There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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Decencies matter: they are essential for societies "civil" in both senses of the world.
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It is grossly neglectful of the basic decencies, cavalier toward historical facts, and toxically tasteless.
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No matter how blithely Donald Trump stampeded over basic political decencies, his enabling supporters were steadfast.
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Does the ache for revenge surpass more tender emotions, or has she stepped too far beyond the decencies of grief?
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Conversations, especially those contrived for the camera, demand good faith and a sense of shared reality — precisely the decencies that a conspiracy theorist cannot concede.
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Let us consider the Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, who joyfully makes a bonfire of the decencies in order to ride high in the media.
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Also important were the decencies Charles was prepared to defend, and the risks he was prepared to run — not least to his own popularity with his own side.
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To the degree that Trump has any ideology at all, it's a hatred of civility—a belief that the normal decencies painfully evolved over centuries are signs of weakness which occlude the natural order of domination and submission.
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The line about a power dynamic only served to cheapen actual remorse, Hal thought, made the apology into a box trick with a trapdoor, the power caveat an escape hatch out of the basic decencies we owe one another.
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A conservative is one who plays on the Burkean "team," fights for the same decencies Burke does and denounces the right opponents: the dastardly Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for instance, and Jeremy Bentham, promulgator of "utilitarian" theories that seek "the greatest good for the greatest number," who is the book's archfiend.
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"We need a kids' show for us, to remind ourselves of these basic human decencies in the complicated adult world that we now swim in, and if we can do that with a laugh and a catchy tune and a little bit of shock, then we might actually watch it, and then think about it," he said.
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Mr. Obama's long view of history and the optimism (combined with a stirring reminder of the hard work required by democracy) that he articulated in his farewell speech last week are part of a hard-won faith, grounded in his reading, in his knowledge of history (and its unexpected zigs and zags), and his embrace of artists like Shakespeare who saw the human situation entire: its follies, cruelties and mad blunders, but also its resilience, decencies and acts of grace.
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Ruan Ji refused the rules not only in court. There is a story telling about him playing chess when he received news about the death of his mother. His chess partner asked him to end the game, but Ruan Ji cold-bloodedly finished the game, then drank two measures of wine and started to groan. On the funeral he “wept so violently, that he brought up several pints of blood. He didn’t mourn and, despite observing the decencies, ate meat and drank wine.
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Reviewer Hutchings describes the novel as "classic detective fiction" typified by its first-person narrative and "engagement with the city".Peter Hutchings (2003, April 18) "A man alone with clues to times past" (Spectrum). Sydney Morning Herald p.20 Hutchings also suggests that "the sense of times past" conveyed by Temple in this novel is central to other writers in this genre, such as Raymond Chandler whose hero, Philip Marlowe, is "an anachronistic knight-errant, a defender of past decencies".
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By force of circumstances > the waitress and the boat-builder are thrown together on the houseboat, > where he lives on the mudflats, and they find that their notions of life are > congenial. During a bogus strike the racketeer comes back, claims his old > girl and takes her. The rest of the play is the story of how the > uncontaminated pair learn how to get tough about it and save the decencies > of their private principles in a world that is seething with violent > corruption.
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Most businesses employed them. They travelled all over the colony, showing samples of goods to retailers in isolated towns and conveying orders to the suppliers. They saw themselves as "advance agents", spreading "the blessings and decencies of civilization". Since its inception, the CTA had met in hotels, but between 1904 and 1906 the association acquired property in Elizabeth Street for a purpose-built headquarters and club rooms. The building was designed by prominent Brisbane architect Claude William Chambers, who had established in Brisbane a respected commercial practice which was extended to Sydney in 1915.
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A single piece of coarse cloth was given to children, while the older individuals had a pair of pants or a gown, a hat once in two or three years, and possibly a jacket. They slept in log huts that could "not protect them from the dampness and cold, nor permit the existence of the common decencies of life." By the age of 15, Henson states that he was a strong and athletic youth, filled with spirit and energy. He found that he could "run faster and farther, wrestle longer, and jump higher" than anyone around him.
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Azerbaijanis have long distrusted the OSCE's Minsk group, co- chaired by Russia, France, and the United States. All three countries have large Armenian diasporas, while Russia and Armenia are strategic allies, something Azerbaijan argues is grounds for them to consider it as favouring the Armenians in the conflict. Many Azerbaijanis accuse the Minsk Group of not being effective and fair in their work.Azerbaijan’s Relations With Minsk Group Hit New Low Azerbaijani media have accused certain co-chairs (such as Vladimir Kazimirov of Russia and Jacques Faure of France) of "observing the decencies" only as incumbents and going on to become "Armenia's best friends" soon after retiring from their position as mediators.
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The "Handbook for Military Government in Germany," an occupation document which advocated a quick restoration of normal life for the German people and reconstruction of Germany, was ready in August 1944. The secretary of the U.S. Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., author of the Morgenthau Plan for partition and deindustrialization of postwar Germany, brought it to the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who after reading it accepted it enthusiastically with the words: > Too many people here and in England hold the view that the German people as > a whole are not responsible for what has taken place – that only a few Nazis > are responsible. That unfortunately is not based on fact. The German people > must have it driven home to them that the whole nation has been engaged in a > lawless conspiracy against the decencies of modern civilization.
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The 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, based on Young's biography, portrayed Rommel in a sympathetic way, as a loyal, humane soldier and a firm opponent to Hitler's policies. The film played up Rommel's disputed role in the conspiracy against Hitler, while omitting Rommel's early association with the dictator. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, under the title "Rommel: A Flattering and Unconvincing Portrait", the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, who had served in intelligence in North Africa during the war, commented that the film represented "a tendency towards collective schizophrenia whereas ... 'chivalry' towards a captured brigadier is in no wise incompatible with a foreign policy of perfidy and the brutal disregard for all the elementary decencies of civilised behaviour". Critical and public response in the U.S. was muted, but it was a commercial success in Britain, along with a less known 1953 film The Desert Rats, where James Mason reprised his portrayal of Rommel.
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