It maintained a vigilant attitude toward lapses in moral rectitude on the part of both teachers and students.
No, but they needed to be made aware that its pretence to scientific rectitude was a sham.
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.
When rendering a verdict, he adopts a posture of rectitude and knowledge.
Their touchstone was legal and financial rectitude rather than any wider 'service to the community'.
The gold standard provided just such an ideology, supported by a rhetoric of morality and rectitude.
They suffer from a kind of unctuous rectitude which is disliked by foreigners and their overseas kinsmen.
