| For an institution whose culture has been built on order and seemliness, it is deeply distressing to learn of serious flaws and even criminal activity within its fold. |
| At Nantes in Bretaigne dwelt a lady who was rich in beauty and wisdom and all seemliness. |
| There is a sort of seemliness by which you can live your life without having great moral principles. |
| Hundreds die everyday without the seemliness of a proper investigation since there is never anyone to care. |
| Unequal to the exercise of virtue itself, he thought he had done enough in preserving some of its seemliness. |
| He was both exploitative of and deferential to them, telling their stories without regard for seemliness and without filtering out personal details – but in doing so, he achieved a collective dignity for all the afflicted. |
