correctitudes

We must all be actors now, she seems to imply, not realising how history makes nonsense of so many upstart political correctitudes.

Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011

We must all be actors now, she seems to imply, not realising how history makes nonsense of so many upstart political correctitudes.

Evening Standard - Home Brian Sewell 2011

BP's representative, Des Violaris, thought too much in terms of portraits that might make good advertisements and, pursuing the political correctitudes, demanded that there must be painters and subjects other than white Anglo-Saxons; and the NPG's director begged us to let Miss Violaris have her way, arguing that as the sponsor supplies the cash, the sponsor must be allowed the whip hand.

Evening Standard - Home 2010

It’s not a typical writer’s blog; it’s mostly a record of Wright’s certitudes and correctitudes, often framed as logical proofs complete with Latin phrases — and a whole lot of bile.

Communique from the Continent of Stupidea 2009

Blanquette was enjoying herself amongst the pigs and ducks of La Haye, whence she wrote letters in which her joy in country things mingled with anxiety as to the neglected condition of the Master; I led a pleasant but somewhat nervous life in Somersetshire, spending hours in vain attempts to reconcile the cosmic views of Paragot and an English vicar, and learning sometimes with hot humiliation the correctitudes of English country vicarage behaviour; and Paragot, his long legs dangling on each side of his donkey, rode, as I thought, picturesquely vagrant, through the leafy byways of France.

The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896