Examples of rectitude

• The markets took this as a reassuring sign of the government's fiscal rectitude.

• The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality and rectitude.

• Their touchstone was legal and financial rectitude rather than any wider 'service to the community'.

• The representational rectitude, as it were, of the passage has to do with critical competence, with the use of right-sounding language.

• In doing so, it problematizes both its own suggestiveness and the 'moral rectitude' of its tragic ending.

• No, but they needed to be made aware that its pretence to scientific rectitude was a sham.

• When rendering a verdict, he adopts a posture of rectitude and knowledge.

• In this reconciliation, the rite is construed as a paradigmatic situation that seeks divine rectitude through the drama of conversion.

• It maintained a vigilant attitude toward lapses in moral rectitude on the part of both teachers and students.

• These characteristics owed much to an inner conviction that drew on a strong personal piety, and a clear sense of morality; a conviction inclined to rectitude, not subtlety.

• For the sake of decorum and propriety, our passions live behind a mask of reason and rectitude, our lives being lived according to that which is pre-destined for us.

• Yet when a "scion of this family, in an unguarded moment," had stepped from "the paths of rectitude," he had started a line of mental defectives.

• Displaying rectitude to these central departments, even if at the cost of one's minister's reputation, may improve the standing of both an individual and (in the long term) a department.

• Cicero, although his practice could be scurrilous, his jokes scandalous, his timing split-second, made his appeals ultimately to ponderous tradition and the maintenance of a position of moral rectitude.

• They suffer from a kind of unctuous rectitude which is disliked by foreigners and their overseas kinsmen.