| The rule of law was dispensed with and constitutional proprieties were cast aside. |
| The equation between proper dress and proper speech is made explicitly in Victorian etiquette manuals, where proprieties of language are spoken of as if they were cosmetics. |
| Was this formulation a scrupulous observance of proprieties or an elegant way of passing the buck? |
| Moral and natural proprieties are usually sacrificed for civil proprieties. |
| Even at the Commonwealth level, there were times when the Chief Justice thought he had a responsibility to throw the proprieties and conventions to the wind. |
| Her medium and subject matter flew in the face of traditional figurative aesthetics, feminist proprieties, and postmodernist biases, all at once. |
