courtly

How To Use courtly In A Sentence

• They range from reserved and courtly to warm and expressive.
• While pictures often portray the man sneering down his nose at the camera, in person he is strikingly soft-spoken, almost courtly.
• He apparently made a charming studio companion with his courtly manners and elegant conversation. Times, Sunday Times
• Such were the rimes of _Skelton_ (vsurping the name of a Poet Laureat) being in deede but a rude rayling rimer & all his doings ridiculous, he vsed both short distaunces and short measures pleasing onely the popular eare: in our courtly maker we banish them vtterly. The Arte of English Poesie
• It deals with two women who reject their suitors because they've decided they want to marry men who are more fashionable, affected and accustomed to courtly manners.
• Now passing from these courtly trifles, let vs talke of our scholastical toyes, that is of the Grammaticall versifying of the Greeks and Latines and see whether it might be reduced into our English arte or no. The Arte of English Poesie
• They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
• Mechthild's use of metaphors drawn from courtly life led earlier commentators to speculate that she might have come from noble stock. RIDDLE ME THIS
• Gawain is visited by the lord's wife again; they exchange courtly words again all morning, Gawain parries her ever more forward advances.
• In the week a new, bold young Masters champion has been anointed I am reminded of a piece I never tire of quoting by Alistair Cooke in these very pages half a century ago, about another Bobby, another courtly nonpareil, Bobby Jones, who inspired the very foundation of the Masters at Augusta in 1934. My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating