But it was due also to the ordinary decency of many others, including a large portion of the American people.

It shows how little influence we have, or even ordinary decency has.

Patriotism, duty, ordinary human decency they're irrelevant to that crowd.

She said Marriott had helped displaced workers above and beyond anything required by union contract or ordinary decency, especially in today's bleak job market.

I said he seemed to have taken leave of all ordinary decency.

It was natural for him to be so carried away that all the ordinary decencies didn't matter.

Appalling things happen, and are done, but in the last resort ordinary decency somehow wins out.

We assumed that ordinary human decency, to the extent we could maintain it, met minimum requirements.

This outrage seemed to be the signal for the breaking down of the final barriers which ordinary decency should have raised.

It went hand in hand with the ordinary decencies of so much of family life.