The latter's stiff courtliness and regal but nefarious ways provide the perfect foil to Flynn's easy charm.
In the hall, he surprised me by taking my arm, not out of courtliness but because he needed somebody to lean on.
He was legendary for the democratic courtliness he displayed toward his hundreds of employees: he spent months choosing the right Christmas gift for each one of them, and he always stepped aside with a small bow to allow the lowliest apprentice to enter the elevator before him.
With his beguiling chivalry, Harry inspires Gideon and Suzie's nostalgia for the sure-footed courtliness that has all but disappeared from their fragmented, contemporary lives, then proceeds to unleash forces of discord that bring family antagonisms to a flash point.
There's a kind of punctilious courtliness to Rees's instructional writing that seems both wildly counterintuitive and naggingly familiar (when I interviewed Rees, he mentioned that he's an avid collector of early-to-mid-twentieth-century industrial manuals, and that the tone he cultivates here is partly a result of that obsession).
Sexy, loud, grinding, and aggressive, these works adamantly reject everything we associate with academic dance: symmetry, courtliness, poise.
The next day, Struth, his courtliness restored, and I walked around Dresden and talked about his project of taking photographs at industrial and scientific workplaces.
The emperor penguins got their name because they bow with great courtliness and act imperial in general.
Fowler is six feet tall, fifty-seven years old, with curly reddish hair, glasses, and a Southern accent and courtliness that derive from his upbringing, in Memphis, Tennessee.
"Ten Days in the Hills," unable to subdue its modern matter to a late-medieval courtliness and formality, strives for, and to an impressive extent achieves, a kindred richness.
Well, it could have something to do with the formality of ballet as seen by a modern-dance man, or the courtliness of Couperin as seen by Richard Strauss, or the tinkliness of a harpsichord compared with an orchestra.
