Kerry will, I hope, assert his essential decency by apologizing with sincerity.

You saw the poor wretch torn by his passions and his essential decency.

Mr. Gamblin plays him as a man whose essential decency is a compulsion; he has to do what's right.

The essential decencies must be maintained,' said Ridcully firmly.

Maggie's drinking and the peculiar Appalachian accent she affects can't hide her essential decency.

What mattered to me was his essential decency, and his sense of humor.

Instead, he said, "it was an indication of his humanity and his essential decency."

His winning quality is an essential decency, and that is lost in the negative campaign.

You have no faith in the essential decency of the white man?

It was a sign of his essential decency that he didn't make it personal.