How To Use Courtliness In A Sentence
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GOP leaders seem cut from the same gentlemanly mold from another age of courtliness: Bennett, McConnell, Hatch, Lugar, Grassley.
The April Rasmussen Trust numbers. | RedState
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He received them with an easy courtliness, which is more noticeable in the old world than in the new.
A Splendid Hazard
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With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome.
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She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour.
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And courtliness certainly involved making a good impression on one's audience, as courtesy still does today.
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Such conjugal uncourtliness elicits its merited censure in the cool satire of the accompanying motto: --
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
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The occasional courtliness of his manner has produced many forgettable poems, but he has no nostalgia for or tolerance of the disastrous grand narratives of the masters of Modernism.
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Our sex perhaps must expect to bear a little -- uncourtliness shall I call it?
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
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Your honor," said he, "must pardon the uncourtliness of our ways; but we give you the best we have: and the worthy Lord Loch-awe cannot do more.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Bear with his uncourtliness now, for he is truthful, upright, and noble in soul — qualities rare in a Hellene.
A Victor of Salamis
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The Italian greets me with great courtliness: first relieving me of my burdens, then bowing gracefully, his lips remaining just a hair's breadth above my extended hand.
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Within this improbable framework, the poet has incorporated a discussion of courtliness and love which is not without sophistication.
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Such ferocious good cheer and courtliness prevails that you may find yourself expecting someone to click his heels.
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Which being the case, no wonder if error, oiled with obsequiousness, (which generally gains friends, though deserves none worth having,) has often the advantage of truth, and thereby slides more easily and intimately into the fool's bosom, than the uncourtliness of truth will suffer it to do.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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Analects passages such as these made Confucius the model of courtliness and personal decorum for countless generations of Chinese officials.
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Tall, well proportioned, and always well dressed, he carried himself in polite society with dignity and courtliness.
A Country of Vast Designs
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I bet it also gave him an air of courtliness that helped him get people to talk - the kind he wanted to hear.
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Elizabethan and Jacobian periods is particularly full; and this is as it should be; for at no time was our language more equally removed from conventionalism and commonplace, or so fitted to refine strength of passion with recondite thought and airy courtliness of phrase.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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The Italian greets me with great courtliness: first relieving me of my burdens, then bowing gracefully, his lips remaining just a hair's breadth above my extended hand.
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Our sex perhaps must expect to bear a little — uncourtliness shall I call it? — from the husband whom as the lover they let know the preference their hearts gave him to all other men. —
Clarissa Harlowe
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A lifelong civil servant who wraps his sangfroid and political toughness in French courtliness, Mr. Trichet generally gets high marks for the way he has managed the central bank.
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He boasted of having carried the colours of the 20th regiment, that bore the brunt of the day there, and mainly contributed to obtain a "glorious victory," as Southey, in his days of uncourtliness, called that of Blenheim.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
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To steer things closer to the topic, showing up at the Consulate reminded me of something that, in the frustration of voice mail and websites, I had forgotten: I am dealing with a culture where courtliness is still considered a virtue, and kindness to strangers is routine.
Any experience with San Francisco consulate?
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His diligence and his attention - his courtliness too - all seem out of another era.
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There's costumes and courtliness, but this 16th-century saga remains unstuffy.
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At this point, in a climax of courtliness, one or another of them may mumble, "What?
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Your honor," said he, "must pardon the uncourtliness of our ways: but we give you the best we have; and the worthy Lord Loch-awe cannot do more.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Clay greeted her with his famous florid courtliness, then turned his attention back to the president.
A Country of Vast Designs
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A lifelong civil servant who wraps his sang froid and political toughness in French courtliness, Mr. Trichet generally gets high marks for the way he has managed the E.C.B. He may be the most influential public official on the Continent, the person who most embodies the dream of a single coin for the European realm.
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I will," said Sir Richard; "and don't take old Chandos's uncourtliness too much to heart, young Eustace.
The Lances of Lynwood
