Sentence examples for code of decorum from inspiring English sources
At sanctioned tournaments, competitors adhere to a strict code of decorum or risk forfeiting points.
Now, political correctness, or at least an unwritten code of decorum, requires that everyone be invited to every celebration.
The last time the word got this much publicity was more than a half-century ago, in television's infancy, when the actress and interviewer Faye Emerson unabashedly — and to many viewers, shockingly — broke the buttoned-up dress code of decorum then prevalent.
Neither cloistered in a convent nor as liberated from prevailing codes of decorum as a courtesan might be, Pozzo was a respectable, married mother who produced literature in genres that were commonly considered "masculine"—the chivalric romance and the literary dialogue.
"It's deliberately stupid humor, savaging of middle-class and professional codes of decorum, its raunchiness and sluttiness all scream white trash".
She would not be cowed by the pomp of the setting — the velvet draperies, the spittoons — nor would she be inhibited by the Court's finicky codes of seniority and decorum.
THE idea of telling moving stories of family life, love and relationships through characters who, for the most part, are not allowed to touch one another and have strict codes of dress and decorum might seem self-defeating.
The group of World War II veterans kept a military code and the decorum of their generation, telling virtually no one of their top-secret work interrogating Nazi prisoners of war at Fort Hunt.
It's always a breach of decorum to give away the ending of a movie, but "Time Code" could be spoiled by a careless disclosure of the beginning.
