They suffer from a kind of unctuous rectitude which is disliked by foreigners and their overseas kinsmen.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It maintained a vigilant attitude toward lapses in moral rectitude on the part of both teachers and students.
In this reconciliation, the rite is construed as a paradigmatic situation that seeks divine rectitude through the drama of conversion.
