Here's the point -- I think the middle-brow decorousness of Times editors gets in the way of cultural truths. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Braudy: Elvis's Army Fatigues Survive the Malibu Wildfires] Reference
The Democratic leadership and the liberal intelligentsia seemed pathetic and exhausted, wedded to musty ideals of bipartisanship and decorousness. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Rosen: Printing Press Progressives at Mother Jones Try to Debunk the Political Web] Reference
But I think decorousness plays at least a small role in the usefulness of blog reviews, particularly when it comes to using quotes that go on the front and back covers of books. From Wordnik.com. [Blog reviews] Reference
I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover. From Wordnik.com. [John McQuaid: A Fist-Bump for the New Yorker] Reference
In a room filled with automatons, they were able to push people into some form of recognition, even if it was only the foggy first moments of intuiting that the rules of weak-minded decorousness had been transgressed. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Funny Guy] Reference
Maslin on Audition by Barbara Walters: If any single thing keeps 'Audition' from achieving the stature of Katharine Graham's 'Personal History,' the book that set the high-water mark for memoirs of the politically and socially well-connected, it is the excess decorousness built into. From Wordnik.com. [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference
For one, the Supreme Court is a place of exceeding decorousness. From Wordnik.com. [ Politics] Reference
But the story was true, or believed to be so, and truth trumped decorousness. From Wordnik.com. [London Review of Books] Reference
One learned, one merely obscene; one a pattern of decorousness, the other a self-polluter. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women] Reference
That decorousness, that brightness, melted off what lay behind, as frosty dew melts off grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Flower] Reference
But in many of the better class houses merriment and gayety went on while the outside decorousness was observed. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Detroit] Reference
Which do you think should pay greatest attention to the decorousness of his appearance in the delivery of a speech?. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
He felt, as you and I cannot help feeling, that there is a classic decorousness, an inherent propriety, an aesthetic grace. From Wordnik.com. [An Address in Commemoration of the Re-Establishment of the National Flag at Fort Sumter.] Reference
Still, both only tear up once or twice, perhaps out of decorousness or perhaps from having told their tales many times before. From Wordnik.com. Reference
In the government of the exterior of a man modesty aims to make it conform to the demands of decency and decorousness (honestas). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Irish; a normal investiture in honourable rags; and decorousness of tattering, as of a banner borne in splendid ruin through storms of war. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
In jazzier compositions you longed for an improviser's spontaneity and development rather than a decorousness better suited to a fern-throttled piano bar. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
It was like dragging a hideous shape of death into the cleanly and cheerful space before a household fire, where it would present all the uglier aspect, amid the decorousness of everything about it. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
She might have been grateful, but the reflection that she had made a step to unlock the antechamber of her dearest deepest matters to an ordinary military officer, whose notions of women were probably those of his professional brethren, impelled her to transfer his polished decorousness to the burden of his masculine antagonism-plainly visible. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
Mohammedan women are merely overgrown children, and the promise of strict decorousness is forgotten or ignored the moment the tomasha begins; and the fun and the wickedness of removing their yashmaks in the presence of a Ferenghi is too rare an opportunity to be missed, and, no doubt, furnishes them with material for amusing conversation for many a day after. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
A certain decorousness of illustration and perspicuity of feature which it would not otherwise possess. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
In such a setting, Pittman's ripely flamboyant paintings blush and heave and revel in the decorousness and messiness of life, more freely than they commonly have in simple white-cube settings; meanwhile their bounty of bulbous forms, truncated extremities, amputated limbs, and cups that runneth over resonate with Lord's urns, platters and ewers, which are both robust and fragile (a break in one is salved with glue and decorated with gold in the way of the Japanese tradition of the honored flaw). From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
One after another they glide in, with an always conscious air, swagger off to the bar, strike attitudes in groups, one with his legs spread, another with a foot behind on tiptoe, another leaning against the counter, and so pose, and drink "My respects" -- all rather solemn and stiff, impressed perhaps by the decorousness of the place, and conscious of their good clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Why am I not born like a Gentileman and why am I now so speak-able about my own eatables (Feigenbaumblatt and Father, Juda — pest, 5688, A.M.) whole-heartedly takes off his gabbercoat and wig, honest draughty fellow, in his public interest, to make us see how though, as he says: ‘by Allswill’ the inception and the descent and the endswell of Man is temporarily wrapped in ob-scenity, looking through at these accidents with the faroscope of television, (this nightlife instrument needs still some subtrac-tional betterment in the readjustment of the more refrangible angles to the squeals of his hypothesis on the outer tin sides), I can easily believe heartily in my own most spacious immensity as my ownhouse and microbemost cosm when I am reassured by ratio that the cube of my volumes is to the surfaces of their sub-jects as the sphericity of these globes (I am very pressing for a parliamentary motion this term which, under my guidance, would establish the deleteriousness of decorousness in. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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