Sentence examples similar to decorous actions from inspiring English sources
The last time there was industrial action here was back in the mid-1980s, in a dispute over pay: a few gnarled veterans seemed to quietly rue the arrival of a more decorous style of action, but they were in a very small minority.
It's one of those questions you ask expecting evasive action, but Handler, after a decorous gulp, answers it.
Within this landscape human activity looks both decorous and ridiculous — a cavalcade of carefully executed pratfalls and reversals.
The structure of his quatrain indicates confident, fluid action: there are few of the pauses which give the first stanza its decorous and cautious tempo, its sense of the women as an empathetic collective.
It also includes Asco, the subversive Chicano collective of the 1970s, whose founding members — Harry Gamboa Jr., Willie Herrón, Gronk and Patssi Valdez — dissented from the more decorous and familiar forms of Chicano art with openly rebellious hit-and-run street performances and other actions.
Each is decorous and accomplished.
Decorous bop piano meets impassioned bop saxophone.
Just a steady dull and decorous burn.
Faculty members tend to embrace a decorous civility.
It sounded a lot more … decorous.
