In the very next sentence you can almost hear him breathe a sigh of relief as he chivalrously rushes to rescue her from the brink of smart-woman purgatory: "These qualities were softened, however, by her equally evident and appealing femininity".
Afterward, he (it is our hero, Luke) chivalrously apologizes for being too quick.
If only every host was as chivalrously minded.
— if you've chivalrously taken the non-view side of the table, or at the Empire State Building if you haven't.
But last month Mr. Latchford, who lives here in an apartment brimming with Asian artifacts, was depicted less chivalrously in a civil complaint filed by the United States attorney's office in Manhattan.
"By the way," he says, less than chivalrously, "it was Mariah who asked me to marry her".
By chivalrously protecting them while citing their every virtue and his every flaw (making too much of his extremely minor sins, to promote the dubious possibility that he has been a bad brother), Colt is being loyal to his siblings, if not his readers.
He is chivalrously loyal to Sylvia, a spoiled beauty who scorns her husband's stuffy rectitude, even as she is piqued by it.
Melo, who is 6 foot 8 and 192 pounds, said chivalrously that he would not smash the ball into the woman on the other side.
He's a victim of bullying, and he chivalrously tries to get a girl out of detention.
When it ends, the women incline (one leg raised in penchée arabesque) to greet their partners, who chivalrously support them on bended knee (the classic demonstration of courtly love in the medieval era, in which the original "Raymonda" is set).
