All 9 Uses of
propriety
in
The Death of Ivan Ilych
- But the more intimate of Ivan Ilych's acquaintances, his so-called friends, could not help thinking also that they would now have to fulfil the very tiresome demands of propriety by attending the funeral service and paying a visit of condolence to the widow.†
Chpt 1
- He felt a certain discomfort and so he hurriedly crossed himself once more and turned and went out of the door — too hurriedly and too regardless of propriety, as he himself was aware.†
Chpt 1
- Peter Ivanovich tried to think of some means of doing so, but after reflecting for a while and, out of propriety, condemning the government for its niggardliness, he said he thought that nothing more could be got.†
Chpt 1
- His wife, without any reason — de gaiete de coeur as Ivan Ilych expressed it to himself — began to disturb the pleasure and propriety of their life.†
Chpt 2 *
- He now realized that matrimony — at any rate with Praskovya Fedorovna — was not always conducive to the pleasures and amenities of life, but on the contrary often infringed both comfort and propriety, and that he must therefore entrench himself against such infringement.†
Chpt 2
- He only required of it those conveniences — dinner at home, housewife, and bed — which it could give him, and above all that propriety of external forms required by public opinion.†
Chpt 2
- For the rest he looked for lighthearted pleasure and propriety, and was very thankful when he found them, but if he met with antagonism and querulousness he at once retired into his separate fenced-off world of official duties, where he found satisfaction.†
Chpt 2
- His aim was to free himself more and more from those unpleasantness and to give them a semblance of harmlessness and propriety.†
Chpt 2
- But it is impossible to say that," and he remembered all the legality, correctitude, and propriety of his life.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
socially correct or appropriate behavior