needs now 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The case against the kangaroo business brings with it a sense of rectitude that transcends borders. U.S. Activists Try to Halt an Australian Way of Life: Killing Kangaroos 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Eisenhower’s presidential library gives the town a hint of prairie rectitude, though it had a pre-Ike past as the end of the Chisholm Trail for 1860s cattle drovers. Kansas agency’s lost $72K: 4 years of probing, few answers 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Beau embodied the decency, rectitude and an impressive public service record comparable to his father’s. Review | Hunter Biden’s singular memoir of grief and addiction 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z House Ways and Means Committee and a man esteemed as a pillar of Bible Belt rectitude and respectability. Fanne Foxe, ‘Argentine Firecracker’ at center of D.C. sex scandal, dies at 84 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z So, who is correct — as a matter of political tactics, not moral rectitude — McCarthy or McConnell? Opinion | McConnell and McCarthy are playing different games with Trump. They might both win. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z A reputation for diligence and rectitude cast them as the unsung heroes of a diaspora that went on to conquer US business and politics. Bad Bridgets: podcast reveals Irish emigrants' tales of poverty and prison 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z “We — who stand aside in imagined rectitude and let the mad dogs that run in every society slide their leashes from our hand, and spring,” Patterson wrote. Perspective | Trump has helped keep the flames of hatred alive. It’s up to us to make sure the flames go out. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z “Just because they are other countries’ legal institutions, does that make them the owners of justice and rectitude.” Mexico says no more US trials for corrupt officials 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Wirecard’s demise also embarrassed the German government, which prides itself on a reputation for rectitude and reliability, amid criticism that authorities ignored red flags. Former Wirecard boss Braun to be quizzed by German lawmakers 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Last guarantee: he won't waste a minute getting his wrecking operation underway, while "his" party will posture as the paragon of financial rectitude. The nightmare that Joe Biden could inherit 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z “There’s a rectitude to this picture and a lack of arrogance while still being very confident that I think exemplifies that attitude that these republicans in Florence felt about themselves,” he says. Portrait by Renaissance master expected to soar past $80M 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But as piqued as tensions were, Cameron radiated confidence and a bedrock belief in the rectitude of the law. Ky. attorney general on Breonna Taylor case: ‘I understand as a Black man,’ but acting on outrage ‘is no justice’ 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z There was nothing “notorious” about this woman of rectitude who wore a variety of lace collars on the bench and often appeared in public in elegant gloves. Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Few details about her resignation were disclosed on Friday evening, even as associates portrayed her as both a circumspect person and a prosecutor of rectitude. Top Aide in Review of Russia Inquiry Resigns From Justice Dept. 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z They believed in fiscal rectitude, free trade, limited executive power. Opinion | The Republican Party announces that it stands for nothing 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z There is a growing perception that our 45th commander in chief, never known for his intellectual acuity or moral rectitude, is unfit to lead the nation in this moment of extreme crisis. Fearing jail and facing defeat, Trump will not leave office quietly 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Topaze’s rectitude proves his undoing, however, when he refuses to accommodate his social-climbing boss in altering the poor marks of a haughty baroness’ grandson, then gets outed for his attraction to Ernestine. Review: 'Mr. Topaze,' Peter Sellers' directing debut, emerges from the star's vault 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The possessive pronoun always jarred with the spirit of civ-mil rectitude, even before it became evident how literally Trump interpreted it. Why Trump loves the US military – but it doesn't love him back 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Dr. Coburn sought to establish himself in Washington as a voice of moral rectitude. Tom Coburn, unyielding ‘Dr. No’ of the House and Senate, dies at 72 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Liberal Democrats tend to see it as a fuddy-duddy concern that obstructs ambitious new programs; the Republicans under President Trump have shed the fig leaf of fiscal rectitude in favor of all-out tax-cutting. Opinion | The coronavirus is a reminder that Fed independence is vital 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Graham, impressed by the young man’s display of rectitude, gave him his blessing to renege on the deal. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z As I've written here before, Baker's reputation for rectitude was overblown. Lamar Alexander's starring role: Why a retiring Tennessee senator took the fall for Trump 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z After years of portraying characters notable for their sense of somewhat abashed rectitude, he’s virtually unrecognizable as a gleefully skeevy blackmailer. ‘The Gentlemen’ review: Lock, stock and a barrel of bloody good fun 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Another surprise is Robert Mueller, usually described as a pillar of competence and rectitude. Review | ‘Losers,’ ‘dopes’ and ‘scum’: Inside Trump’s war with his own advisers 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Trump abandoned fiscal rectitude long ago, of course. The Future of Working-Class Conservatism in the U.K. and the U.S. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z After returning from four years in Paris at the end of 2000, Mr. Rohatyn, a compact man of sober, occasionally stern rectitude, settled into the role of wise eminence. Felix G. Rohatyn, Financier Who Piloted New York’s Rescue, Dies at 91 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z Is it any wonder that Musk believes in his own moral rectitude, when everyone around him is apparently paid to agree? Musk, Bloomberg, Bezos: America's aristocracy of tech robber barons lives by its own rules 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Aside from her business arrangement, offering gifts to journalists is equally lax in guiltless rectitude. Column: It's time to throw a challenge flag on NFL and college football broadcasts 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z After the Conservatives’ disastrous campaign in 2017, Hammond complained that his party had not focused enough on the economy as an issue, contrasting a spendthrift Labour party with Tory fiscal rectitude. Labour derides £1.2tn Tory costing claims as 'work of fiction' 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z But for some reason, Barr's affiliation with Bush was seen as a sign of his rectitude, so he was easily confirmed. Yes, it's this bad: Conspiracy-hunter Bill Barr is roaming the globe under Trump's orders 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Hjorth seems to be suggesting that rectitude can be the enemy of justice, and that neutrality can be a form of self-dealing. The Norwegian Novel That Divided a Family and Captivated a Country 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Germans are immensely proud of their fiscal rectitude and their manufacturing prowess, as they should be. The world needs Germans to be a little more selfish - The Washington Post 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Amazon tried to use a quotation by the author — renowned for his moral rectitude — to suggest he was a sleaze in favor of illegal collusion. Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Rather, it was one that revealed the wide variation in human societies: the diverse vocabulary of propriety, custom and rectitude. Perspective | The anthropologists who upended the ‘science’ of white supremacy 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Principles are important, but they can also be a distancing mechanism that permits us to maintain an aura of rectitude even as we go around behaving in ways that aren’t right at all. Opinion | What Alan Dershowitz taught me about morality 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z At its heart is the false assumption that superiority in resources and military prowess equates to a superiority in intellectual power and moral rectitude. Boris Johnson’s reckless Britain-above-all policies threaten peace in Ireland | Richard McMahon 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But what brand of conservatism would elevate wealth above rectitude, decency and concern for the common good? Opinion | Republican leaders are shilling for a bigot 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps, with poetic rectitude, the elements conspired to carry along Lowry, Ireland’s own, playing in the first Open Championship on the island since 1951. British Open 2019: Shane Lowry's day in the sun was a wind-and-rain horror story for the rest of the field - Golf Digest 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z “He more than any single living person is responsible for the GOP’s cowardly betrayal of its historic commitment to fiscal rectitude,” former Reagan budget director David Stockman told NPR via email. Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Now, when he finally spoke, Mueller did so in a voice thinned by age, but strong in its controlled rectitude. Mueller speaks for the ‘only time.’ Many Americans didn’t hear an ending. 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z “He envisions himself, correctly, as a man of great rectitude, and apolitical, and he doesn’t want to participate in anything he might regard as a political spectacle.” Mueller 'wants to testify in private' to Congress, Democrat says – live 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The Army Corps, with a reputation for rectitude, discipline and impartiality, is the designated contracting authority for the border barrier project, developing specifications, awarding contracts and ensuring legal and regulatory compliance. ‘He always brings them up’: Trump tries to steer border wall deal to North Dakota firm 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Their dedication to the Constitution and fiscal rectitude seems to have evaporated on the day Barack Obama left office. Yes, Justin Amash is an impeachment hero. Don't expect other Republicans to follow him 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The silence and the lack of moral rectitude and not standing up to these kinds of hateful people will only hasten the demise of a democratic and multicultural society. How Trump's rhetoric fuels anti-Semitic violence: Tim Wise on "radical Christian terrorism" 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z That reputation for rectitude was largely responsible for the bipartisan support that greeted Mueller’s appointment as the special counsel in 2017. Analysis | With Mueller silent, Barr interprets the special counsel’s report — to the advantage of Trump 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Obsessive, dramatic, and emotional, he has an unwavering belief in his own rectitude. Thomas Drake vs. the N.S.A. 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z They must also possess intellectual and moral rectitude. Review | Every report on past presidential scandal was a warning. Why didn’t we listen? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Mueller’s history of public service, reticence and rectitude provided a sharp contrast to Trump’s life of tabloid shenanigans, bombast and garish wealth. Report submitted, Robert Mueller ends Russia investigation in silence 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Except that after two years of unified government under the party that formerly claimed to care about fiscal facts and rectitude, the nation faces a $1 trillion deficit during brisk growth and full employment. Opinion | The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z With Trump there is no pretense of respectability or rectitude. Opinion | Under Trump, the Swamp Is Draining 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z They helped keep inmates alive and provided the appearance of medical rectitude. CIA doctors considered using 'truth serum' on terror suspects 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z To use the language of Walter Benjamin, these podcasts offer the sometimes lurid satisfactions of story bolstered by the apparent rectitude of information. How Podcasts Became a Seductive—and Sometimes Slippery—Mode of Storytelling 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z But now there’s a rising debate over whether this state needs more than Mr. Walker’s unbending rectitude. Democrats Want to Beat Scott Walker. But the Wisconsin Economy Is a Hurdle. 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z At a time when partisanship filters public perception of nearly everything that happens in political life, the supreme court retains an aura of non-partisan rectitude that the other branches of government long ago squandered. The cost of Kavanaugh's victory? The legitimacy of the US supreme court | Andrew Gawthorpe 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Republicans could push through Mr. Kavanaugh as planned, while his moral rectitude and the procedural legitimacy of his confirmation remain in question. Opinion | Yet another reason to call the FBI 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z However, what provides more insight into a person’s moral rectitude is, arguably, not what he did as a minor but how he handles such sins once he has developed into a mature adult. Opinion | Why should we believe Kavanaugh? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Its diligence and rectitude will surprise no one. The Starr Report got a president impeached 20 years ago, and Ken Starr wants to remind you why 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In this new digital public sphere, it is always possible to discover content that reinforces one’s ideological position and that can be used as evidence of one’s moral rectitude. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s a typical Comey answer: emotionally self-aware; self-critical; striving to be fair and to see his opponent’s point of view; insistent on logic and, after all that, still convinced of his own ultimate moral rectitude. James Comey: 'You stare at children crying – what kind of people are we?’ 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z But he’s hardly an avatar of moral rectitude and decency. Opinion | Comparing Barr’s fate to Bee’s fails on its face 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Then he put his own reputation for rectitude at risk by pre-emptively exonerating Hillary Clinton on the email issue, infuriating federal agents who were still investigating the case. Opinion | Obama – Just Too Good for Us 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z While he dined with students in the cafeteria and advised them on their futures, he was also the brusque enforcer of medical rigor and rectitude. Donald W. Seldin, who built UT Southwestern into a medical powerhouse, dies at 97 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z But another element of the business model — evangelical broadcasting’s aura of rectitude — was about to take a hit. How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z On the other hand, we have in Donald Trump, a man of equally immense absence of any moral rectitude who feels that the Justice Department should work for him. In Interview, Comey Calls Trump ‘Morally Unfit’ and a ‘Stain’ on All Around Him 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Ryan did not have to wait for the November election to confirm what Trump has done to the speaker’s own reputation for intellectual depth and rectitude. Opinion | Paul Ryan implodes his party — ahead of schedule 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z This control by mass opinion, fueled by social media and instant news, is more effective than silencing an artist through imprisonment, as it bears the sheen of moral rectitude. The Case of Hong Kong’s Missing Booksellers 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The Left is too ensconced in its own vision of its supposed moral rectitude to acknowledge this obvious fact.” Brian Stelter, CNN host, warns Laura Ingraham boycott pushed by David Hogg part of ‘dangerous’ trend 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z We have all been instructed by Trump himself to disregard schoolhouse virtues of honesty, dignity and rectitude. Opinion | Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump’s doom 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z America’s models of rectitude are clearly scaring the daylights out of politicians who’ve been blithely ignoring the sensible middle. Middle America must lead on guns with a fierce grace 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Paul’s ideological opponents were not buying his fiscal rectitude either. Budget deal approved in Senate 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Someone with rectitude needs to stand up and be counted. F.B.I. Condemns Push to Release Secret Republican Memo 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But to me, his presidency represents moral rectitude despite the political consequences. Why Lyndon Johnson, a truly awful man, is my political hero | Jack Bernhardt 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z As a matter of principle, it’s Republicans like Mulvaney who are the deficit hawks, caring deeply about the fiscal rectitude of the federal government. With government shutdown, Republicans reap what they sow 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z The state’s largely conservative voters found his coarse language, treatment of women and contempt for many immigrants and refugees to be anathema to a faith centered on rectitude and forged by exile. ‘I’m Running,’ Romney Says Privately, but as a Trump Friend or Foe? 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z That pillar of journalistic rectitude, the New York Times, used to have a rule banning “unattributed derogatory quotes”, except where the source was specifically checked and revealed to the editor. We laugh at Russian propaganda. But Hollywood history is just as fake | Simon Jenkins 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z In the first place, Dr. Dooley was not the paragon of Catholic rectitude that he was made out to be. An excerpt from 'Road Not Taken' 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Hatch, long the picture of conservative rectitude, was once a conscientious legislator, even partnering with Ted Kennedy when he thought poor kids were getting a raw deal. Opinion | Run, Mitt, run 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z This doesn’t seem to matter anymore, even to Republicans who built reputations as champions of moderation, openness and rectitude. Opinion | Republicans are joining a festival of corruption 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Watson was a Southern Baptist deacon who neither drank nor danced, as Time magazine reported, and “invariably wears a vest and a buttoned-up air of rectitude.” W. Marvin Watson Jr., a top White House aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, dies at 93 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Then as now, folks on both sides of the issue were utterly certain of the rectitude of their opinions. Why the Tally of the Church Shooting’s Victims Included a Fetus 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Venezuela’s surprising rectitude as a debtor stems from an unlikely confluence of factors. How long can Venezuela avoid default? 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z “This is the court of public opinion and Trillanes has scored points. He is threatening the shield of moral rectitude the President has put forward.” How Antonio Trillanes Came to Take on Rodrigo Duterte 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z Liam Neeson comes across as a pillar of beleaguered rectitude in the role of Mark Felt, the FBI official dubbed Deep Throat, whose leaks to the press helped blow the whistle on the Watergate conspiracy. ‘Mark Felt’ review: Liam Neeson stands tall as Deep Throat 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Do you remember the days when Republicans claimed to be deficit hawks, opposing President Barack Obama’s economic agenda solely because of their unwavering devotion to fiscal rectitude? Ryan abandons deficit reduction rhetoric 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Of her “vigorous virtues” – self-sufficiency, independence, rectitude – almost none. Dunkirk offers a lesson – but it isn’t what Nigel Farage thinks | Zoe Williams 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. McConnell was unhappy that Mr. Portman seemed to be abandoning his previous stance on fiscal rectitude by opposing Medicaid cuts in the bill. Republicans Struggle to Marshal Votes for Health Care Bill 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Obtaining a high grade on the K.C.P.E., which is seen as a sign of a child’s industriousness, intelligence and moral rectitude, means a student may continue on to high school. Can a Tech Start-Up Successfully Educate Children in the Developing World? 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Former FBI Director James Comey testifying under oath before the Senate Intelligence Committee was some combination of Captain America and Pope Francis for plain moral rectitude. Republicans indefensible in their defense of Trump 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Why telegraph feebleness to Trump, his lawyers and a skeptical public if he’s secure in his rectitude? Opinion | Boy Scout James Comey is no match for Donald Trump 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Cooper is, on one level, an old-fashioned Hollywood hero marked by boyish enthusiasm and unflagging moral rectitude, a point driven home in the series pilot when he’s mistakenly called Gary Cooper. Kyle MacLachlan and David Lynch excited to collaborate again in the return of 'Twin Peaks' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z But Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein took that decision out of their hands on Wednesday with his appointment of Mr. Mueller, considered a rare model of Washington rectitude. Cloud of Special Investigation Could Linger Over Trump’s Presidency 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Behind one man, a celebrity, there is a cult of personality; behind the other, a bureaucrat, there is a cult of rectitude. What Will Become Of Roger Ailes’s Fox News? 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z But much of the reaction from Congress, from Republicans and Democrats alike, focused on that investigation and the need to restore public confidence in the rectitude of the FBI and law enforcement. Tuesday night firing of Comey: ‘Nixonian’ or uniquely Trumpian? 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But that image for personal and professional rectitude largely unraveled amid his handling of the Clinton investigation, leaving him with few friends in either political party. A sudden fall for an FBI director once seen as above the fray and untouchable 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z However, enough are likely to cling to their fiscal rectitude to cause a problem for the president. 5 Hurdles to the Adoption of Trump’s Tax Plan This Year 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z With his starchy sense of rectitude, Whitehouse seems offended as much as horrified by what’s happened to the government his family has long served. What Makes Sheldon Whitehouse Angry? 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z People who know Meyer describe a man of generosity and rectitude, Morel says. ‘Wavelet revolution’ pioneer scoops top maths award 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z As far as Washington was concerned, he was fighting in the name of goodness, honesty, rectitude, decency. George Washington, Trump, and the End of Humility 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z But his three year tenure as the bank’s leader was marked by repeated setbacks in a new environment that favored financial rectitude, damaging the reputations of both Deutsche Bank and Mr. Jain. Anshu Jain to Join Cantor Fitzgerald as President 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z The unfolding bonanza belies the country’s reputation for fiscal rectitude, forged over a decade spent admonishing its neighbors to cut spending and reduce public debts. In Spite of Thrifty Image, Germany Races to Raise Pensions 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z McDonough is the picture of rectitude: the ramrod posture, the trimmed white hair, the ashen mien of a bishop who has missed two meals in a row. Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z I'm the same guy, though, which tells me that it's my wiring, not my moral rectitude, that controls the kind of temptations that threaten me. Genetic Heart Disease Risk Eased by Healthy Habits, Study Finds 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z These are people of great competence and rectitude. The Closer: Michelle Obama 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z The FBI director who prides himself on moral rectitude and a squeaky-clean reputation is being criticized from all sides for lobbing a stink bomb into the center of the presidential race. James Comey: The do-the-right-thing guy in email maelstrom 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z If he is guilty of anything, they say, it may be a sort of moral hubris, a desire to put his rectitude and incorruptibility on public display. James Comey Role Recalls Hoover’s F.B.I., Fairly or Not 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z There are good historical reasons for this passionate adherence to fiscal rectitude, rooted in the causal link between deficits, runaway inflation, and the rise of the Nazis. The Failure of the Euro 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died Thursday at the age of 88, reigned for 70 years with almost legendary rectitude and devotion to his country's development. Thailand's next king lives in shadow of revered father 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died Thursday at the age of 88, reigned for 70 years with almost legendary rectitude and devotion to his country’s development. Thailand's next king lives in shadow of revered father 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z By comparison, George W. Bush was a gentleman, a man of probity and wit, a sage and a man of great moral rectitude. 2016 election: Time-traveling through the GOP's history 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z For Churchill, conscience, rectitude and sincerity were the shield with which a nation could “march always in the ranks of honor.” Churchill on Trump and Clinton 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Now he sanctions the killing of other people’s children, on the grounds that drug use is unforgivable moral laxity, robbing men and women of their rectitude, and the country of its silver. The Killing Time: Inside Rodrigo Duterte's Drug War 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Progressives are flogging California’s plan as a prototype, and such paragons of fiscal rectitude as Illinois, Oregon, Connecticut and Maryland are following its road to retirement serfdom. California Has an IRA for You 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z How often does one see 'unbeaten', 'sagacious', 'astuteness', 'figurine' and 'rectitude' all in one sentence, let alone one tweet? Verbose tweet inspires linguistic laughter from Indians - BBC News 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Your response is to hope against hope that someone will persuade Trump to feign rectitude for the next three months. Trump will leave a lasting stain on Republicans 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The result is, Ball writes, “an intimate connection between hydraulic engineering, governance, moral rectitude and metaphysical speculation that has no parallel anywhere in the world”. China: A hydrological history : Nature : Nature Research 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z “Brazil sees with concern and rejects any attempt to discredit its institutions, or to question the rectitude by which a constitutional and republican legal instrument, such as the impeachment process — is implemented,” he wrote. U.S. Congress members express 'deep concern' over threats to democracy in Brazil 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Films like “The Innocents,” which is so rich in substance, moral complexities and clashes of faiths and rectitude, are a rarity, and should be rightly celebrated. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Innocents’ shows horror of post-World War II Poland 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The episode elevated Comey to legal hero, a picture of rectitude who followed the rule of law above party politics and personal risk. On Clinton’s emails, no ‘reasonable person’ can disagree with James Comey 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Thanks to Banks’ New-England rectitude and his fine way with words, this isn’t as baroque or as self-serving as it sounds. ‘Voyager:’ island-hopping with author Russell Banks 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z For the record, I used to be real big on moral rectitude. Hey, Siri: What's the best way to survive a summer like this? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Their efforts were aided in no small part by the king's charisma, rectitude and genuine devotion to seeing his nation develop. Thai king marks 70 years on the throne - from hospital bed 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z No more of that politically correct rubbish about civility, mutual respect, reasoned argument, honesty, policy sophistication, ethical rectitude and basic decency. In the age of Trump, a plea for pluralism 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z He admitted having an affair with the child's mother and paying for the child's upbringing but said his public rectitude should outweigh his private trespasses. Sex, Lies and Campaigns 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z All of that authority, know-how, gravitas, good posture and moral rectitude — it seemed so important, so adult, so American. Is Trump ‘Presidential’? Is Anyone? 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z In an attempt to provide moral rectitude these sentences do nothing but destroy the lives of the transgressors. New York Today: A Possibility of Prison 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z His self-serious moralizing and the ostentatiousness of his characters’ rectitude make Richardson difficult to embrace. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In a country riddled with corruption and division, the retired general was distinguished for his rectitude and efficiency. Files Suggest Honduran Police Leaders Ordered Killing of Antidrug Officials 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's this transparency - a sense that what you see is what you get - that accounts for their gruff rectitude. In search of Donald Trump's Scottish roots - BBC News 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In an obituary, Edward De Robertis, who had been Sasai’s mentor at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote, “Yoshiki was a man of rectitude and a scientist of high personal integrity.” The Stem-Cell Scandal 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The Bush family is trying to build its legacy not around policy but around character—a particular idea of service and rectitude, a devotion to decency in public life. Jeb Bush’s Crisis of Character 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z At any other time, Bernie Sanders would be an impossible candidate — unfamiliar and beyond the norms of southern rectitude. There will be blood in South Carolina 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Rove paints McKinley as a racial moderate, with his principal evidence, beyond vague claims of personal rectitude, a meeting McKinley held with African-Americans at a church in Savannah, Georgia, in March 1896. Karl Rove is a bad historian: Race, the South and the real story he doesn’t tell about William McKinley and 1896 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z For Xi, this grievously undermines the scrubbed image of rectitude that his anti-corruption watchdogs are trying to uphold. The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The rectitude campaign has caught even the most respected celebrities flat-footed. China seeks to turn entertainers into moral models 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Sniffy rectitude, too, tends to draw attention to one’s own contradictions. Lamenting Pete Rose’s Flaws While Reflecting on Ours 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z I missed my brother’s night-before-Christmas mask of rectitude and my father’s bumblebee bass humming Joy To The World. Harper Lee: my Christmas in New York 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z There’s no better way to ensure ideological rectitude than a personal touch. Chinese College Counselors Must Join the Communist Party 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Behind this facade of bourgeois rectitude there was a family secret, one he revealed long afterward. Helmut Schmidt, Assertive West German Chancellor, Dies at 96 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Hanks is his generation’s answer to those paragons of rectitude, and in “Bridge of Spies” he reminds us why. ‘Bridge of Spies’ is an engrossing account of a real-life Cold War case 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z And, as the scholar Vincent Buranelli noted in a 1957 critique of Thoreau, “antagonism is never worse than when it involves two men each of whom is convinced that he speaks for goodness and rectitude.” Henry David Thoreau, Hypocrite 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z He spoke with the quiet confidence of a man convinced of the rectitude of his own position. The Rise of Ben Carson 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Some who worked with him closely describe a man of great courtesy and personal tenderness, shy and reserved but kind, of high moral rectitude and exceptional intelligence. Can Pope Francis Really Change the Church? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z A combination of fiscal rectitude and increasingly competent government was meant to allow Latin America’s biggest economy to converge with advanced nations such as the U.S. How Brazil’s China-Driven Commodities Boom Went Bust 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Because the academies are considered prestige institutions as well as symbols of rectitude and their reputations are always at stake, few risks are taken. Thomas Jefferson’s urgent lesson for America: The less force we wield, the more powerful we become 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Austerity, however, could still bring to mind stiff upper lips and moral rectitude. The Tough Love of ‘Austerity’ 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Kaoru is the kind of prig who prides himself on his moral rectitude while hating his sexual timidity. Why “The Tale of Genji” Is Still Seductive 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z He trod the path of fiscal rectitude even as unemployment reached record heights — the same policy, under the same depression conditions, to which today’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, has demanded Greece adhere. Germany failed to learn from its own history--and Greece is paying the price 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Some of us may have more rectitude in these matters than others. The Changing American Sex Scandal 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Nationally, Father Lo Schiavo is best known for his decision in 1982 to forgo the revenue, publicity and acclaim of the university’s successful men’s basketball program and instead stand up for institutional rectitude. Rev. John Lo Schiavo, 90, Who Barred a Sport, Dies 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Even the great Washington, pillar of American rectitude and integrity, was forced by British military successes to abandon his strategy of confronting the British Army in major battles. In Defense of Flip-Flopping 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z I asked a Butler University representative, Marc Allen, how is it that Butler students maintain such kindly rectitude in this age of lowbrow, ahistorical cynicism? Holocaust Survivor Eva Kor Headlines Moving Butler Commencement Focused On Forgiveness And Service 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z It is even hard to remember that there was a time, not too long ago, when banks were pillars of the community and exemplars of moral rectitude. Goodell Must Suspend Brady & Belichick For A Season 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z And the kowtowing to the fiction—kowtowing wrapped in a vaguely feminist air of rectitude. Being Melodramatic About College Student-Teacher Relationships 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z And there’s an especial insistence that fiscal rectitude must be closely observed. The Greek Problem Is That It's Already In Breach Of The Bailout Deal 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Far from rebuilding the economies of Southern Europe, Germany pillaged them in the name of fiscal rectitude. In Greek crisis, Germany should learn from its fiscal past 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Since then, Washington policy makers have been focused on issues like national defense, financial crises and recession, or at least on professing a common goal of balanced budgets and fiscal rectitude. As New Leadership Takes Over in Washington, Old Fiscal Battles Are Resurfacing 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Obama’s plan is a model of financial rectitude: modest tax cuts and spending programs financed by clearly identified increases in taxes and fees. Obama’s Tax-Cut Plan Could Start a Political Bidding War 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Even the International Monetary Fund, long an exponent of fiscal rectitude, argues that public infrastructure investment largely pays for itself, especially in periods of repressed economic activity and low interest rates like today. The Costs of Stinginess in Medicaid 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z And yet … the public sector finances belie the government’s claim to fiscal rectitude. UK Social Spending Hits Record High Despite Austerity Measures 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Switzerland, praised for its fiscal rectitude and banking secrecy, tends to attract capital inflows as money flees chaos elsewhere. Swiss Central Bank to Adopt a Negative Interest Rate 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z La féminité, in conjunction with feminism, unbound these structures of rectitude, undoing the family. France’s Frenzy over the Discourse of Decline 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Once again, he reasserted the age-old doctrine of fiscal rectitude. The U.K.’s “Mr. Austerity” Doubles Down 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Cosby, as all of those who did profiles on him have pointed out, was never just an entertainer, but a signal tower of moral rectitude. Calling Out Bill Cosby’s Media Enablers, Including Myself 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z At first glance, Judge Griesa’s ruling might be seen to promote financial rectitude by deterring countries from taking on debt they might not be able to repay. In Argentina’s Debt Case, No Winners, but a Lot of Losers 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Indeed, you appear more certain today of your own divine rectitude than the day you took office in 2008. CHARLES HURT: An open letter to Barack Obama 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Fiscal rectitude and tax overhaul are matters that unite all wings of the Republican coalition, from the Tea Party right to the Big Business center. As Power Shifts in Washington, Some See Chance for Tax and Fiscal Deals 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The policy is known as "die schwarze Null", or the "black zero", and it's become a key symbol of her government's success - proof of budget discipline, and a sign of moral rectitude. Is Europe's economic motor stalling? 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z On the other hand, for a country with gross public borrowing at close to 240% of GDP, fiscal rectitude is paramount. Consumptive 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z As Comey’s quote about rectitude reveals, leaders can make mistakes when they conflate their will with a willingness to cross the line. James Comey: The Dangers Of Rectitude 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The lesson is that fiscal rectitude is crucial. Scottish borrowing costs assessed 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Whoever captains the USA and European teams will mouth the ancient hymn to moral rectitude again, because that is what is demanded. Unpredictable Phil Mickelson shows ruthless side again to sting Watson 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z On September 11 – ominous day – The New York Times published a thoroughly unconvincing protest of Qatar’s rectitude from its foreign minister, Khalid al-Attiyah. Crushing the Islamic State Requires Leadership From Obama and Congress 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It is rumored that it is even true of that ultimate paragon of moral rectitude, the newspaper columnist. More than pictures stolen in celeb phone-hacking case 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Convinced of its own abiding rectitude, Virginia’s political class has refused to enact laws with teeth to hold elected officials to decent standards of conduct in carrying out the people’s business. Mr. McDonnell’s disgrace is also Virginia’s The lesson is that fiscal rectitude is crucial. Scottish borrowing costs assessed 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z They insist they think it will weaken the credibility of their central message of economic revival and fiscal rectitude. Lib Dems pushing for early Budget 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z “As the symbol and genius of learning, justice and rectitude, the Grecian goddess seems specially fitted to represent the aims of the college,” the trustees declared. Making Sure Visitors Know They’re at Barnard, With a B 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z "By contrast, the Germans appear to be totally without doubt. So convinced did they seem of their rectitude, that they came across as rigid and dogmatic — dare I say it, Germanic." Behind the jargon at the IMF 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Reading cannot raise the $100 million it needs for the job, he said, and new congressional rules, approved under the mantle of fiscal rectitude, prevent him from delivering help. Congress Set to Make Exit, but Few Cheer 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z But here’s the thing: The senators who voted against pension smoothing have not always shown the same passion for fiscal rectitude. ‘Pension Smoothing’: The Gimmick Both Parties in Congress Love 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Despite her minute size, she was a huge presence – a voice of rectitude that spoke above the political din, addressing itself to our common humanity. Nadine Gordimer: evergreen, ageless and an inspiration to all writers 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Their agency, he wrote, was “a fortress of propriety and moral rectitude that was to stand for 50 years.” Eileen Ford, a Founder of Top Modeling Agency, Dies at 92 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The judge's epic five-day summing up of the hacking trial was a model of rigour and rectitude. Phone-hacking trial: now it's over, has anything really changed? 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z More than personal rectitude and obedience to rules of behavior, Dr. Stassen argued, Christian ethics demanded organized action to save the world from self-destruction. Glen Stassen, Theologian, Dies at 78; Championed Nuclear Disarmament 2014-05-07T20:09:40Z His supporters, however, saw him as a model of rectitude, as a public servant trying to uphold the rule of law and demonstrate that even powerful government officials were not above it. Lawrence E. Walsh, Iran-Contra Prosecutor, Dies at 102 2014-03-20T18:32:06Z Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has speculated that the military valued “competence over character” during wartime, and that it needs to place a higher priority on personal rectitude. Pentagon investigations point to military system that promotes abusive leaders 2014-01-28T23:09:33Z Any modern Fed chairman is likely to use a series of boilerplate phrases about the economy — on the importance of education and fiscal rectitude, among other things. Capital Ideas: A Rarity: A Democrat to Lead the Fed 2013-08-31T19:03:01Z Her first effort after declaring her candidacy was to mobilize thousands of volunteers — even before she develops a policy platform beyond a promise of bipartisan cooperation and fiscal rectitude. Democrats Go for a Senate Gain as G.O.P. Rivals Vie in Georgia 2013-09-01T00:59:44Z In an effort to spark a comeback, officials last fall pledged fiscal rectitude and a more open economy. Fed Fears Reverberate in India 2013-08-20T02:09:37Z Today Mr Brown, a master of reinvention over his long political career, presents himself as a pragmatist whose visionary impulses are tempered by a ruthless fiscal rectitude. California’s budget: Redemption song 2013-06-13T15:10:45Z And anyway, I've no idea whether the moral rectitude of paying tax is one of the wholesome values being so expensively instilled into them. Don't be fooled by Google's Prius-driving babyfacery 2013-05-17T19:30:01Z The embodiment of patrician rectitude, he became chairman of the Jockey Club. Orb is first Kentucky Derby champion for Phipps family’s pedigreed foperation 2013-05-13T16:31:36Z Thus Mr. Stockman’s current claim that he resigned as director of the OMB in 1985 because of “the destruction of fiscal rectitude under Ronald Reagan” is hard to accept. Mourning In America: The Failed Education of David Stockman 2013-04-02T17:36:33Z Conservatives and Greens share a belief in fiscal rectitude, European integration and conservation. Greens' push for conservative vote gives Merkel headache 2013-01-29T16:16:31Z For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. Joe Klein: Centrist Group Embraces Problem-solving Over Partisanship 2013-01-17T13:05:25Z The idea is that such experience offers insight into the moral rectitude of socialism, and in many cases this holds true. Will the money Gérard Depardieu saves on tax really make him happy? 2013-01-12T07:01:21Z The letter ended with an affirmation of U.S. regulatory rectitude. U.S. Congress Flags China's Huawei, ZTE As Security Threats 2012-10-08T04:37:38Z He was a successful defensive coordinator, the man who made Penn State into Linebacker U. He was the trusted lieutenant of Joe Paterno, famous for his own rectitude. Malcolm Gladwell chimes in on critique of his article 2012-09-19T15:26:00Z There is, in fact, a slightly smug lassitude affecting the Democrats, convinced as they are of their own rectitude and the extremist depredations of the GOP. Viewpoint: Why Democrats Must Leave Identity Politics Behind 2012-09-02T05:05:35Z This is not quite the indictment it seems: normal standards of fiscal rectitude have not applied in the past four years. Barack Obama’s economic record: End-of-term report 2012-08-30T15:01:38Z Correction: Germany has decided that Italy and Greece should abandon the charismatic model which might seem to suggest that there is a correlation between dullness and fiscal rectitude. Antony Jenkins' appointment as Barclays chief is a sign of the dull times 2012-08-30T13:31:37Z Virtually everyone he meets in both Liberia and the CAR is a walking, talking post-colonial stereotype, presenting a vague front of rectitude and Westernized behavior while eagerly accepting cash-stuffed envelopes to make problems go away. “The Ambassador”: A Borat-style quest for blood diamonds 2012-08-28T20:03:00Z To an outsider, Merkel’s internal propaganda campaign and its attitudes to countries like Ireland and Greece may seem consistent with a stereotypical German approach to financial rectitude. Mrs Merkel's Message to Europe: Screw The People 2012-08-25T19:03:44Z He will set an example of moral rectitude. The Long Run: Romney in Crisis: Two Dark Spots in Fortunate Life 2012-08-25T03:32:51Z Mr Ryan speaks with conviction about the imperative of reining in the deficit, but the underlying premise of his ideas is not so much fiscal rectitude as small government. Lexington: Proposing Vice-President Ryan 2012-08-16T15:04:04Z Conservatives, however, have praised Mr. Romney’s position as a stand for fiscal rectitude and against corporate welfare. House Approves One-Year Extension of the Bush-Era Tax Cuts 2012-08-02T01:28:02Z O’Donnell, Rove told Fox viewers, “does not evince the characteristics of rectitude and truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for.” Karl Rove: He's Back, Big Time 2012-07-26T10:00:12Z Spain and Ireland were hailed for their fiscal rectitude, with far lower debt-to-G.D.P. ratios than Germany. Today's Economist: Laura D'Andrea Tyson: What Must Be Done Now to Save the Euro? 2012-06-29T10:00:14Z But the attempt at fiscal rectitude now risks – indeed, almost certainly guarantees – prolonging the depression. Remember the Great Depression? No, it doesn't seem that anyone does 2012-06-16T23:05:54Z German leaders genuinely believed that financial markets would reward fiscal rectitude with lower interest rates. Common Sense: German Rectitude Has Its Risks 2012-06-15T15:19:12Z Long-run fiscal rectitude is the only way to accomplish that goal. German eurobond idea is upside down 2012-06-15T12:38:12Z The poll also showed Germany to be the most admired country and its leader, Chancellor , to be the most respected, despite her unrelenting push for more fiscal rectitude across the Europe. Euro Isn’t Loved, but Poll Shows Little Desire to Drop It 2012-05-29T04:21:49Z Few believe that the Germans, or their allies in fiscal rectitude in Finland, Austria, the Netherlands and elsewhere, would endorse a blank-check form of debt issuance for the Greeks. Search Shifts for Euro Zone Relief 2012-05-22T19:35:48Z She did get an endorsement from British Prime Minister David Cameron, and other leaders praised her emphasis on fiscal rectitude. Mighty Merkel may be the odd woman out 2012-05-20T17:13:44Z Even the Socialists were in favor of €8 billion of cuts, a testament to the Dutch regard for fiscal rectitude. Dutch Cut a Fragile Deal to Salvage Credit Rating 2012-04-27T20:10:06Z But it is hard to commit today to practice fiscal rectitude tomorrow. German eurobond idea is upside down 2012-06-15T12:38:12Z But such resolutions usually fail somewhere; for cautiousness is a guardian who does not always watch, when she is without the companionship of rectitude. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Yet through all these honours I cannot help observing a strain of reluctance, as so often happens with a critic who has made himself feared by the rectitude of his judgments. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z A rare capacity for tedious work, a dour Catonian rectitude, a passion for truth, pride, irritability at criticism and independence of character, are the marks of Herculano as a man. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Yet on his way he was borne up by the consciousness of rectitude, and by the vigour of high resolves. Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:31.930Z So that, after all, this thing called faith borrows all its brightness and real value from moral rectitude. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z However one might be pained at what she said, it was impossible to feel wounded; her manner was so kind, and her rectitude of intention so evident. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He is a man with such a very high ideal—with a rectitude of purpose, a purity of motive which do not belong to our century. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z Billy Blythe made himself much respected for the moral rectitude and true worth of his character. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z He felt that, without her, life was now a blank, void of the grand pointing interest of existence--void of all sustaining power, but a knowledge of rectitude, and a purpose of endurance. Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:31.930Z It has been because men have judged by their faith, and not by moral rectitude, that one Christian sect has persecuted even to death, others who have borne the Christian name. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z May your early fate warn them in time to keep themselves in the path of rectitude and honesty. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z The terms honour, justice, rectitude or virtue, and their equivalents in every language, present to the mind ideas essentially and broadly differing from the terms prudence, sagacity, or interest. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z He was also chargeable with dissimulation greatly at variance with moral rectitude. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z We need not, therefore, be surprised that Christians, as a class, fall far below Infidels in point of moral rectitude. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z On the one hand, it is asserted that there is an absolute standard of rectitude; and respecting certain classes of actions, it is rightly asserted. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z It is the morality of conscience and of the good will, of the inner rectitude of soul and purpose, as all-sufficient and supreme. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Few men could understand him, because his nature was so thoroughly balanced, and his rectitude so pure; not because his thoughts were too deep, or too high for them. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The reader will now understand the views the Infidels have of moral rectitude; and if the principles are faithfully carried out in our journey through life, the end of all will be peace. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z What wonder from those cabins rude Came lives of stalwart rectitude, When hearth-stones were the altars where Arose the vestal flame of prayer At early candle-lighting. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z Look after our dear children, and direct them in the paths of rectitude. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Certainly no man will deny to the present Secretary of the Treasury entire rectitude of motive in all his conduct. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z "It is best," he said, "to recognise the facts as they are, and not try to prop up rectitude by fictions." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z It then follows, that, as man’s acceptance with God, and the salvation of his soul, is in consequence of the sacrifice made by Christ on the cross, his moral rectitude is of little consequence. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z He would have played the hero perfectly but for one fatal thought that presently came to him--a thought fatal to his rectitude. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z But his thought never swerved from the line of perfect rectitude, his sympathies were always human. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Not everyone appreciated Carter’s unflinching rectitude or his nose for the spotlight. Gary Carter, ‘Kid’ Who Helped Mets Win 1986 Title, Dies at 57 2012-02-17T02:00:56Z "It is best to recognise the facts as they are, and not try to prop up rectitude by fictions." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Craft foils rectitude, Malignity defeats beneficence, And grant, at very last of all, the feud ’Twixt good and evil ends, strange thoughts intrude Though good be garnered safely and good’s foe Bundled for burning. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z He was content to sit staring with vacant eyes at his sister-in-law for an unlimited period, breathing very hard and emitting strong fumes of spirits with a meaningless but complacent expression of conscious rectitude. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Islam gives an easier, clearer line of rectitude to a trader than its great rival in Africa—under African conditions. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z With all my faults, I was never a gambler; women, wine, and extravagant living, were my chief derelictions from the paths of rectitude. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z When Christ made this promise he forgot, ignored, or held in contempt the rectitude of a brave, free and natural soul. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z His brothers in Lambda Chi Alpha took note of his rectitude. The Long Run: For Ron Paul, a Distinctive Worldview of Long Standing 2012-02-06T04:43:39Z The best side of the mercurial gentleman quite glittered with snowy rectitude, and mother and children were agreed that no one could do without the abb�. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z These two lives had come together and flowed on in such harmony and helpfulness and rectitude before the world that the stain had been wiped out. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z The innate consciousness of my mother's moral rectitude never for a moment left my mind—a proud conviction of her innocence, which, I was certain, time would make clear. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z That night, at all events, I acted upon an impulse of which I have never doubted the rectitude. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z To the question, What is the foundation of rectitude?, he replies, the greatest good of the universe of rational beings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The reference filled several eyes in the company with conscious rectitude, and they were not all British. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z If not upon the undeserving,—if not upon the hapless wanderer from the paths of rectitude,—where shall the sun diffuse his light, or the clouds distil their dew? Such Things Are A Play, in Five Acts 2012-01-25T03:00:37.637Z He cannot have acted from a regard to moral rectitude. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z He sought to lead men to better paths and lives of virtue and rectitude. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z "Oh, well," I could see Christian charity struggling with Mrs. Shane's profound conviction of the rectitude of her own way of life. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Constancy in him was nothing more nor less than the energetic affirmation of intellectual rectitude. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z They are the maxims of a strong common sense and the dictates of a grave rectitude of will. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z How often do flagrant transgressions of moral rectitude occur in such instances! Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z The video comes as a blow to a Marine Corps that prides itself on a reputation for rectitude, said Jack Hoban, who was a Marine officer and now teaches ethics courses to Marines. Marines Face Potential Prosecution for Video Desecrating Corpses 2012-01-13T14:44:11Z Haley, 39, was elected in 2010 as a champion of the movement that pushed states’ rights and fiscal rectitude. Haley’s Picking Romney Shocks Tea Party Disrupting Republicans 2012-01-13T09:54:27Z In the first place it indicates where Lincoln's sense of moral rectitude found out its final bearings. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Haley, 39, was elected in 2010 as a darling of the movement that pushed states' rights and fiscal rectitude. Hot Shots: Anti-Whaling Activists Board Ship 2012-01-10T20:23:37Z Can the Intelligence affirm that a state of moral impurity is better than a state of moral rectitude? Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z What I do is from principle, from the consciousness of a rectitude of heart and love to my country. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z I have vowed to my sister, myself, and now to you, that, however hardly treated, yet virtue and rectitude shall be my guide. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z As with his lowliness, and his rectitude, so with his moral valuation of the human soul. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z That a mother should thus lay a snare for the rectitude of her child, must have appeared incredible, could the fact have admitted of a doubt. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z We now perceive clearly in what consists the real identity of moral character, in all Intelligents of true moral rectitude. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z It has even risen against that traditional icon of monetary rectitude, the Swiss franc. Opinion: The Myth of Japan?s Failure 2012-01-08T00:48:46Z Yet be comforted, my Julia; have confidence in the rectitude of your own actions and thoughts; but, above all, petition heaven to support you in all trials. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z And so, in his benignity, as in his rectitude and lowliness and purity, he stood in this address attired in Godly piety. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z They direct many a judgment which ought not to rely on itself; they aid faltering rectitude with the strength of numbers; for, degenerate as we are, numbers are still upon the side of feminine decorum. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z If you tread as cautiously as the strictest rectitude can guide you, you must suffer from this. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z It was only in politics that Douglas demonstrated any want of inflexibility and rectitude, and then only did Lincoln manifest a lack of faith in his morals. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z With such supports, and I hope I may add with an inward rectitude of mind, I think she can never deviate from the right path. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z There above, he firmly held, were lodged eternally the perfect pattern and assurance of full rectitude and charity. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z Protected from all human disturbances of her spirit, she spent her days closeted within her little fortress in grim contemplation of her rectitude. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Only, from past experience, he knew that to get Tess and Dot Kenway to leave the path of rectitude took some sharp “figuring.” The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z But the creed of the Trinity was not in any wise essential to morality of life and rectitude of conduct. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z If his egoism and vanity are undeniable, he undoubtedly possessed the virtues of rectitude and compassion. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Guileless, luminous, and single-hearted in his rectitude and in his reverence, he affords a signal illustration of the way in which faith and conscience may vitally co-operate and even coalesce. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z By subscribing unquestionably to her rectitude, admitting its existence publicly and succumbing to its strength, one earned the dividends of her social approval. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Tartaglia stammers, and preserves something of the knave in his composition, burnished with Neapolitan abandonment to appetite and brazen disregard for moral rectitude. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z I know the public, etc., is fickle, and have sought a higher reward, the consciousness of rectitude; this is not all-enduring, and when it fails I have done. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z "In return for a life, the Fountain of all knowledge in his justice and rectitude gives knowledge." The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z All his friends recognize in Adolphus Trollope that rare union of rectitude and reflection which constitutes the genuine philosopher. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z But a militant defense of the status quo inspired him always with a comfortable feeling of rectitude. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Germany, paragon of fiscal rectitude, ran a structural deficit -- the chronic shortfall that exists even when an economy is running at full potential -- of more than 3 percent of GDP last year. Europe’s Fiscal Pact May Solve Next Crisis, Not This One: View 2011-12-12T02:03:37Z She is still unshaken in the belief of her husband's rectitude. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Although he favors more fiscal rectitude in Washington, he’s concerned that the short-run effect of deficit reduction will be to suppress demand and thus growth. Unemployment Rate Drops, but Economists Aren't Smiling 2011-12-08T04:01:33Z More surprising is that Germany was among the countries put on notice—not due to a lack of fiscal rectitude but for its exposure to less solvent euro zone members such as Greece and Portugal. S&P Tells It Like It Is in Europe 2011-12-06T17:40:34Z It was entirely egoistic—a moment in which her rectitude congratulated itself upon—its rectitude. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z The position would be loftier and more correct if we retired from an enterprise crowned with success, in the fulness of conscious superiority as well as of conscious rectitude. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z May the day be hastened when no man who stands in moral rectitude in the presence of man and God will be forced to maintain what he believes his rights in defiance of the law. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Without, their life is made easy by universal trust: and within their home and their hearts, they have the security of rectitude, and the gladness of innocence. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z The German government sees itself as standing up for fiscal and monetary rectitude. Germans’ Righteous Stand Fans Flames in Euro Crisis: Clive Crook 2011-11-30T00:38:59Z They were ten undaunted crusaders inspired with the unfaltering consciousness of their country's power and rectitude. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z "Instead of trumpeting its moral rectitude on the question, the BOA should examine the situation from the perspective of the current legal inability to enforce its bylaw," Pound said. BOA's conduct unworthy of Olympic hosts, Pound says 2011-11-29T12:52:42Z Whenever you launch a curse, if only in thought, you strike a blow, against which conscious rectitude is an actual armor, and the only one. Beyond 2011-11-27T03:00:13.650Z Some of the worst cases of want of rectitude that I have known have been in persons so placed as that everybody naturally supposed they must be good, and trusted them accordingly. Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z It argues, indeed, a keen sensibility and strong consciousness of rectitude. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z The body of Michel Croz lies upon the other side, under a simpler tomb; whose inscription bears honourable testimony to his rectitude, to his courage, and to his devotion. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z Neither then, nor at any time afterwards—although the affair hung over him to trouble him for many years—was there any charge implicating his own personal rectitude.' The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z He groups the capital with the interest and presents a bill of the most scrupulous rectitude. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z I did not notice that indispensable attache of refined society, the chaperon domineering over those simple, stainless daughters of the plains to keep them from drifting from the path of moral rectitude. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z Then apparently he felt the stirring of returning rectitude. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z Not improbably, the moral obliquities of the poet had their influence in qualifying the opinion formed of his writings, by a man of such strict rectitude as Mr. Adams. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z After she died he kept her body tenderly in the flat for five days and maintained her bedroom with curatorial rectitude ever after. Jimmy Savile, TV Personality, Dies at 84 2011-11-03T04:35:06Z He had kindly feelings towards most people, and he delighted in the stern rectitude which distinguished many of his Yorkshire flock. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z There never was so beautiful an illustration of how far mere genuine heartiness of disposition and rectitude of purpose can impart true dignity to a character, as Sir Roger de Coverley. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z But the impression of rectitude will be part of the voters’ assessment of him next year. The Obama Miracle, a White House Free of Scandal: Jonathan Alter 2011-10-28T00:10:01Z Its rectitude as she sat at the inconvenient little desk suggested that she expected Louie, her turn, pause and inquiring "Well?" that she did not. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Val fell a sudden prey to the old loneliness in the midst of so much family rectitude. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z There was a fund of reserve behind the frankness of Lydia's manner that conveyed a conviction of rectitude entirely beyond the necessity of a rigorous manner, or of a particular method of deportment. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z He carried into all the stations he has filled signal ability and unquestioned rectitude. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z But after the bitter moment Janey's sturdy rectitude and sense of justice always came to her rescue. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z He, on the other hand, answering meekly enough, but always alleging his own rectitude, laid the blame upon us. The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson 2011-10-18T02:00:19.523Z We should conform ourselves to reason, the path of moral rectitude, and in so doing, we cannot fail of recommending ourselves to God, and to our own consciences. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z Few in numbers, zealous in their gospel, superbly confident in the rectitude of their counsel they aroused the spirit of retaliation. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z The man, who, after this retrospect, pronounces there never was a false step, or a deviation from rectitude, we venture to say is but very little acquainted with humanity! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z He added that editorials urging for greater moral rectitude on the part of the political class have been surfacing “for some time now.” Italian Church Criticizes ?Licentious Conduct? of the Elite 2011-09-28T21:18:43Z Hand in hand with judgment and rectitude, it will win here below the promised blessing, and obtain its own beatitude for its giver. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z Nor does God deviate from his rectitude of nature in matters of inspiration, revelation or instruction to the moral world, any more than in that of his government of the natural. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z Brutus thought that, as Elsie had at one time in her life wandered from the paths of rectitude, she would readily consent to a marriage. Octavia The Octoroon 2011-09-26T02:00:30.547Z The future of our democracy rests not in the Halls of Congress, but in the cradle; and to build for permanency, we must build, not on theory, but on personal rectitude. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Chicago was considered relatively clean, and however deserved of this virtuous reputation, by the late 1920s its claims of rectitude were supported by a long skein of mediocre seasons. At the University of Chicago, Football and Higher Education Mix 2011-09-17T00:30:39Z Belonged to a good family in the States—New Englanders, reputable and cold and narrow, stiff with rectitude as their own rock-ribbed coasts. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z His first proposition was, "That moral rectitude was infinitely pleasing to God;" from which he deduced this inference, viz., Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z But his abrupt bow is really the expression of that unbending rectitude and noble pride in individual freedom that made him the reformer and the poet of liberty. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z We hear a great deal to-day about the personal not counting any longer; yet the fact remains that the one enduring corner-stone of the State is the personal rectitude of its citizens. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z If the management of this business is to be in my hands, I should say let us behave with rectitude at least, if not with liberality. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z Edinburgh's buildings exude a moral rectitude that chimes with Google's "Do no evil" maxim. Google must collaborate ? and recognise the importance of content 2011-08-21T20:46:01Z "That a contrariety to moral rectitude was consequently infinitely displeasing to God and infinitely evil." Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z He had in other respects amiable qualities, and was esteemed a man of honour and rectitude. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z He had enough of moral rectitude to understand the distinctions between right and wrong, but too much selfishness to observe them unostentatiously, and too much prudence to disregard them openly. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z He was a man of rectitude", says M. Laemmer, "and conscientious: I cannot think of him without a feeling of deep sorrow. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 2011-08-13T02:00:20.940Z "Certainly not!" declared the Supreme Exalted Ruler with loud rectitude. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z For her part, Lagarde continues to deny any excess or error in her decision—a declaration of innocence that get some support from Lagarde's reputation for rectitude. Christine Lagarde: New Allegations Against Dominique Strauss-Khan's Successor 2011-08-04T19:37:52Z I trust that you will ever walk in the path of rectitude. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z A good man may do the most mistaken things with such conviction of their rectitude as to be even bound to do them. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z The purity of his spirit is tarnished, ambition has crept in where holiness reigned, and his perfect rectitude of purpose will be sacrificed so that he may but rule. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Even the stiffness of his fatigues promotes rectitude and probity of carriage: his hearty affection for his pursuit, shedding lustre on all he takes in hand. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z This belief was of the same order as that which we have in the rectitude of an honoured friend. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z But assured of his own rectitude, he trusted to the proud resenting maxim, "Evil be to him who evil thinks," and he resented imputation—whether it came from his relatives or his friends. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z How good to draw the larger, purer breath, After the years of battle and of death; To feel how well our country bore the strain, And settled back to rectitude again! The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z Shall they not rather be stimulated to unconscious rectitude, gently led into those blind but holy habits which make goodness easy, and so be saved from the perilous perplexities of marking out their own way? The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z “What fact,” he shall ask, “could better illustrate the perfect rectitude of the Count?” The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z He had taken his own rectitude so for granted that he could not believe he might be guilty of what the light had shown lurking in a dark corner of his mind. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Is it crouching or has it a noble and stately rectitude? The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z And Joseph, with his high sense of rectitude, was apprehensive lest some day something might there be done, which would cause a crash. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z The Bahai historians say:381 "They are remarkable only for their charity, kindliness, purity, godliness, rectitude, sincerity, integrity, generosity, chastity and strict avoidance of all forbidden things." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z And any deviation from the path of rectitude which would not be tolerated in any other man, ought not to be tolerated in a minister. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z He exuded conscious rectitude and plainly resented any suggestion of bias. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Who has not heard him when he has argued that the detour is the shortest way home, and that a slight deviation from rectitude will lead to the noblest ends? The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z With her it was better to have striven with all one's might and encountered disaster than to have lived fallow, a life of the most perfect rectitude. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z "You are a very pillar of rectitude, my friend." The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z |
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