How To Use Decorum In A Sentence

He spoke of such with soldierlike respect and decorum. The History of Pendennis
He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.” CHASING the WHITE DOG
The hypocrite is a good example for other people, a model of probity and decorum, at least until the truth comes out.
The insult to one of the most senior members of the House, a Vietnam veteran, was a violation of the body's customary decorum as well as its rules, which bar members from directly addressing each other.
General David Petraeus, in a rare public show of indecorum, last week suggested that corruption has been a part of Afghan culture since the country came into existence, which is a sentiment that is not only, from a historical and anthropological perspective, wholly ignorant, but one that exposes intentions on the General's part that seem both dubious as well as misplaced. Michael Hughes: Afghanistan Corrupted by U.S. and 30 Years of Foreign Meddling

By performing the personal in public, talk-show guests transgress the boundaries of behavior and decorum deemed appropriate by middle-class society.
As young ladies we were expected to act/behave with proper decorum.
The real 'breach of decorum' is having a Democrat reaching in my wallet every time I turn around. House resolution over Wilson 'breach of decorum'
On the ship he played bingo, went to the shows, dressed for dinner, and maintained his silent decorum.
All the guests were models of decorum, grace and manners and I didn't know if I would get used to such good behaviour.
the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum
I must say that the chairman handled the job with decorum and taste, and with the dignity required of him.
‘I just went for a pee behind a waste bin with great decorum,’ pleads Ludo.
The entire island was designated a naval base, and villagers were expected to conform to naval standards of hygiene and decorum.
All Hindu women, respecting customs of decorum and demureness, refrain from drinking alcohol in public.
The chain pizzerias like Pizza Hut and Sbarro are few and far-between for such a populated area; it's as though they have the decorum to lay low in one of the world's pizza capitals.
The scene was a triumph of decorum, until Harmon, an enormous cat, entered the room, carrying a dead goldfish.
He's obviously the boofhead and the clown of the family, as his siblings are models of sensitivity and decorum.
The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it. The Man in the Twilight
I just request that we try to treat this proceeding with some dignity and some decorum.
Only the nobility's works of reference retained a certain decorum. Times, Sunday Times
I hope you will behave with decorum at the funeral.
The title was also changed in deference to Victorian decorum: the primmer suburban class was deterred by "ruddy" - considered a cuss word close to the obscenity of "bloody" - so Ruddygore became Ruddigore, under which name it went on to achieve a solidly profitable run of 288 performances. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Only the nobility's works of reference retained a certain decorum. Times, Sunday Times
Their purpose may be better read as a contrast to the guests, both physically in terms of dress and appearance, and socially, in terms of education and decorum.
(world, from an attention to what it calls decorum; and the preferable nature of truth and sincerity) Tj The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale
I thought it more seemly to respect the decorum of the moment even if he did not. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
Traveler decorum dictates that travelers are guests in the hospital.
The grievant was a 'first-line supervisor' who clearly failed to establish 'decorum' and ethical standards of personal behavior with his unit. Cincinnati.Com - All Local News
He said, ‘In golf, customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play.’
The escorts handle all logistic details and also dispense advice on matters of protocol and decorum.
Pure invective, unmitigated by any sophistication, subtlety or decorum.
It's her movie without a doubt and the script is fine-tuned to showcase her comic talents (not to mention her deportment, decorum and the ability to mince around wearing kitten heels and a bikini).
She added: ‘When he stood up to questions in court he held himself with dignity and decorum.’
As a result, modern elegies more often than not break with the decorum of earlier modes of mourning and become melancholic, self-centered, or mocking.
The house is plain, simple, and inconveniently small; but doors and walls are great luxuries, and you cannot imagine how pleasing the ways of a refined European household are after the eternal babblement and indecorum of the Japanese. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Although we might expect him to respond to such success with decorum, he took the opposite tack, highlighting his improprieties and provocations.
Today's social decorum might dictate a dismissal of overtly sexist, cheap popular imagery.
In the presence of elderly visitors our son was a model of decorum.
There is a parallel here with sensation fiction, another literary vogue of the 1860s and 1870s, in which criminality lurks beneath the surface decorums of daily life.
You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
In Delhi, retaining a customer's forgotten belongings is against business decorum.
the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum
They have among themselves a sewing society to make clothes for the poor, which holds meetings, passes resolutions, never comes to fisty-cuffs or bowie-knives as sane assemblies have been known to do elsewhere; and conducts all its proceedings with the greatest decorum. American Notes for General Circulation
He codified a layered system of mosque types, reflecting hierarchies of social status and territorial rank, shaped by notions of identity, memory and decorum.
My Soul maintains a sense of decorum by expressing affection and sympathy for his former wife, not bitterness. Times, Sunday Times
The fabular relations of the poets are so careful of decorum, that they never leave a Hercules destitute of necessaries; but those still spring, as out of some fountain, as well for him as for his companions. Essays and Miscellanies
This rare act of violence in a sport that sets such high store by decorum and good grace would have been shocking enough on its own. Times, Sunday Times
They who compare old accounts with what is now to be seen, will agree that he who looks, at the present day, into the dull, dark and simmering waters, can have no conception of the jollity, frolic, riot, dissipation, and indecorum, which once reigned there.
Leonardo's famous passage on the godlike power of the artist is cited at this point, but this passage has nothing to do with style and decorum.
Joanna did herself proud, showing that Polish youth can carry themselves with dignity and decorum all over the world.
According to the House of Representatives Guide of Decorum, this is a censurable offense. Joe Wilson YouTube: "I Will Not Be Muzzled"
The new King seemed to be carrying out his duties with grace and due decorum.
She delivered it for the behoof of Mr Chick, who was a stout bald gentleman, with a very large face, and his hands continually in his pockets, and who had a tendency in his nature to whistle and hum tunes, which, sensible of the indecorum of such sounds in a house of grief, he was at some pains to repress at present. Dombey and Son
If you cannot stomach a breach of decorum when justified outrage erupts then your support is nearly worthless anyway.
People flowed to their seats with decorum eagerly anticipating the thrill of gourmet cuisine.
If in life, a situation in a place, which I enjoy, is being negatively impacted and disrupting a sense of decorum or well being for me, work at trying to change it to restore a place of contentment. Page 2
Caravaggio painted in Rome most of his life although his work was largely rejected at the time on the grounds of "indecorum," according to many biographers. John M. Eger: Restoration Jobs Available in Florence and Malta
Erial stuck to pure manners and decorum, knowing that any sign of affection to any member of the regiment might drive Dan mad with jealousy or grief.
The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets" is a book about "the impact of that war on the sensibility of the artist"; it also sets out to show that Sassoon et al were not necessarily antiwar but antiheroism, as in the mocking title of one of Wilfred Owen's most famous poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est. Versed in the Horror of War
In the past few weeks, Emily Dickinson has been asked to don her Sunday bests, the vestments of public decorum.
Boswell proved, too, surprisingly sure of himself in matters of taste and artistic decorum.
Was it Mondale who made finger pointing by politicians unclassy, bad manners or lacking in decorum? The “Don’t mess with old people” (Milwaukee Edition) Friday memorial open thread. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Vice thrived in its most sordid and elegant forms, from squalid opium dens and off-the-street brothels to the decorum and plush luxuriance of the so-called French restaurants. Frank Norris
Fathers, Helen decided, whose death grip on decorum had been proof against all daughterly pressure to draft them for maypole duty. DEATH OF A NYMPH
Asked to comment on his prospects for a first full cap, Hughes is coy - it clearly goes against his inherent sense of modesty and decorum.
The complaint seems to be that the majority of the people leaving comments are negative creeps, violent sociopaths or people with no sense of decorum, politeness or appropriateness.
All that your hosts ask is that you observe some simple decorum and take a clean plate each time.
He was a regular observer of religious rites, took great pains to secure decorum in the services of the church, and was generous in almsgiving both within his empire and without.
The fact that Warner Bros. moved "Training Day's" release date from Sept. 21 to Oct. 5 was as much a consequence of postattack decorum than advertising: the studio felt it could not adequately promote the film while TV stations, magazines and newspapers offered saturation terrorism coverage. 'Day' Of Reckoning
At fourteen, Patrick had an expansive personality, one built to collide with rectory decorum.
Although many of his close associates were censored for indecorum in their religious writings, Titian's paintings were never so criticized, but rather lauded and imitated.
The idea of decorum had its strongest hold on the traditions of portraiture of nobles and worthies.
In the presence of elderly visitors our son was a model of decorum.
But faith in the classical virtues of decorum and modesty remained with him until his death.
I prefer my men with a sense of good taste and decorum that you have yet to demonstrate.
One expects people in the public eye to conduct their personal lives with a certain decorum.
But you have to understand that Congress is a place where a certain decorum is expected. The Rove Presidency
When it came to April Fools', he dynamited decorum and put moderation to the torch. The Beginning
We want all persons in Bahamian public life to act with probity, decorum, honesty and forthrightness.
It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis. The Scarlet Letter
Ghosts deals with the moral rot concealed behind a veneer of decorum. Times, Sunday Times
Not to mention decorum and dignity. The Sun
It was a constant practice with them, in their midnight consistories, to swallow such plentiful draughts of inspiration, that their mysteries commonly ended like those of the Bacchanalian orgia; and they were seldom capable of maintaining that solemnity of decorum which, by the nature of their functions, most of them were obliged to profess. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
In a place where manners and decorum are at the absolute bottom of the priority heap, all that is really required of you is to avert disaster. The Times Literary Supplement
And as your husband, I will expect respect, decorum, and properness a woman is supposed to display.
Referees spited him for his nonstop lip-flapping and lack of decorum.
Because Elizabeth has so recently been made aware by Darcy of the effects of her sister's indecorum, she argues strongly that the family should not allow another breach of decorum that could harm the girls' chances of finding a suitable husband.
As young ladies we were expected to act/behave with proper decorum.
Indeed, the decorum and etiquette long associated with the game at all levels seem to be losing ground all too quickly.
But it was the women of the congregation who largely drew up the rules of propriety, decorum and morality, and exercised control or influence over the behaviour of their children.
The homework is originally the format right, record of writing decorum.
Some two thousand years later, in addition to guidelines on decorum, the Bible set specific protocol for preparing and consuming food.
I thought it more seemly to respect the decorum of the moment even if he did not. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
Who, within his inner consciousness, does not feel that same ferine, savage man struggling against the stern, adamantine bonds of morality and decorum? Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main
You don't have to follow the rules of social decorum or the niceties of society because you are privileged.
Unlike most news anchors, who are known for button-down decorum and a calming presence, he has been a persistently outspoken, dramatic and frequently polarizing figure.
This is that indecorum, which is explained so much at large by Cicero in his Offices. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
Judicial decorum prevented his commenting, That's what I thought you said, bozo. THE VENDETTA DEFENCE
They need to have decorum and dignity. The Sun
He carries his character's vicious decorum with grace. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not saying we should all grow whiskers, but there is such a thing as growing old with decorum. Times, Sunday Times
An act of public indecorum is also a breach of the peace.
I'm all for hanging Bush by his toenails (figuratively of course) but for a member of Congress to explicitly elide the honorific is a breach of decorum. Report: Obama Picks Labor Secretary
Emboldened by a nationwide crackdown on crime and a government decree giving them extra law-and-order powers, Italian mayors have issued a string of often bizarre by-laws to enhance "public decorum.
Traveler decorum dictates that travelers are guests in the hospital.
And that reminds me that the decorum of sea-bathing in the 'fifties was promoted by the apparatus known as the awning, attached to bathing machines. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
Lowe takes up issues of deportment: the students at both Spelman and Cornell carefully controlled their body movements to display modesty and decorum.
Is not the cant sometimes on the side of those who are so anxious for what they call decorum? Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet
Although I deal with people at all levels, I maintain a level head and a certain level of decorum even when I am very friendly with colleagues.
Somehow the sudden lapses of respected people, odd indecorums, backbitings, bigamies, embezzlements, and attempted chastities -- the surprising leaps they make now and then out of propriety into the police-courts -- somehow news-items of this kind do not altogether -- how shall I put it? More Trivia
So for any woman to engage this dynamic is to go against social decorums and stereotypes in such a way that she may find herself beyond the pale.
The black-eyed and pretty Provencale courtesied with due decorum, and glanced at the handsome young Englishman with an eye of approbation; but, whether afraid of his character as a philosopher, or his doubtful rank, added the saving clause, — “If my mother approves.” Anne of Geierstein
While ghosting may be more and more socially permissible, she believes a long-term relationship requires certain standards of decorum.
They committed themselves to elaborate codes of behavior that included respect for women and a certain mannerly decorum.
Those "sitting on their hands in stony silence" were the minority who, while they may not have agreed with the party in power, were grownups with the decorum and decency to respect the office of the president. Town hall anger echoed in Congress
Some of their advice concerns technical decorum, such as deciding whether or not to copy someone else in on a discussion.
Charles's household ordinances were intended to re-introduce order and decorum into court life by re-establishing the etiquette of Henry VIII's time.
When credit and responsibility are at issue, gatekeepers try and fall back upon supposedly stable older personas of the ‘author’ to restore some decorum.
When one loses an election, the proper decorum is to concede and help the winning candidate. Clinton Stumps for Obama in Nevada - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
I abandoned decorum and danced like a loon. Times, Sunday Times
As regarded indecorum of dress, the examiners had insisted on deletion when a dress appeared indecent or suggestive. Times, Sunday Times
Thus, with the help of decorum as a bridge, architecture could be considered as a language, or at least as a subject that would lend itself to a humanist treatment based on rhetoric and poetics.
She also makes it clear why it was doomed, defying as it does every respectable idea about godly behaviour, sexual decorum, female carnality and nature itself.
Principles typically associated with classicism include order, proportion, balance, harmony, decorum, avoidance of excess.
Your host would blush to point out to you the indecorum of your conduct; and the laws of hospitality oblige him to supply the every want of a guest, even though he be a detenu. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Maybe a long association with the poor is to blame, possibly its familiarity as a playground euphemism or just the fact that it is impossible to eat one with any degree of decorum (its less familiar name "periwinkle" comes from the old English for "winding mussel"). Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk
High costs of barbering and laundering made middle-class decorum impractical, but, even if a clean-shaven, white-shirted appearance were possible, everyone preferred tattered clothing, adorned with a revolver and bowie knife.
Analects passages such as these made Confucius the model of courtliness and personal decorum for countless generations of Chinese officials.
Parents gave their children privacy to court alone, often removing themselves from the parlor, trusting that decorum would prevent improper behavior.
Do I think I could contain myself and restrain myself with the proper amount of professional decorum?
Each had enough decorum to suspend further hostilities.
It will make a Persian rug market look like a model of decorum and straight dealing.
No matter how vigorous the steps, the old-style ballerinas radiated a glittering authority, decorum, and elegance.
A scandal is a serious indecorum which is used generally in reference to the clergy. A Philosophical Dictionary
There was a certain lack of decorum and taste at the Daily Record last week.
Also, please do ignore these boorish Yanks who go about their business with flagrant disregard for military decorum and totally without charm.
‘They are patterns of behaviour or patterns of decorum that we all have,’ says MacArthur.
I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
In this, the volume is representative of current scholarship generally - and with some reason: the earlier decades are certainly less overtly sexy than the later, and more shrouded by those fabled Victorian decorums.
Finally decorum and restraint are swept aside, and the voice explodes, white with anger.
You owe him civil behavior, consideration, and decorum, not a vow of chastity.
Over the years, I've had to accept our continental cousins' lack of decorum when it comes to beachwear, but time was when the inhibited British could be relied on to know what is decent.
Do I think I could contain myself and restrain myself with the proper amount of professional decorum?
To all those who have suddenly taken an interest in political decorum and resect or the officeof the President of the United States: Wilson says no more apologies for outburst against president
Of course, if you conduct yourself with impeccable taste and decorum, you will soon bore the reporters, and they will stop covering you.
In opposition, you are allowed to be a bareknuckle fighter, but once in power a certain decorum is required. Times, Sunday Times
Of these, the most striking is Matthew G. Lewis, whose novel The Monk cast aside Radcliffe's decorum in its sensational depictions of diabolism and incestuous rape.
She thought, Where is the decorum and dignity befitting a king? Christianity Today
Being one who still remembers Detroit walking off after losing and being poor sportsmen, and recognizing that they were different players then, I've never forgotten that act of indecorum.
In all these, the common denominator is the willingness, eagerness, or desperation to eschew all pretense of privacy, discretion, decorum, and personal space to expose mind, body and soul in any and all ways possible the sleazier, more embarrassing or self-immolating, the better! Lorraine Devon Wilke: You're Not Keeping Up With The Kardashians Either
To be clear, I'm not opposed to modesty in film if decorum calls for it.
But faith in the classical virtues of decorum and modesty remained with him until his death.
Eighteenth-century novelists, such as William Goodall in his Adventures of Captain Greenland, frequently invoked Shakespeare as a precursor because he was felt to break literary decorums in much the same way as did the new form.
Cook has ordered replacement pots from London, as these are not up to her standard, and Ruby has piddled on every tree in our garden—something Hart feels I should not allow: even his dog must show decorum. Exit the Actress
In the presence of elderly visitors our son was a model of decorum.
I hope you will behave with decorum at the funeral.
All of this points to a new interest in solemnity, decorum, and beauty in Catholic liturgy. Lauda Sion: Catholic Liturgy in a Time of Reform
The ladies were in the middle doing their social best to preserve decorum.
I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
As a ballad and a subversive "masque," however, it is a scandal to literary form and decorum in its analysis of oppression and its attribution of Promethean virtue to the hungry, the homeless, and the despised. Shelley, Adorno, and the Scandal of Commited Art
Tears also flowed because football had lost a dignified man in a realm not given to decorum. Times, Sunday Times
Though it is somewhat difficult to retain decorum about this issue, I must tell you that if anyone had walked into our Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and told us that someday, in this great nation we were founding, citizens would be put in jail for possessing this great herb, we would have laughed them out of the room. Harvey Wasserman: George Washington Orders All Californians to Legalize Pot
Tears also flowed because football had lost a dignified man in a realm not given to decorum. Times, Sunday Times
Although she is clothed modestly and moves with decorum, her song is about her happy anticipation of her wedding night.
But if such was her mischievous purpose she was completely disappointed; for Roland Graeme, internally piquing himself on his self-command, neither laughed nor was discomposed; and all that the maiden gained by her frolic was a severe rebuke from her companion, taxing her with mal-address and indecorum. The Abbot
Unbecoming as they are in a young unmarried female, a much stricter sense of decorum, a vastly different repose and reserve of manner, are absolutely essential in a wife; and it is as a _wife_, Kate, that I am now addressing you. Kate Coventry An Autobiography
The same can go for adult band members whose ebullience of spirit, exhaustion, or carelessness result in loosened ties, crooked hats, lost instruments, or other egregious failures of decorum.
By comparison, Cody's day job is a bastion of reserve and decorum.
Principles associated with classicism include order, proportion, balance, harmony, decorum, and avoidance of excess.
Tears also flowed because football had lost a dignified man in a realm not given to decorum. Times, Sunday Times
Levis hid behind the conventions and decorum of poetry to disarm his readers and plunder their hearts.
On the trek across the Sahara it was vital that decorum, etiquette and social graces were left at the airport!
Indecorum animatis ut calceis uti aut vitris, quae ubi fracta abjicimus, nam ut de meipso dicam, nec bovem senem vendideram, nedum hominem natu grandem laboris socium. Anatomy of Melancholy
He showed no respect for party decorum, challenging a sitting Republican president who he felt was too moderate.
The necessity of it to my defence against a more heinous charge could alone have extorted from me so painful an indecorum. Chris Weigant: America's First Political Sex Scandal: The Reynolds/Hamilton Affair
In a stress of frequentation he appeared in evening dress in the dining-room at night, and did honor to the place; but otherwise he was to be seen only in our corridor, or in the cold, dark chamber at the stair head where the camareras sat sewing, kept in check by his decorum. Familiar Spanish Travels
Was it Mondale who made finger pointing by politicians unclassy, bad manners or lacking in decorum? The “Don’t mess with old people” (Milwaukee Edition) Friday memorial open thread. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
It wasn't helpful either, evidently, that when she was alone in the police station before any charges had been filed, waiting for her boyfriend's questioning to end, officials saw her doing tension-releasing cartwheels and splits that violated their sense of decorum, and fed into the image of her as a callous playgirl that prosecutors would soon go on to build. A Prosecution in Perugia
But on the other hand, it is a pity that her introduction of the role of rhetoric and poetics is so much dependent on decorum, because it results in a rather limited view of their role.
Such moments set the tenor for the place, where a sense of old-fashioned decorum co-exists with informality.
I deal with thepanese almost every week and Obama just embarrassed us yet again in front of a country where such lack of decorum is taken very seriously. President Obama's Controversial Greeting with the Emperor of Japan
All that your hosts ask is that you observe some simple decorum and take a clean plate each time.
Ghosts deals with the moral rot concealed behind a veneer of decorum. Times, Sunday Times
To apply the term figuratively to the forces inherent in national character savoured of a literary indecorum. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Throughout Hazlitt's consideration of the politics of periodical criticism, metaphors of taste operate both gastronomically and in terms of a decorum that is both literary and political -- a crossing which can be read most succinctly in the anagrammatic construction of "taste" as "state. Periodical Indigestion
Cultural repression facilitated by decorum lies at the root of the humanistic classicism informing the Renaissance sketchbooks.
We had to behave properly and with decorum. Times, Sunday Times
As young ladies we were expected to act/behave with proper decorum.
Our waitress, who came running after the hotel's front desk clerk saw us wandering around the dining room, was kind enough to observe the proper decorum for two people in our situation.

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