Food is hard earned and requires the proper degree of respect.

She had tuned her sight to the proper degree.

To refine it to the proper degree was a painfully slow process, taking in this case a full six weeks.

Get the words all out coldly, you know, and with the proper degree of fierceness.

Jules asked with what he hoped was the proper degree of reverence.

You cannot go wrong, so long as you observe the proper degree of heat, which holds a middle place between hot and cold.

In my day they showed a proper degree of respect for privacy.

I asked him with the proper degree of concern if he had had my note.

"I do believe our meal is now at the proper degree of drunkenness."

Has he ever given me the proper degree of respect.