| 单词 | decorous |
| 例句 | And there is so much time to be endured, time heavy as fried food or thick fog; and then all at once these red events, like explosions, on streets otherwise decorous and matronly and somnambulent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I put in long hours at Sidley & Austin, often eating both lunch and dinner at my desk while combating a continuous flow of documents, all of them written in precise and decorous lawyer-language. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Until we came at last to where, at a decorous distance, the bullock cart waited to take them away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Jo couldn’t even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings, and failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Falstaff will never be decorous: and he is cast off. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He poked his head inside the window, elevated his eyebrows, and said in a decorous voice: “I was once an exceedingly odd young lady— Suffering much from spleen and vapors. ” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In the distance she could see the pale spires of the palace, windows lit with hundreds of candles in the dark night, presiding over the merriment in the Square like a distant, decorous Fairy Queen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore her decorous dresses to morning mass, and around her neck displayed the short single strand of pearls she had received on her fifteenth birthday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “His Highness wishes to entertain a more decorous final image of you than being held over a rock and berated by some parcel of insanity.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The truth was that Washington confused me, with its decorous traditions and sober self-regard, its whiteness and maleness, its ladies having lunch off to one side. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This was a departure from the days of decorous protest, and many of the old stalwarts of the ANC were to fade away in this new era of greater militancy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Quintilian goes on to argue, interestingly, that sometimes what might be decorous in practical terms could be unbecoming sub specie aeternitate. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Actually, for the night-life crowd, Small’s was one of Harlem’s two or three most decorous nightspots. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The pose is decorous, but the real cover stems from Nemser’s expression, which is alert with vigilant curiosity. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Much as the setting may be an older, more decorous America, its people and the problems they face can feel almost shockingly contemporary. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It promises to be a more thoughtful and decorous vision of the Roman province. Centurion kicks off British sword and sandals film wave 2010-04-22T22:15:00Z The Los Angeles native gained national attention with drummer Chico Hamilton's decorous band, and he started breaking through bebop's conventions in 1959 after connecting with L.A. compatriot Charles Mingus in New York City. Pianist Geri Allen brings her Tribute to Eric Dolphy to Seattle's Jazz Alley 2010-09-16T22:22:00Z These problems are addressed — or at least gestured at — in a series of decorous, elliptical scenes. Review: ‘The Assassin’ Finds Delight in a Deadly Vocation 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The pages of American Vogue mostly were filled with stubbornly decorous fashion, clothes rooted in chic sophistication, which is just another way of saying: restraint, reserve, polish . . . and denial. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “Les Noces,” which tells the story of an arranged marriage, set to Stravinsky’s jagged, harrowing score, ends up looking plainly decorous. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z Although “Donizetti” has no scenery and no narrative, it looks at first like an outtake from the older ballet’s celebration of the festival of the vine, with the jollification of decorous peasants. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z In this, Ida Praetorius and Andreas Kaas captured the lovelorn naïveté of youth: the moment when lovers’ eyes meet and are locked, the enchanting give-and-take dance felicities that follow, the decorous ebullience of the heart. Royal Danish Ballet Performs Works by August Bournonville 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It is discreet and reserved and charmingly decorous. Ralph Lauren, designer of the American Dream, honored by the Smithsonian It was by turns decorous and processional, while at times interrupted by interjections of stereo-traveling static or a bass tone that had escaped a dance club: juxtapositions that didn’t quite make sense. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Tess lives in a pretty wooden house in a quiet, leafy part of Connecticut and writes decorous murder mysteries solved by the eccentric gray-haired ladies of the Willow Grove Knitting Society. ‘Big Driver,’ a Stephen King Story, Comes to Lifetime 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The only other known portrait of her, by George Richmond, also on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, is a polite, decorous effort. She Was No Bird: ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript on First Trip to America 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Ives’s lyric and comic invention never falters as he blends, in capering, cascading verse, both the cultivated language and decorous rhythms of classical comedy and cheeky, up-to-the-minute slang. Review: A Revival of ‘The Liar’ Plays Alternative Facts for Laughs 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Perfectly right then that in the new exhibition he looks forward, not back, as a more decorous artist might in his 80th year. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z The other was “ironic and challenging” — and, in his view, true to the subversive, antislavery thinking behind Wheatley’s decorous neoclassical couplets. A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The phrase, "the two hearts beating each to each", might seem decorous to a modern reader, but for a Victorian poet it must have nudged the limits of the permissible. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z This nifty Act 2 number isn’t a shocker in 5th Avenue Theatre’s decorous, well-crafted staging of “A Room with a View,” a revised and refurbished 2012 musical aiming for Broadway. A visit to romance and Italy in ‘Room with a View’ 2014-05-03T00:30:45Z Moreover, changes in popular taste have allowed the production of such outrageously transgressive images that Surrealist ones looks positively decorous — if not innocent — by comparison. Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography 2010-03-11T23:02:00Z "One forgives so much in someone so decorous," says Widmerpool, who makes the elementary error of marrying her, even though she hates him. Your next box set: A Dance to the Music of Time 2012-10-04T15:00:01Z “Silence” is as visually striking as you might expect, but also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood. Review: Questions and Prayers Go Unanswered in Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Matthew himself is decorous, well-read and charming – but his character Tom is such a doofus. Succession star J Smith-Cameron: ‘Gerri is quite a badass but also relatable’ 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Within the decorous, melodic structures, Mr. Duncanson was revealing longings, wounds and accusations. Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z Unlike The Reluctant Fundamentalist, it's not decorous and elegant. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid – review 2013-03-28T08:00:02Z We waited what we thought was a decorous length of time before our first kiss: semester’s end. Modern Love: My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship 2014-04-24T19:30:01Z Sensitive, decorous and buffed by Eun-ah Lee’s warm photography, “Front Cover” still strains to surmount its thin narrative and unfortunate dips into clichéd cultural comedy. Review: In ‘Front Cover,’ Struggling for Self-Acceptance 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z For what seemed like 10 minutes, Ms. Shafiroff fanned out her skirt for photographers and twirled like a music box ballerina, all but hijacking this otherwise decorous affair. What Price Generosity? 2013-06-21T22:36:02Z They are a balm on the roiled seas of royalty; a decorous embrace of the requirements of joining “the Firm” bathed in the sepia tones of fairy-tale escapism, rather than a rejection. Romancing the Royal Portrait 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z Back in the early 70s I certainly never dreamt that decades hence a primly decorous Jackson would become my local MP. Rewind TV: Women in Love; The Killing 2011-03-27T00:05:34Z The program opened with a dull rendition of Mozart’s Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, which while notable for its polish, sounded overly prim and decorous. Review: Parlor-Style Mozart From the Ariel Quartet 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z But in general she made it her task to present her subjects with their best, decorous foot forward. Art Review: ‘Candid,’ Photos by Homai Vyarawalla, at Rubin Museum 2012-08-23T22:02:45Z Extremism rarely sounds as decorous as it does on “Mental Illness,” Aimee Mann’s first solo album in five years. Aimee Mann Traces Elegant Despair on ‘Mental Illness’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Everything is otherwise decorous, courteous, refined – and yes, kept guiltily secret. After Such Kindness by Gaynor Arnold – review 2012-08-10T21:55:02Z Yet Mr. Gurney adored the theater with a passion that spilled over the edges of even his most decorous comedies, and he feared for its survival. A Patrician Older Gentleman Morphs Into an Angry Young Man 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Right now, Mr. Uklanski’s efforts — both artistic and curatorial — can be seen in the decorous precincts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Review: In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Piotr Uklanski’s Unblinking Gaze 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Within this landscape human activity looks both decorous and ridiculous — a cavalcade of carefully executed pratfalls and reversals. | 'The Time That Remains': In Nazareth, Human Comedy as Wind Rustles the Olive Branches 2011-01-06T23:52:20Z Though it celebrates a wild, independent heroine, the film — like the book — is as decorous and soothing as a country-club luncheon. ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Review: A Wild Heroine, a Soothing Tale 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z It begins with quiet empathy and decorous music, a parlor piano ballad with piano. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z But as a work of art, it’s decorous to a fault. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z At first it’s almost decorous, repeating a five-note pizzicato figure; then it’s buffeted by flurries of percussion and string trills. Björk’s ‘Vulnicura,’ From Deep Within 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Despite the decorous connotations, the teas were more akin to spa treatments than to etiquette lessons. Sipping Serenity in the City 2011-03-10T21:55:25Z Bychkov is a welcome throwback to a more decorous podium style, gaining great effects, and great fortissimi, with a relative economy of movement. Royal Concertgebouw makes a mark with the overfamiliar in D.C. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But the music isn’t decorous; it glows with maturity and patience. Renewal, the Sensual and Fraught Candor 2010-12-18T07:51:32Z Although all works are the same size and dimensions, it must be difficult to plan a decorous arrangement when the final number is unknown. The Alan Turing effect: Show explores the evolution of art in the Digital Age 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z They are too decorous, and somewhat solipsistic, caught in their own feedback loop. In Kevin Appel’s paintings, windows to utopia are partially shut 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z She seems to have abandoned her more decorous abstraction for “Half a Head,” a large sharp-nosed not-quite human creature in deep orange surrounded by, but also constrained by black. At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z There’s a lot of energy in Mr. Marnie’s mixed and matched, cut-and-pasted surfaces, for which the decorous floral motif is an excellent foil. Art in Review: ADAM MARNIE: ?Locus Rubric? 2011-09-29T21:52:31Z The Queen was similarly decorous toward authority, but it was aided by the limitations of moviemaking. Netflix’s 'The Crown' Makes the Most of an Unknowable Queen 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z In the case of George Ohr, known as the “Mad Potter of Biloxi”, nature has devolved from being a decorous bouquet to a swampy bayou, as if form has melted in the tropical heat. Feat of clay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Still, Fleming’s artistry tends to be more in line with the decorous ballpark tradition than with the ground and pound of the football stadium. A Super Bowl first: an opera diva to hit anthem’s high note 2014-02-01T22:41:08Z She enjoyed Washington’s sharpest mentors: Lamont for PR and heiress Flora Whitney, spouse of the Navy secretary, for social savoir-faire, coaching straightforward Frank into decorous Frances. The first celebrity first lady: Frances Cleveland He’s produced a decorous and unexpectedly slight show, with the apocalyptic smudges scrubbed away for summer. A Mini-Met-Mashup on the Museum’s Roof, With Summer Views 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The decorous Rhode Island living room depicted in the first act of “Sheltered” is thousands of miles from the decorous Austrian hotel room portrayed in the play’s second act. Review | The drama of saving refugee children in 1939, and a journey that’s just as moving and meaningful today 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Even when the men are pole-vaulting, the dance stays decorous, domesticated. Review: ‘Rice,’ by Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, Honors a Crop and a People 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z “But also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop’ and ‘Beerland’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Natural wood grain modifies abstract severity to soothingly decorous if not galvanizing effect. Art Review: Linde Family Wing at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-09-22T22:25:49Z The rest of the film is a bit too decorous and tidy to count as a major revelation, but it dispenses satisfying doses of humor, pathos and surprise. | 'Albert Nobbs': ?Albert Nobbs? ? Movie Review 2011-12-20T16:46:28Z That now looks like the last flare of classic star charisma, the last time the public could read any imagined voluptuousness into a decorous, sulky princess of "House & Garden." Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z The mystery lies in this book’s provenance and desire, the reason, I suspect, for that decorous reticence where Maes is concerned. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z All three traded in disorientation nearly as much as dance beats, but the early shift was far more decorous. ArtsBeat: The Range of Electronica, Cathedral to Jubilant 2010-10-23T18:09:00Z When the canoodling starts and Ruth gets wind of their decorous romance, the onset of war becomes the least of Sophie’s problems. Review: ‘Sophie and the Rising Sun’ Has Forbidden Love in a Foreboding Time 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z When the novel begins, in nineteen-sixties England, she is a young homemaker with the personality of a lace doily: decorous, brittle, self-consciously antiquated. Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z Sweatshirts embellished with ribbons and appliqués, overblown pansies and sprigs of lace are flippant yet look decorous enough to wear with a streamlined calf-length pencil skirt. Spring Fashion, Hand Yourself Bouquets 2014-04-16T21:59:50Z While the torsos are elevated on pedestals, the pipes appear only on the floor, their curving mouthpieces more sinuous than assertive, more decorous than forceful. Women, divorce and art that turns shame into celebration at Gavlak gallery 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z But “Alex” is an altogether more raucous picture than the decorous “Simon.” ‘Alex Strangelove’: Boy Meets Boy. Awkwardness Ensues. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Mustard beurre blanc is often found providing a decorous yellow veil over a chicken breast or salmon fillet. Babs, a European Grill Where Sparks Fly 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z It announced itself with such gratifying force — registering a 6.8 on the crunch Richter scale and drowning out all hope of decorous conversation with each handful I took up. The tangible joy of quicos, the crunchy Spanish bar snack that's worth the noise 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z His career has been punctuated by such decorous but epic refusals. Doug Wheeler Builds ?Infinity Environment? at David Zwirner 2012-01-15T05:54:30Z It starts and ends something like a parlor song, a piano waltz sung by Welch at her most decorous. The Playlist: Vampire Weekend’s Plucky Return, and 15 More New Songs 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z His marriage to the actress Claire Bloom was a more decorous disaster. Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z The profane, chaotic shenanigans that concluded this season of “Veep” look as decorous as drawing-room comedy next to the actual American presidential campaign. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Pruning back the profanity is a surprisingly decorous gesture from a writer who doesn’t shy away from the vivid and violent, the heightened and intense. Moira Buffini on ‘Dying for It’ at Atlantic Theater 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z It is strange, in an age of female sound and fury, this enduring fixation on a near-silent woman who put forth the decorous veneer of an aristocratic hostess. In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s all just talk but the anarchic swirl and passion of the event make the Houston contest seem as decorous as a mixed-doubles match at Wimbledon. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z At least at Carolina Herrera, you know exactly where you are: this season, in a graphic garden where blooms the sort of decorous good taste that has manners, and a pedigree, of its own. Tommy Hilfiger, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, the Row and More Show at Fashion Week 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z The encounters are, for the most part, unnervingly calm and decorous. Review: ‘The Look of Silence’ Confronts Individuals and Ideology of Indonesian Massacre 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z And from the present, she used blunt language and the shallow, openly artificial sounds of hip-hop percussion, spattering them against the decorous comforts of nostalgia. Review: Lana Del Rey Wonders ‘Is It the End of America?’ on Her New Album 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z These paintings and nine others in the same vein by Corri-Lynn Tetz, who is based in Montreal, present the most decorous, tasteful image of girlhood you could imagine. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z But these clashes were always expressions of Mr. Mortier’s bracing and intellectually charged vision of opera, and his disdain for the decorous irrelevance often associated with it. Gerard Mortier, Opera Visionary, Dies at 70 2014-03-09T12:08:40Z His best dialogue is decorous, with a preposterous thrust. The Stealth Absurdism of Patrick deWitt’s “French Exit” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z He haunted flea markets to buy up stalls’ worth of old jewelry, junk and treasure alike, and remade it into assemblages that were more Dada than decorous. He Changed the Way We Wear Jewelry, and Left It Behind 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Still, Ms. Fleming’s artistry tends to be more in line with the decorous ballpark tradition than with ground and pound of the football stadium. Critic’s Notebook: Renée Fleming Will Sing National Anthem at the Super Bowl 2014-01-31T20:58:30Z Both are covered with moss and studded with Phalaenopsis in a decorous but eye-catching range of whites and pinks. Orchids Take Their Star Turn at the New York Botanical Garden 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The courtroom scenes in Part 3 are decorous but then out of control. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Flouting the proprieties that stifled individuality, he introduced into decorous milieus what was inadmissible — the naked body — and used humor to punch holes in the American dream of the late-20th century. Jimmy DeSana, Downtown Pioneer and Provocateur, Goes Mainstream 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Jones is brisk and decorous, smart and sensitive, though she sometimes leans too heavily into the Brooklyn accent. ‘On the Basis of Sex’ Review: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Became ‘Notorious’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It's a beautifully fashioned piece for eight dancers, and pays thoughtful and decorous homage to the company's heritage. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z His final encore, “If Ever I Would Leave You,” from Lerner and Loewe’s “Camelot,” summed up the recital: calm, burnished, decorous, gorgeous. René Pape in a Solo Recital at the Metropolitan Opera House 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z I look at my performance now and ask myself whether I couldn't have been more decorous and contained – but that's not what the play was about. Brian Cox on his first RSC performance, Titus Andronicus 2013-01-01T17:00:12Z Mr. Bostridge certainly avoids the decorous stage presence adopted by most lieder singers for a more pop-star approach, his lanky frame swaying and twisting as he clutches the piano and staggers unpredictably around the stage. Music Review: At Alice Tully, 19th-Century Pop, Via Brahms 2010-04-01T21:07:00Z They are mostly grouped into collections rather than thematically linked cycles, and for all their elegance and attentive response to the texts, they maintain a discreet emotional distance; it is all very decorous and gentlemanly. The Complete Quilter Songbook Vol 1 – review 2013-03-14T21:40:01Z Rachmaninov's The Rock, an early, rather insubstantial tone poem based on Lermontov, was admirably decorous, though it left you wondering why it was chosen. Classical Philharmonia/Maazel/Trifonov – review 2012-12-14T17:30:01Z A few festivals ago, a company selling an electric viola da gamba offered a short program of duets by Marin Marais in a suitably decorous concert setting. ArtsBeat: Boston Festival a Paradise for Early-Music Fans 2011-06-14T20:19:55Z If you have the slightest amount of decency, the Empress will happily substitute a more decorous prize. New contest for Week 1240: We GIVE you Limerixicon XIV 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z If such provocative presentations were hardly on the schedule last weekend, audiences were not entirely unreceptive to readings that probed underneath the seemingly decorous surfaces of Austen’s novels. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z It’s dance music that does its job with decorous efficiency. Music Review: Booka Shade?s Dancing Mood at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2010-05-26T21:04:00Z Eighteenth-century coronations were like soccer matches: people ate, drank and were not particularly decorous. Westminster Abbey, Scaling Up 2011-04-24T00:49:23Z Mr. Sellars, who has directed Mr. Costanzo in works that included Purcell and Ligeti, said this entrepreneurial mania is a throwback to a period we think of now as decorous and staid. Anthony Roth Costanzo Exists to Transform Opera 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z When the mayor rants about impure races, either he or the screenplay is too decorous to mention Jews. ‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Refusing Hitler, Embracing Beauty 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It's really been something to watch staunchly decorous institutions like the New York Times flail to grasp the profound repulsiveness emanating from the current administration. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Everyone else was willing to offer at least a symbolic nod to decorous formality, to that old-fashioned notion of civility. Perspective | For dignity’s sake, Jim Jordan, put on a jacket 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The Musikverein is stuffed with expensive hairdos and designer labels, and the Usher Hall observes a sort of decorous respectability. Tom Service on the Royal Albert Hall 2012-08-26T19:58:01Z But while islands come in and out of vogue, Mr. Mallea anoints Palm Beach as the most enduring outpost of decorous, sun-kissed leisure for American “magnificoes.” Three New Books On Luxurious Cold-Weather Escapes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z They also embodied the truth that sailing is one of the few activities in which unrelated adults can tell each other to do things without decorous preliminaries, including saying “please.” A senior’s intense, 14-day sailing lesson — from scratch — off the New Zealand coast 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z During the sprightly, slyly decorous Allegro movement, they were able to nudge offbeat accents and sudden fortissimo chords without any sense of pushing. Review: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Opens Its New Concert Hall 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Sheridan specialised in decorous English heroines, giving moderately prim performances in an era when being "ladylike" was considered desirable rather than off-putting. Dinah Sheridan 2012-11-25T19:52:38Z As a man who must negotiate the decorous halls of the contemporary business world, Mr. Abraham’s Shylock keeps a tighter lid on his rage, and on his humiliation, too. | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z Virgil’s decorous Latin gets translated into a language which calls for eloquent Latinate polysyllables: the Sibyl flings the guard-dog Cerberus “a dumpling of soporific honey”. Music from the underworld 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Oddly, the new one is much more cautious and decorous in its treatment of the emotional dynamics of a complicated family. Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z He showed some of these small, decorous pastels in the Impressionist exhibition of 1877, and a group of larger, more aggressive ones in the final Impressionist show of 1886. Art Review: ?Degas and the Nude? at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Review 2011-10-20T20:19:22Z That song from 2000, one of the first breakthrough moments of neo-soul, was slow and decorous and no-frills, the choice of a young R&B singer uninterested in testing himself. A New Global Sound: Synth, Soul and Sample 2010-03-06T00:00:00Z A rejoinder to more decorous historical portraits, Rupert Everett’s chaotic, sensual Oscar Wilde biopic The Happy Prince offers a modern, sympathetically queer reading of a character caught at least a century out a time. How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z On Saturday morning, as slush melted and police officers waved people away from subway lines under repair, protesters assembled to turn Margaret Sanger Square into a decorous, surreal, and occasionally confusing showdown. Another Planned Parenthood Protest Showdown 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z They are also windows into the peculiar relationship between editor and writer, a relationship that is formal, practical and decorous and also unnervingly intimate. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z The treatments take place under decorous white sheets, in a private medical clinic above a plush Victorian sitting room. In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play ? review 2012-05-17T17:09:53Z This is not Wallace Stevens’s decorous, button-down Hartford. ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ Captures a Young Immigrant’s Troubles and Ecstasies 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Now, with less starry collaborators, her work has come to the fore, still decorous but deeper. At the Salzburg Festival, Riches, Retreads and Notes of Caution 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z It was immediately bought by a wealthy friend of Cardinal Del Monte's, who paid for Caravaggio to paint a more decorous replacement that resembled the suave and educated tax-collector in the Calling. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z “There he took her exquisite hands and made apparent his intention to become one with her in a decorous manner.” Michael Dirda reviews Korea’s version of ‘Robin Hood’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z It is music as naked as the nostalgic Rachmaninoff of the Second Piano Concerto is decorous: a baring of the soul. ‘Rachmaninoff Plays Symphonic Dances’ Review: A Master Interprets Himself 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z But for plants stuck in a crowd of other plants, the race for light is anything but decorous; in fact, it is cutthroat. Giving plants the space they need: Why we thin veggies but crowd a hedge 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Krasznahorkai is concerned with limits, with what can happen if language is pushed further than its own decorous rules might suggest. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary. In William Maxwell’s Fiction, a Vivid, Varied Tableau of Midwestern Life 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Here it was rather standard and decorous dance phrases and riffs on games of trust, bodies entangling and caroming as they played with ideas of subatomic particles and dark matter. Dance Review: After Science Meets Art, Everyone Gets Some Cake 2011-03-29T21:47:54Z To call the architecture of the new single-story buildings decorous would be an understatement. Huntington's new visitor center strikes studiously neutral pose 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z That decorous age, with its bourgeois pieties and hypocrisies, was viewed in the distorting mirrors of a criminal underclass, which in turn was meant to reflect the socially corrupt Germany of the 1920s. | 'The Threepenny Opera': ?Threepenny Opera? With Berliner Ensemble at BAM - Review 2011-10-05T16:50:18Z It's a very decorous picture in which a sense of conflict is largely lacking. 'The Cup': And they're off, with a rein on conflict 2012-05-10T20:28:04Z He is an incisive writer and a disciplined and decorous filmmaker, framing and cutting his scenes with clean, almost classical economy. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z I've written before about what I consider Portman's strange unease before the camera, and how this decorous young lady seems reluctant to let loose playing unattractive characters. The Other Woman: Natalie Portman's Best Performance 2011-02-04T00:05:00Z Eliot was a literary mandarin, the confident product of St. Louis Wasp gentry, and an elliptical Catholic royalist given to grave, decorous outbursts of anti-semitism. The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The families are very guarded, very close, very decorous ... Seattle's Peter Lewis: From Campagne to crime fiction 2010-08-06T22:16:00Z But Trump has torn off their decorous, civic-republican covers and agendas and exposed them as the myopic and destructive maneuverings of plutocrats. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Vaughan was known at Doubleday for a decorous manner and democratic instincts. Samuel S. Vaughan, Publisher and Author, Dies at 83 2012-02-01T23:03:09Z His frames are meticulously composed, his camera movements minimal and surgical, his pacing decorous and deliberate. Review: ‘1001 Grams,’ by the Norwegian Filmmaker Bent Hamer, Mixes Levity and Gravity 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Limited in time frame and scope — the work is based on mailings the artist sent to Higgins in the early '60s — it is a slim, decorous volume, printed in muted shades of blue and brown. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Taking decorous turns to assure solo working conditions will not be possible. The Tricky Dance of Sharing a Winery in the Pandemic Era 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Ten minutes before midnight on Monday, the decorous Maryland House of Delegates veered into disorder. Md. Republicans demanded the speaker step aside. Black lawmakers demand an apology. 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z It also opened the door to Pope Francis, a progressive reformer with whom he shared an awkward, if decorous, cohabitation in a Vatican with two popes. Long before he was pope, the man who became Benedict was a central figure in the church. 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z But other main traits of the cozy mystery — decorous crimes committed offstage with a minimum of bloodshed — are not in Penny’s playbook. Louise Penny paints a dark picture in ‘A World of Curiosities’ 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, the two would meet occasionally during the interwar years — both in America and in England — for what seem to have been afternoons of decorous yearning. Review | T.S. Eliot wrote of waste and woe. His private life provided material. 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Some found his methods offensive, or at least insufficiently decorous. ‘Captain Condom’ Turned the Tide in Thailand’s War on AIDS and Overpopulation 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Wade, along with related reports of the court’s internal workings, has transformed a decorous and guarded institution into one riven by politics. A Leaky Supreme Court Starts to Resemble the Other Branches 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z The costume, the jewelry, the decorous pose are all conveyed with superb dexterity, dazzling finesse. Perspective | This dashing self-portrait by Rembrandt is one of his greatest No, but there is a solution to your problem, which has the added benefit of being more formal and decorous: Fill your guests’ plates yourself. Perspective | Miss Manners: Should vegetarians provide meat options at their dinner parties? 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The forces that keep our daily lives on their decorous tracks seem intractable, almost as though they are a part of nature itself. Opinion | Hank the Tank offers a vision of a better life 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z It comes with toppings, decorous or wanton, as you wish: almonds and grated coconut for crunch, sweet-sour currants, nubs of bacon like a strafe of salt. Chicken and Potatoes With Commanding Flavor 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Russell Moore’s baptism in 1983 was a decorous occasion, or at least as decorous as possible when the main event consists of being plunged underwater in front of one’s entire church. Horse Troughs, Hot Tubs and Hashtags: Baptism Is Getting Wild 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z And the public comment portions of board meetings have generally remained short and decorous. Nation’s school boards face dark new reality of abuse, threats 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Shown in standard, waist-high, three-quarter view, she appears decorous and composed while accompanied by two unexpected pets, both shown in profile. Review: Hans Holbein struts his stuff at the Getty Museum 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The English countryside, with the occasional decorous stray leaf, is gorgeous; you can sense a slight chill in the air. 4 fall movies that celebrate the beauty of autumn 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z "This is a long way from the more decorous treatment of Netflix's The Crown." Rave reviews for Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in new film Spencer 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z But if that was his calculus, McCarthy was decorous to a fault. Fact check: Yes, Kevin McCarthy, people still publicly doubt Biden’s victory 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z They took their place at a decorous folding table as the guests lined up for Korean barbecue. With rumors of eviction swirling, an Echo Park homeless couple take their wedding vows 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The setting may be a decorous Zoom rehearsal, but internally it’s a war zone. Review: In 'The Gaze ... No Homo,' a Black and queer actor navigates the white theater world 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z There were some less decorous crowd moments, as well. Australian Open goes quiet as lockdown keeps crowds away 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z Several Republicans, including lawmakers who have had Covid-19, continue to resist wearing masks elsewhere in the Capitol, and a nasty spat broke out about the practice on Monday on the normally decorous Senate floor. As Grassley Tests Positive, Virus Threatens to Stall Work in Congress 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z If you had to ask what was behind those decorous scrims, you were encouraged to just move along. To Survive the Pandemic, Savile Row Cuts a Bespoke Strategy 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z These critiques rest on the presumption that our usual “decorous” debates are a sacrosanct institution that’s crucial to the democratic process. Perspective | Actually, the first presidential debate was terrific 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s worth watching the video to see how Ocasio-Cortez, without particular outrage or emotion, pronounces three words that explode like smart bombs in the decorous House. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's eloquence in the face of arrogance is a master class | Francine Prose 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Their standard-bearer was Millard Fillmore, the last Whig president, a decorous figurehead. Jared Kushner is a Know Nothing – not just because he has failed on so many fronts | Sidney Blumenthal 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Yiadom-Boakye constructs her figures with firm, declarative brushwork on linen or heavy canvas, rather than the more genteel, decorous bravura often undertaken by a Romney or a Reynolds. Review: At the Huntington Library, 'Blue Boy' and 'Pinkie' get new neighbors 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But instead of baldly saying, “My opponent is lying,” Warren and Sanders offered decorous tangents. Opinion | Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are pulling apart in more ways than one 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The Democrats are seeking to replace the inept and vulgar face of empire that is Trump with the benign and decorous face of empire that is Joe Biden. The impeachment's moral hypocrisy 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z This was largely a decorous debate that will be forgotten in a news cycle or two. Overshadowed by impeachment, debating Democrats mostly pull punches 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z At precisely 9am, with only a handful of lawmakers present and the public gallery nearly empty, a voice boomed across the decorous chamber: “All rise.” With a rap of the gavel, House gets to work on historic impeachment day 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Politics in Britain has never been decorous, and it was far from gentle in 2015. The Choice Between Labour and Leave in the U.K. General Election 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z The proceedings, which took place a few blocks away, after lunch, were more decorous but more alarming. In Congress and at the Justice Department, a Bad Day for Fact, Fairness, and the Future 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z With a glass-enclosed corner cylinder punctuating its outer walls, Crate & Barrel was a dramatic departure from the decorous, limestone-clad buildings of North Michigan Avenue. Inside the world’s largest Starbucks, opening Friday in Chicago 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z However, the decisions most central to the commonwealth’s future are being made in law offices, decorous courtrooms and in Washington, D.C., as creditors tangle with the oversight board over the massive public debt. Puerto Rico erupts at governor, but power resides far away 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Formed in the rebellion’s wake, GLF was more radical than earlier groups that staged pioneering, decorous demonstrations. Stories of Stonewall: How the LGBTQ rebellion left a legacy 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Shechter’s choreography shifts some of the dances from decorous and quaint to impassioned and even a little dangerous. Review: ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ national tour brings new moves to a classic musical 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The F-word word in question, which government lawyer Malcolm Stewart described as “the paradigmatic profane word in our culture,” was not uttered openly in the famously decorous courtroom. U.S. justices watch their language as they consider profane trademarks 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Although the work pays homage to the Japanese value of gaman, the ability to endure the unbearable with patience and dignity, the show is too decorous. ‘Japs Keep Moving’: Racist signs of the past point us to the present 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The Times story was downright decorous compared to the pounding that Biden is taking in liberal media outlets. Joe Biden's real problem: Lefty complaints he's not liberal enough 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Republicans have privately urged Trump to be more decorous about their late colleague, but most have done little in response to the continued attacks, aside from veiled criticisms. Trump attacks McCain again, saying he didn’t get a ‘thank you’ for approving late senator’s funeral 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z When one referred to the “gentleman in the White House,” the otherwise decorous group hooted. Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, Models of Power for Black Women 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Fresh from on high, she lands not in a stutter or a rush but with one foot at a decorous angle and the other taking a gently purposeful stride. “Mary Poppins Returns”—with a Spoonful Less Sugar 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Nevertheless, his decorous manner often concealed objectives that were far darker than the “kinder, gentler” vision he promoted. Bush's sordid Saudi ties set template for Trump – he was just more subtle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z As Europe devolved into barbarism in the early years of the First World War, Debussy adopted a decorous, formally controlled style that looked back to the aristocratic poise of the French Baroque. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z In a new administration there are a couple of decorous times to exit. Haley’s surprise kicks off cabinet speculation 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z But until now, such remarks were delivered in private, in fairly decorous terms, and rarely threatened direct action. Pence’s China Speech Seen as Portent of ‘New Cold War’ 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Democrats on the typically staid, decorous committee immediately interrupted Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who leads the panel, as he opened the proceedings. A New Reality for Court Confirmations: Pandemonium, Protesters and Partisanship 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Gleeson’s finely crafted performance is key to this transformation — with his friendly yet decorous demeanor gradually revealing a manipulative edge. Review | The director of ‘Room’ is back with another movie you won’t be able to shake 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Mexico City government events have tended to be slightly more decorous. Scantily clad models — long a fixture in Mexico — are banned at official events in Mexico City 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “Hello, Ma’am,” Shang said, with a decorous nod. How E-Commerce Is Transforming Rural China 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z He was decorous and high-minded almost to a fault; he even used the pompous old phrase “your excellency” to refer to a state governor. Opinion | There was one unifying theme of Anthony Kennedy’s jurisprudence 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The normally decorous Senate has been rocked by heated confrontations this week as fellow Republicans have traded personal and profane insults over how much loyalty to show President Trump. Animosity in the Senate as GOP trades insults over criticism of Trump 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Shouldn’t this image be more horrific than decorous? A 14-foot-long painting of trash makes an epic argument for 'The Feminine Sublime' 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s the bless-your-heart brand of gentility that is decorous and polished on the surface but sharp and piercing just below that. Perspective | The genius of Tom Wolfe’s white suits 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Sepp Blatter, then Fifa’s general secretary, boasted before the tournament began that, as a result of their fair play initiative, “players will behave in a decorous manner in all phases of the match”. World Cup stunning moments: Cameroon shock Argentina in 1990 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z When tabloid-style news of this event broke in the usually decorous Financial Times on Wednesday, the recoil was immediate. How an undercover female reporter exposed sexual misconduct at a London charity bash 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The year before, things had been slightly less decorous. In Trump’s Immigration Remarks, Echoes of a Century-Old Racial Ranking 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Other times, other manners: how decorous our forefathers were, even when hungover! The big picture: New Year’s Day in 1940s New York 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Like most of the time, it was a quiet, decorous force for good in our community—back when evangelical meant you’d sometimes invite someone to come with you. Has Support for Moore Stained Evangelicals? Some Are Worried 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Her character is also the only one to understand how absurd the situation is and to grasp the raw currents of power and lust that surge under the decorous surface. The 10 Best Actors of the Year 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z The gun control protest against the NRA’s number one priority piece of legislation was small and decorous. Five years on, Sandy Hook campaigners refuse to give up despite Washington inertia 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z But even as the city is one of Afghanistan’s most decorous and peaceful, an air of intrigue infuses Herat. Iran Gains Ground in Afghanistan as U.S. Presence Wanes 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z It was Augustine who rescued it from the decorous oblivion to which it seemed to be heading. How St. Augustine Invented Sex 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z His 25-year-old son Ronnie died of cancer a week ago, and behaving in any kind of decorous manner is the last thing on his mind. 'One Week and a Day' works through grief, one toke at a time 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z However, if you’re pining for the good old days of decorous hearings and confirmations by acclamation, stop. The Good Old Days of Supreme Court Nominations? They Don’t Exist. 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It was the day before the presidential election and I would have asked anyone, but I was particularly interested because she was a decorous, middle-aged Black woman. Does the 'Cyrus prophecy' help explain evangelical support for Donald Trump? | James S Gordon 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Eyes lock, hearts stop, and soon—after a few decorous dates—Seretse is down on one knee, offering Ruth a ring and the prospect of a life together. “A United Kingdom” Is Nourishing and Mild 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He added, “Despite its determination to make us gasp, ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ is finally too decorous for its own good. Indie Focus: Crossing the spectrum with 'John Wick: Chapter 2,' 'A United Kingdom' and 'Fifty Shades Darker' 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The effortful diction suggests the exertions involved for this decorous man to contain “the havoc within me.” A Neglected South American Masterpiece 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Pressed about that, McConnell dispensed with the usual decorous wind of nonsense about procedure and declared a blunt belief in zero-sum politics. Senate Republicans Gut the Confirmation Process 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Signs around the Hotel Bel-Air, where Martin Scorsese likes to stay when he’s in Los Angeles, make their decorous hopes known. 'Silence' is the movie Martin Scorsese has waited a lifetime to make 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z They dance to the music of a trio of onstage musicians playing sometimes scrappy and scratchy rearrangements by violinist Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin of Tchaikovsky’s original, decorous suite of social dances. ‘The Nutcracker’ Review: Waltzing in the Windy City 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z For the U.S. this represents a sharp shift from 30 or 40 years ago, when the political debate was often polite to the point of being decorous. Politics Is Looking More ‘Latin American’ These Days 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z By American standards, especially in the age of Donald Trump, contemporary German politics is decorous and understated. The New Star of Germany’s Far Right 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter called "earnest, decorous, and - dare we say - a tad dull". Toronto 2016: Snowden explores 'secret underworld' says Oliver Stone - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z He engaged in some decorous maneuvering and decided that she was the woman he wanted to marry. Moment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans’ American Life 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Justice Samuel Alito took the remarkable step of reading his dissent from the bench – an act reserved only for when justices, usually decorous even in defeat, passionately disagree with a ruling. US supreme court upholds affirmative action at University of Texas 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Typical of the more restrained and decorous Senate, Mr. Murphy’s speeches last week were derided by Republicans as a pointless “talkathon,” but there were no confrontations and no shouting. House Democrats’ Gun-Control Sit-In Turns Into Chaotic Showdown With Republicans 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z "It was my first introduction to the Third World and poverty," Richard says, though he saw another, more decorous side of Ethiopia. How suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst became an 'honorary Ethiopian' - BBC News 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Trump himself does not seem to be ready to let the Republicans sit on the sidelines in decorous silence. Republicans Express Shock at Trump, But Stand by Him 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z He is adept at making fashion magic within the decorous walls of the Met. Can machine-made fashion dazzle like handmade couture? Yes, and the Met proves it. 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z These decorously posed tableaux speak to Crumb’s less decorous fascination with the bodies of black women. Robert Crumb: ‘I was born weird' 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z I read an email thread from a group of conservative women—very bright, all ages, all decorous and dignified. That Moment When 2016 Hits You 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z And yet he seemed to think it was clever. Cruz, the epitome of decorous sanctimony, had made it impossible to explain what he was saying without diving into crudity and inviting disgust. Donald and Melania and Heidi and Ted 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Now, days after one of the least decorous debates in modern political history, his remaining opponents will face off against him Thursday night in what could be the final match for two of them. Republicans debate with Rubio and Kasich candidacies on the line 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Typically, it begins as a dignified process, with a White House ceremony and a series of decorous photo opportunities in Senate offices. In Senate Brawl Over Court Nominee, Knuckles Will Be Bare 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z It was not, he wrote: “There were no leers, no smirks. This decorous group could have been standing in line at a church supper.” A Former Calvin Klein Underwear Model Celebrates a Unique Birthday 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z They can be alternately decorous, disagreeable and aggressively distasteful. Fall of the House of Bush 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Firth said it had been a challenge to play the restrained and decorous Perkins while Law was going full throttle. Theatre's Grandage says was nervous making 'Genius' for Berlin 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Bush, who has often expressed disbelief at Mr. Trump’s behavior, conjured the unlikely prospect of his decorous father, the former president, behaving in such a fashion. With a Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Yet his supporters admire him for being smart, decorous and just as committed to public service as other members of his famous family, including his father George H.W. Jeb Bush Sticks to His Story 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Kerry made a pitch for a more decorous democracy, saying violence is unacceptable. Kerry: Tear gas in parliament is wrong 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z That’s because, for a nation that prides itself on its decorous behavior, last year was ugly. Britain Adopts Black Friday With an All-American Frenzy 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z This country’s architects and designers are still capable of great work - decorous and fitting, gracious and natural - even if superstars like Frank Gehry and his vast team of consultants aren’t. Roundup of Arkansas editorials 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z The feminine, rather decorous paper was “a good place to start, but not where you want to finish,” said Mr. Bilhuber. An Attic Renovation That Looks Original 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Even in a comparatively decorous sport like tennis, that kind of alpha personality pays dividends. How the Science of Siblings Shaped Venus and Serena 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z In British theatres, once the curtain is raised, we are used to decorous behaviour and respectful silence. A Point of View: Why the row between Greece and Germany is like a lovers' tiff - BBC News 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Ted Cruz took to the Senate floor Friday and charged that Mitch McConnell told a “lie,” escalating his campaign against GOP leaders and challenging the traditions of the usually decorous chamber. Republicans schedule new 'Obamacare' repeal vote 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Above all, Iwata established and maintained a decorous tone often at odds with his competitors. Why Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Mattered 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Past the cordons, the atmosphere in the arena was surprisingly decorous, especially compared with the raucous scene at the weigh-in. Floyd Mayweather’s Longest Fight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Once described by George F. Will as a "self-effacing and decorous WASP," he grew up on Long Island in a prosperous household headed by his newspaper-clipping mother, Joyce, and businessman father William Sr. William Zinsser dies at 92; author of bestselling 'On Writing Well' 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The court used to be a more decorous institution. Justices’ Opinions Grow in Size, Accessibility and Testiness, Study Finds 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Comprising about 20 percent of GMC’s customers, Denali buyers also demonstrate some of the hallmarks of a proud but decorous club of below-the-radar fans. As GMC Sizzles, The Denali Effect Creates A Big Part Of Its Success 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Even though it can be revealing, as the crop top leaves the midriff bare, the sari blouse has long been deemed decorous and associated with tradition. Dressing the Indian woman 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z One never knows what he’s going to do next and what he does next is not always decorous. Mickelson's WD: Is Phil being Phil an acceptable excuse?: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z The criticism for his less than decorous language and behaviour online grew sharper in the wake of Sunday’s comments. Italian politician under fire after labelling English ‘pretentious pricks’ 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z But on the question of violence against women in public spaces, restoring the decorous silence that once prevailed here may not be easy. Egyptian Government Criticized Anew Over Response to Sexual Assaults 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z It would now be decorous for the pols to pay up and shut up. Boehner and Pelosi Resist Cries for Ouster of Veterans Affairs Chief 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The atmosphere in the crowded auditorium was less decorous than European parliamentarians are used to. The democracy carousel 2014-04-16T17:20:00.658Z But there are more decorous ways of handling a colleague who’s not able to do what you want on your timetable. Revealed At Last: 15 Things You Do That Drive Your Colleagues Crazy 2013-11-26T01:32:00Z But really, there was never any likelihood that what memorialised their loved ones would be modest or decorous, anymore than what replaced the fallen towers would be unassuming. Rebuilding after 9/11 2013-11-22T17:44:10Z "In a decorous, honorable, brave and dignified way, he has asked for forgiveness," Maduro said. Venezuela politics soiled by sordid claims, gay slurs 2013-08-15T19:47:56Z They were all decorous, even the young ones—even those reproachable few who lingered with one hip against the corners of desks. Fiona McFarlane: “Art Appreciation.” 2013-05-06T04:00:00Z Rejecting the idealized and decorous classicism of his predecessors, he dramatized his compositions with his use of vivid lighting and insisted on humanizing his subjects by painting from life with all its particulars. | Connecticut: ‘Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy,’ Is at the Wadsworth Atheneum 2013-05-04T00:25:49Z History Meets Opportunity On a sunny afternoon, the Municipal Building’s statue of Civic Fame glitters above East Broadway like a vision of decorous prosperity. | East Broadway: Where Chinatown and the Lower East Side Meet, a Sense of Opportunity 2012-10-21T03:00:02Z Nor was there anything decorous about the contingent of lawyers that trailed with a smaller truck urging “Yes Iowa Judges.” High-profile vote for Iowa Supreme Court 2012-10-08T22:59:28Z It's more decorous, it's more ritualistic in the American parliament. How unruly is the Scottish Parliament? 2012-09-10T10:43:33Z For Hornung it is the game of the high Victorian summer, orderly, masculine, decorous, part of an unchanging British tradition. Anthony Quinn: cricket and the novel 2012-05-25T21:55:14Z And we were once more sitting decorous, and about Eve's lips and in her eyes was that smile of joy and happiness. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z It was curious that this man, who in Rhodes had appeared so sinister and powerful and almost irresistible, should here in this decorous room with only a background of good-breeding appear fussy and ineffective. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z They were driving along a quiet road of decorous Georgian houses, at the end of which was a castellated gateway. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z After a very decorous and manly remonstrance, Colonel Hore withdrew his headquarters and his men sixteen miles across the border to Ramathlabama Camp, from which point the enlistment of the Protectorate Regiment was continued. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z The bellows play a conspicuous and not always decorous part. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z These received the extraordinary tidings with decorous politeness, promised faithfully to deliver the message, and the prophet, well satisfied, went his way. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z We only ask them to be publicly decorous. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z The note of Athens is a perfectly decorous liveliness, which is never marred by vulgarity. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z No disguise of decorous matronly garments or assumption of a demure manner could conceal from him Antonia's real girlish charm. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z He puts off many of his old ways, he dresses himself in a decorous garb and style; and so deceives himself into thinking that he is new, while his heart is unchanged. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It became evident to him that it would be nice to take Ann by the hand; even the decorous novelettes Sid affected egged him on to that greater nearness of intimacy. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z During the last six or seven years it has grown more decorous, but prior to that time its vulgarity was excessive. Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England 2012-03-14T02:00:28.613Z But when you see Mr. Clinton Scollard in his decorous cutaway drinking a milk shake in a drug store, how are you to guess his profession? The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z And oh! how demure and decorous they all looked, with their dark hair parted in the middle and severely plastered down the sides of their rosy young faces. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z But about fifteen minutes later it was four decorous young Dorrances who accompanied their grandmother to the dining-room. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z There was the hoidenish young girl, and the decorous, elegant lady smoothing down "the wild little thing." Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It is always decorous to suit your pace to those you would assist. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Others say women use language to assert their power in a culture that, at least in days gone by, asked them to be sedate and decorous. Young Women Often Trendsetters in Vocal Patterns 2012-02-27T18:06:58Z Being a person of eminent respectability, M. Galland dwelt in a smug street within decorous propinquity of the fashionable Place Royale. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Better far to have announced her sudden and much-to-be-regretted demise, to have performed decorous obsequies, and then quietly have taken possession. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z The "kiss of peace" is an interesting and decorous feature of the daily worship, and is always given at the beginning, even if it should be omitted at the close. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Sometimes circumstances render it decorous to pass on with some courteous phrase, to step into some neighboring bookseller's, etc., or to make a rapid appointment for a re-union. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Another thing worthy of remark is, the quiet and decorous manner in which they behave in a place of worship. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z Than the outgoings and incomings of the inhabitants of Lorge nothing could appear more decorous and respectable, and yet as regarded a prospect of lasting peace, that group was composed of the least promising elements. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z I have had an unacknowledged letter from you longer than is decorous. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Even the decorous Cybele laughed in her marble sleeve. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z With that he dismissed me; but this time, being somewhat stung by his warning, I retired with a more decorous step. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Jim laid the coat tenderly in the valise, coaxing it into decorous folds, and wondering at the same time where his master was. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z Only, Mr. Mudge doubtfully wondered, after the husband had entered, and when the great scene took place, would the decorous accent of the comedy be maintained? The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Will it not be decorous, and humane, and in accordance with the golden rule, for the men, women, and children of Massachusetts, to permit the accused to have an impartial trial? Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z In one moment he had changed back again from the Fantee savage to the decorous Oxford clergyman. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z We just, quite accidentally, started doing so in a more decorous manner, as a function of having stood up. Sick People Smell Bad: Why dogs sniff dogs, humans sniff humans, and dogs sometimes sniff humans 2012-01-15T19:15:00.200Z In the large place which the details of good living fill in his plays, Plautus exaggerates a tendency which is discernible in the more decorous fictions of Scott and Dickens. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Candlestick’s chilly conditions contributed to the less than decorous behavior of its fans. Candlestick Park Journal: Before Candlestick Park?s Lights Go Out for Good 2012-01-13T04:55:11Z Distant Bainville seemed like a haven of safety; even the decorous, narrow, monotony of its dim life had a new attraction. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z These sober, sallow-faced men sat, for the most part, with downcast eyes, speaking rarely, and without gesticulation, and in a low and decorous tone of voice. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z His nod was pleasure, and his full bow bliss; How did his well-thumbed hat, with ardor rapt, Its decorous curve to every rank adapt! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z The woman, who bathed the Master's feet with tears, is in this case a beautiful and decorous person, a center of attraction. The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ 2012-01-07T03:00:14.777Z Their behavior was modest, unassuming, and decorous in a high degree. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z But the calm contentment of Andrew Dykeman's face, and the decorous bliss of Miss Elder's were untroubled by what anyone thought or said. The Crux 2012-01-12T03:00:12.630Z "I'll be glad to," he answered, with just the suggestion of a smile, for the combination of Martin the decorous servant and Martin the eager speculator was one which never failed to amuse him. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z On the bench he had complete control over his temper; he was always urbane and decorous and usually dignified. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The company was, to every outer regard, decorous to the point of stiffness. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z It is useless, and it certainly is not decorous, to contend against that opinion now. The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell 2011-12-24T03:08:06.653Z The collection of crowds, even of the most decorous nature, is most objectionable to others. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z Urban VIII, to whom this appeal was addressed, was one of those decorous ecclesiastics whom the counter-reformation had substituted for the more picturesque figures of Renaissance Rome. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Girls find a deep satisfaction in being good—in being neat, in being clean, in being decorous. Atlantic Classics, Second Series 2011-12-09T03:00:20.203Z That usually decorous officer tilted his cap to the back of his head, and thrust his hands into his breeches pockets--hardly the regulation attitude in the presence of superiors. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z All of which puts him in mind of those knocks on the door in Brooklyn decades ago, and of the decorous way his father answered. On Religion: A Traditional Jewish Loan Program Helps Ease Pain of Tough Economic Times 2011-12-02T16:00:26Z Yet nothing could have been more decorous than his bearing; while he spoke with the softly modulated voice with which a well-trained servant ought to speak. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z I wandered along contemplating the various greens of the mosses that adorn the path and muffle the footsteps in a manner extremely suitable to the decorous quiet of the surroundings. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Possibly the expression of this pious wish in some degree relieved his feelings, for he followed the boys, though at a much more decorous pace, through the gate. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Mrs. Hardy glanced sharply from one to the other, and then she also laughed, in decorous matronly fashion. A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:44.097Z Everybody thought her charming when she glided from the dining-room, in decorous retreat before that little anti-feminine bayonet, the after-dinner cigar. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z I have spoken of them in general as leaving something to be desired as to decorous conduct, but they will doubtless improve when placed in positions of consideration and responsibility. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z I looked behind me up the street, and saw a small, decorous party of men, flanked by a couple of stalwart keepers in uniform. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z After a decorous interval, Lord —— had put a few questions to him about Colonel Tempest, his age, political views, etc. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z She turned to Miss Arnott a flushed and angry face, looking very unlike the staid and decorous servant with whom that young lady was accustomed to deal. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z She knew that the decorous butler who waited on her would perceive her efforts to choke down the proffered food. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The Tagal possesses a great deal of self-respect, and his demeanour is quiet and decorous. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z I was now aware of two helmeted presences on the car, and a decorous voice said that the gentlemen were welcome to a side of the car if they liked. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z I believe he thinks a prospective union, deferred for five years, with such a decorous, reliable personage, would be a very proper and advisable affair. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z The word "ceremonial" is used advisedly, since nothing could have been more formal and decorous than his demeanour throughout. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z Claire's spirits seemed to rise as the decorous yet lavish banquet proceeded. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Most of the women had been deported from Manila as undesirable characters in that decorous city. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z In its clean groves and spacious halls The quiet-eyed inhabitants Hold innocent sunny festivals And mingle in decorous dance; Things that destroy, distort, deface, Come never to that lovely place. Poems - First Series 2011-10-28T02:00:21.917Z This was decorous, well-ordered England, where Nature was broken to man's dominion centuries ago. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z Morbid and passionate, flippant, austere, boisterous, decorous,—anything, everything a room may be which a human creature may be; and that range, as most of us know, is almost unlimited. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z His religious principles were by no means those of a strict Jew, although he maintained a decorous respect for the outward ordinances of religion. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z Generally speaking, 19th century women’s magazines were mere disseminators of fine and decorous ideas and practices for well-mannered ladies; their editors were not innovators. Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States 2011-10-03T02:00:33.640Z The old peasant assumed a respectful, decorous, submissive attitude as became her social position, and made a quick estimate at the age of the other woman. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Everywhere he heard regrets that it was too late to have a share in the actual whipping of Germany—that we were only going to fight a decorous and inglorious war on paper. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Still, however, there was nothing to alarm, and little to engage the attention of Juliet; for though ostentatiously gallant, he was scrupulously decorous. The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z Besides these reunions, to which all the acquaintance of the mistress of the house were of course admitted, there were sometimes parties by invitation, when the refreshments were sufficient and decorous. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z She was good-natured, easy-going, and popular with her friends, who marvelled at what it was she had seen in the sedate and decorous Mr. Hearty to prompt her to marry him. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z They continued to sit in decorous silence, looking with vacant faces straight before them, till the next performer appeared. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Later, when the painter became closely related to refined and well-to-do patricians, his peasants also became more prosperous and polite; in a word, more decorous. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z This, if not so generally popular with the company as other less decorous tales before and after it, enjoyed at least a genuine succès d’estime. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z For the catholics of Nismes, I believe them to be more devout and more decorous than those of the rest of France. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z There was some delay in crowning the new Czar owing, says the Court Circular with decorous gravity, to the illness and death of the late Emperor's widow who survived her husband but five months. Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z This was her decorous method of intimating that she was about to put Marise's dinner on the table. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z You will half undress of an evening, and blush to be discovered in a perfectly decorous petticoat. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z The aid of additional pins was requisitioned, and the unruly lock was brought into subjection, and tucked out of sight beneath the unrelenting brim of the eminently decorous hat. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z There he promptly acquiesced to the decorous customs of the New England town, and went to a lecture; on his way home from his intellectual refreshment, he asked the time of a well-dressed man. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z They found that the island was clean and decorous again, for it had only recently changed hands. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z They sat in a decorous silence, waiting for the beginning of the program. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z These last words were addressed to a very respectable-looking person, whom the servant had ushered in, and who bowed to us in a very decorous and unassuming fashion. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 2/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:33.793Z No frivolous abandon is allowed; pins, and even pomade, are resorted to, until what is undoubtedly beautiful in itself is rendered sufficiently unbecoming to soothe the most fastidiously decorous mind. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z In reality he had come home to look after his affairs, which had grown burdensomely prosperous, and then sail back with all the decorous haste allowable. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z I am at heart conventional, decorous, sensitive to ridicule. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z She continued to gaze at a certain spot in the curtain, her face framed in her heavy velvet hat, composed in decorous vacancy. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z In Harry's middle distance another more decorous swing-door vibrated to and fro, with a sharp smell of hops, a rattle of glasses, a voice reckless but good-humoured—proposing a like libation. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z The decorous piety, and exemplary life of the quaker has signally exempted him from this most severe of human infirmities. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z Dravid is the most decorous, most gentlemanly of all the Indian cricketers. England 591-6, India 300 and 129-3 2011-08-21T19:13:15Z Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings; and, failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z At least, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Spencer were a decorous couple, he given to amassing this world’s goods, she devoted to a thrifty oversight of their expenditures and to a calm enjoyment of their prosperity. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z It was close on midnight, the more decorous streets into which he presently emerged deserted, for intermittent clouds were now blotting the moonlight and a sprinkle of rain was falling. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Science appears in his language in a dress wonderfully decorous, the best adapted to display her native loveliness. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z His letter transmitting his Dialogue with the Gout to Madame Brillon was not so decorous. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Her conduct was however more decorous than her father’s, notwithstanding that she was distinctly less religious than he—less religious in principle, in inward conviction and in outward worship. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z Another is a head-spinning superabundance of story dispensed in a manner that manages to be both decorous and frenzied. A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z However, he removed his foot from the accelerator and drew up at the police-station of the little old market town in a perfectly decorous fashion. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z At the second bell the long lines of girls began a decorous filing down the aisles to the great doors. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z But every outward sign that can be displayed at will is liable to abuse, and so men sometimes fasted when they were not really sad, but when it was decorous to appear so. Pastor Pastorum 2011-07-25T02:00:14.597Z In her high land there were ominous volcanic peaks, while in the decorous plain of Elizabeth’s character there was a monotonous blending of vegetation and sand. Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z One Sunday I rode in a Miles Platting tram car, amid decorous, well-dressed chapel-going people—several of them young and active. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z A coffee-room discussion, conducted by mechanics, is now a more decorous exhibition than a debate in Parliament was in the days of Canning.* The Principles Of Secularism 2011-07-22T02:00:17.390Z Once the gate had swung behind her 41 she dropped into a more decorous gait as she hurried along the wide, shady street toward school. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z Since loving him, I have first known a sense of what the moralist would call decorous reserve. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z The eyes were trained to be very subdued and decorous in their expression; but they did so want to flash out authority, if not arrogance! The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z “Circulate the intoxicants, Turner—or, in plainer and more decorous English, pass the bottle,” cried the rector, as the door closed on his daughters, leaving the men to themselves. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z In its clean groves and spacious halls The quiet-eyed inhabitants Hold innocent sunny festivals And mingle in decorous dance; Things that destroy, distort, deface, Come never to that lovely place. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z It consists in nocturnal visits of the young man to the young woman's house, visits which although frequently attended by immorality, are not necessarily so, and are often perfectly decorous and formal. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z We met, and on the decorous drive touched hands, "Good-bye; a pleasant trip to you," I said. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z He remembered how decorous and dignified was the Mogul court when Britain paid honor to an ancient dynasty. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z A little wizened, elderly man with grey hair closely cropped to his head, and dressed in a decorous lounge suit of black, came drooping into the room. A Butterfly on the Wheel 2011-06-21T02:00:24.683Z Wyllys extricated himself promptly and creditably, and as if her proposal were entirely decorous and ladylike. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Nothing could have been more decorous than her demeanor; her beautiful eyes seemed heavy with unshed tears, and Christianity itself is not more gentle than her tone and manner. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z His decorous note of scientific caution was destined to be ignored, and the study is now routinely cited in sales pitches for growth-hormone supplements. Amortality: Young or Old, Why It's No Longer Necessary to Act Your Age 2011-06-11T17:33:50Z No high-born dame was she; no fortunate next-of-kin, watching with decorous lament for the moment of emancipation from her weary wait for a dead woman's shoes. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Our hero, whom we have observed so decorous in “his rule of ceremony,” now launches forth in the commendation of his own prowess. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z During those sad, precious "last days," the disengaged pair were, of necessity, often left to entertain one another for hours together, and their decorous friendship had matured naturally and gracefully into an equally decorous intimacy. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z A dance would better have suited Miss Lucy's feelings when she left Dr. Bell's office, than the decorous walk to which she held her feet. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z Romana was the fairest of all the young girls, a rose among flowers; the youths of the country round were consumed by love of her, but in her presence they were filled with decorous respect. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z St. Udo Brand, the tardy heir, was present, quietly waiting to hear the reading of the will with that decorous gravity with which we wait to bear our honors. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The party has the most decorous space, having redesigned its office with glass walls and tall windows. Workers of the World, Please See Our Web Site 2011-05-23T01:54:21Z Nay, there was nothing so decorous as a walk possible down the slippery, stony descent which led to the haunts of the pickerel. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z “Trying to get a husband,” whether couched in the decorous phrase of polite society, or in the uncompromising language of more primitive circles, is the death-warrant of a girl’s good name. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z If the display of excessive grief is thus shown to be only grievous to the dead, yet they are held to be keenly sensible of a lack of due and decorous respect. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z His repressive power was almost forsaking him, and it was with difficulty that he preserved that decorous gentleness of manner which he had donned with such care. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z "I came from the upper water with Brig," answered Bowles, speaking for his part with decorous politeness. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Of the story of apathy, age after decorous age going by! Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z Then the young men would wink at one another, and so indicating that they were in league together against Semyon Ivanovitch, would begin a conversation, at first strictly proper and decorous. White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X 2011-05-07T02:00:35.433Z Many were thrilled that after two years of celebrating Mass in tents, they would return to more decorous surroundings. Castiglione a Casauria Journal: Abbey?s Restoration Is First Stitch to Heal a Gash in Central Italy?s Landscape 2011-05-04T23:53:29Z Nowhere else has the prophet so fully and vehemently set forth his doctrine of indulgence; too Albigensian or antinomian this time to be given out again in more decorous form. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Yesterday such a thing would have been deemed indecorous; to-day it is not only decorous, but rather chic, provided that the pace be slow; to-morrow—what will it be then? Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The first hand or two proceeded in decorous silence. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z The region is so decorous, and acts of violence are so foreign to its dignity and repose, that I could scarce believe that I held that bit of tan leather in my hand. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z The clergy here are all extremely clean and respectable-looking, and very decorous and reverential, both out of church and in. John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z All the important social functions of Deep Harbor took place there, and some, if gossip were true, not quite so decorous as these. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z She reached the gates and slackened her pace to a decorous walk. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z An habitual respect for the decorous observances of polite life was deemed an essential in one whose opinions were as often to be listened to in questions of right feeling as of right doing. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z But by far the most celebrated imitation of Plautus is the Amphitrion of Moliere, who has managed with much delicacy a subject in itself not the most decorous. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z Amazed at himself, Allard obeyed, humiliatingly aware that he had been scarcely decorous and certainly unwise. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z The manners of the inhabitants are lively, but in general decorous; and whenever crowds are accidentally assembled, they disperse without tumult. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z But the commander himself was grave, almost decorous. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z Down the other steps comes mrs. opie, a prim, decorous, but well bred and unobjectionable woman. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z There was a time, when, in this country, it was thought scarcely decorous or becoming to express high admiration of the genius of Rousseau or Voltaire. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z She was a very decorous little Princess, and the proud father wrote home to Coburg that she "behaved with great propriety and did not cry at all." In the Days of Queen Victoria 2011-03-17T02:00:14.783Z Here all was again decorous, but hideous in the extreme. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z It would have been both more discreet and more decorous, to have submitted patiently. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z If the more decorous court of Charles I., however, overlooked this deficiency, it was not for that of Charles II. to take objection to it. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z As to the petit souper, it had been decorous; and beyond the fact that Mesdemoiselles Aim�e and Louise were agreeable ladies with excellent appetites, his knowledge of these damsels did not extend. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z It was much with a sense of decorous observance, of reverential respect, that he made haste to bury his slain hopes, his foolish dream, his ardent expectations out of sight, never to rise again. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z The first remark may sound Too free and easy, but his manner is decorous in the extreme. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Decorum is a species of control; it is much more comfortable not to be decorous; and also as to French, she still maintained the old views, although she was a good German. Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:17.540Z Indeed, all the material bears the unconcealable marks of its origin as lectures, it being extremely difficult to turn into decorous chapters in a book, stuff which first took shape as spontaneous and informal lectures. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z It might not be perhaps decorous that a registrar of a high court should be the patron of such sports. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Street venders howled their wares in raucous voices that added to the unintelligible clamors of the old highways that were wont to be so dull and quiet and decorous. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Why subject yourself to a city-hall press corps whose cynicism can make its White House counterpart look decorous and fawning? Hey, Chicago, Say Hello to Your Next F#@*ing Mayor 2011-02-17T08:00:00Z The debates in the Senate were generally decorous, even to dullness; the House presented a more lively scene, a good many members being sometimes on their feet at once. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z At a respectful distance and in a fashion more decorous they were followed by the Chief Constable and myself. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z As the day advances, good towns-people in decorous antique garb appear in all directions, making New Year calls. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z I'm afraid," said Elizabeth to Mr. Townshend, as they walked down the quiet suburban road with its decorous villa-residences—"I'm afraid you will find this rather a strenuous day. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z If he treated her with even the most decorous show of affection, he would be taking a dastardly advantage of the situation. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z "This is a very great honor, sir," said old Dan, as he appeared in a suit of decorous black. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z Inwardly I smiled, but outwardly my face was set to decorous lines. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Amid all the rather decorous repartee was a gorilla in the room. Chicago News Cooperative: A Debate Worthy of the Student Council 2011-01-30T04:03:41Z This was not decorous but it had the merit of being true. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Religion, too, if not in its earnest spirituality, yet in its decorous observances and its moral bearings, was maintained and promoted, both by royal precept and example. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z He was the decorous life of the party. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z I don't care particularly for the French, but I am forced to acknowledge that their plays are the noblest, most decorous and normal extant. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z As an inducement to the peasantry to support them in that attempt, they offered to transfer the property in the land from the landlord to the tenant, though with a decorous promise of indemnity. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Meanwhile, in the decorous and respectable biographies, the same old “vital lies” are being told. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z But his little army tiptoed up, their heavy boots creaking as do the boots of decorous mourners at a funeral. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z That was serious enough; but the crowning iniquity was the putting of brandy into the coffee, which it was considered decorous for the young girls to prefer instead of cider. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z Antiquary" states:—"It was always looked upon as decorous for the laity to take off their gloves in church where ecclesiastics alone might wear them. The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z And now let us speak to each other as decorous friends. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z It was not quite "the thing" to belong to the Corps—presumably because anybody could belong to it—and in any case it was not decorous to be enthusiastic about it. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z His eyes still filled with Cydonia's light shrank from that ghastly pageant of lust which decorous London openly allows. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z His manner and air were decorous enough to make them believe it; and after the first few visits of inspection they were satisfied not to make any more. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Gaslight in your hall and lobbies, wax lights, fires, decorous servants, flowers, spirited horses, millinery, soups and wines, are products of nature, and come of themselves. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z With the growth of modern refinement the people of every land have become constantly more decorous in their grief. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary called it “extraordinarily embarrassing,” which might also describe the sentiments beneath the decorous tableau on Wednesday night in the palace of President of . Karzai?s Response to Cables Relieves U.S. 2010-12-09T04:09:00Z That placed the intimacy to her simple mind on a decorous footing. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z But they presented a problem: to pick them up by the bone handle or use the more decorous knife and fork, allowing the diner to include that same cabbage-peppers-onions medley on the sizzling platter beneath? | Franklin Park: Indian Fare, Emphasizing Comfort 2010-12-05T04:20:00Z In a decorous compromise the report concluded that the yuan was “substantially” undervalued but refrained from quantifying the size of the problem. The Big Mac index: An indigestible problem 2010-10-14T11:20:00Z Beans were held back for just the reason you'd think when 33 men are living in a confined space — one more way the decorous rules of the surface are being observed below. How the Chilean Miners Are Surviving Underground 2010-09-26T14:15:00Z With no toilets down below, the men have similarly taken care to use a small adjacent tunnel instead, which keeps things more sanitary — and more decorous too. Trapped Chilean Miners Face a Tough Psychological Ordeal 2010-08-27T08:40:00Z In that moment, more vividly than any other, we have a sense of how far this spirited woman has traveled from a decorous life of letters. Book Review - Dear Money - By Martha McPhee 2010-06-25T17:14:00Z They conduct a decorous courtship in which they parade before their chosen belles. Sexual selection: The hunk and the show-off do not always get the girl 2010-06-03T14:01:00Z The story must be admitted to be a strange one, considering the punctilious character of the Castilian court, and the reserved and decorous habits of Joanna. History of The Reign of Philip The Second King of Spain Volume The Third and Biographical & Critical Miscellanies The past has come down to us cloaked and shrouded, and attended by its decorous retinue of mutes and bearers. A Cursory History of Swearing Born and bred in decorous and God-fearing households, they were not a little shocked by the way in which the great dames of the period dressed and comported themselves. The Great Mogul For the box implies not merely human life, but human life on a certain scale: leisurely, decorous, well-considered. The Jonathan Papers Morson saw it clearly when he came in after luncheon to get the coffee cups, although a complete and decorous silence greeted his entrance. Manslaughter The musicians were already tuning their instruments; figures of waiters—hired of Gunter—trim and decorous, in black trowsers and white waistcoats, passed to and fro the space between the house and the marquee. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 He met her on Sunday, and they had a decorous but wholly satisfying promenade in the park. The Gay Adventure A Romance But his gaiety, subdued and decorous as became a person who ranked high in the trust of a king, was rudely dispelled by the first sight of the wo-begone prisoners. The Great Mogul No decorous superiority here, no mush of devotion. The Jonathan Papers The sense of decorous creeds outraged by his mother's behavior of long ago vanished in the relief that present youth gave with its laughing company and fashionable frocks. Sinister Street, vol. 2 "I never am," said Michael quickly, and a little resentfully as he thought of his very decorous homecomings. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Worshipers of beauty, modesty, good feeling and decorous behavior, rejoice! The Gay Adventure A Romance With this feeling he was ever pious and wise, whether in the fields, or in decorous gaiety among his companions, in his playfulness with his wife, or when holding his children in his arms. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. They approach the church in decorous silence; as they emerge they exchange subdued greetings, walk a block or two in little companies, then scatter to their homes and their Sunday dinners. The Jonathan Papers Now there is a decorous way of combining these two points, as you yourself will be obliged to recognise, although I tell you plainly that I had proposed a different course to your grandmother. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico It is to re-establish in some veiled and decorous form the institution of slavery, by making labor compulsory. The Acquisitive Society He spoke in decorous gravity, and he knew of no reason why an outburst of laughter should sweep the place as he finished. The Tempering But except on certain festive occasions, women were excluded from these meetings, and at the entertainments a very decorous tone always prevailed, to say nothing of the obligatory toast to the fair sex. The Children of the World They were certainly elegantly dressed and most decorous in behavior. Pioneering in Cuba A Narrative of the Settlement of La Gloria, the First American Colony in Cuba, and the Early Experiences of the Pioneers "The goddess is too decorous for that," chided the maid. The Way of the Gods But as she crossed the threshold Peggy’s wild swoop became a decorous stroll, so to speak. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship Moses had always interested him by virtue of his decorous address, which escaped the usual negro pomposity as entirely as his speech escaped the negro dialect. The Tempering There is a decorous naughtiness and a stimulating sense of danger about seeing Aspatria, that must be a thorough enjoyment to Ulfar.” A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story Eventually, for in spite of their boasted independence the decorous example of men will rule them at first. Women as World Builders Studies in Modern Feminism But we are a decorous race, thank God. Last Words To Billy, Boston was the fly-speck, entirely satisfactory as a point of radiation but far too respectable, much too decorous, and altogether too near home to be associated with his idea of a good time. The Bachelors A Novel From Monday through Thursday he mantled himself in judicial dignity and his language was the decorous speech of the bench. The Tempering Their behaviour was severely decorous, in fact a little languid. A Bed of Roses I had meant to take off my hat and smooth my hair, and in a decorous and proper manner approach my mother and deliver my nice little speech, and then hand her the money. Life on the Stage Upon two tall pieces of mahogany, ranged up and down with knobbed drawers and recalling in their decorous solidity the buttoned bodices of mid-Victorian matrons, stood high-handled, white marble urns. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece The slight figure had changed but little from what he remembered; the face still showed traces of its former mischievous vivacity, even though it had become more decorous. The Bachelors A Novel Do not think that you should palter with the truth either because it may not be palatable to me, or seem decorous to yourself. Ayala's Angel "It is our custom," agreed Margaret, "but"—with her prim teacher's air—"your custom is far more decorous." Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play It was opened at once by a servant in very sombre and decorous livery; who, having thrown the door wide, looked at her, then looked at the cab, just wheeling away from the kerb. The Gambler A Novel With this purpose the young Greek assuming his most decorous and sober attire, proceeded to what would now be called the bureau of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs Her conduct in this crisis is not to be weighed in the scale wherein the seemly and decorous observances of female propriety are ordinarily balanced. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency A full quarter of an hour passed over, without anything to break the decorous stillness of the house; when suddenly the door was thrown wide, and the butler announced Sir Harvey Upton and Captain Jennings. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Miss Goucher had already said a decorous but sincerely felt good-by, and had taken her place inside. The Book of Susan A Novel Molyneaux hesitated, studying his well-kept hands; then he looked up with the decorous reserve proper to the occasion. The Gambler A Novel The gentle decorous politeness of the crowd was remarkable. Lafcadio Hearn The Professor would drive up to Jericho in a fly, and knock a decorous rat-tat on the gate. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days The king enjoys conversing with Brinkenstein and, although decorous and dignified demeanor best pleases him, he is not averse to unconstrained cheerfulness. On the Heights A Novel Only the habit of a decorous legal lifetime restrained him. Shadows of Flames A Novel Her replies were always sensible, decorous, ingenious, and acute. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Every one was decorous, and yet with an undercurrent of jollity; for the sermon had stirred their imaginations, and ahead was a good dinner. The Shadow And yet, really, Miss Raseley had behaved herself, had been most quiet and decorous and most affectionate. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary |
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