However, there are cultural differences regarding the social propriety of maintaining eye contact or not.

She presided with the quiet authonty of someone for whom social propriety is statutory.

Like Thackeray himself, he sees through the sham of social propriety.

However, as she became a teenager she became aware of certain social proprieties.

Taken as a group, the whitework coverlets convey an almost chilling sense of social propriety.

Instead, he said, it has to do with Japan's gun policy, police system and emphasis on social propriety.

And how about the others whose actions were beyond the bounds of social propriety?

Television has also been credited with changing the norms of social propriety, although the direction and value of this change are disputed.

Still, some compromises and nods toward social propriety are in order, psychologists say.

He had been at Arilinn long enough to know that telepaths operated under a different set of social proprieties than ordinary people did.