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For the narrators, all this scrupulous attention to detail seems like an attempt at moral irreproachability, an effort to defend their authority to tell the tale of the Lisbon girls.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

Her iconoclasm gains strength from its fusion with irreproachability.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 24, 2016

But this kind of irreproachability can be hard to take, just as the intellectual love of God can seem impossible to attain.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 29, 2016

He seems too languid even for the profession of man-about-town, but his clothes are such that one would think their irreproachability could only be maintained by a life of dedication to them.

From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by Wood, T. Martin