But instances of truly excessive decorousness or decoration are rare in "Beyond Silence," and a pervasive but slight stiltedness is generally redeemed by the sharpness of Hoffman's observations: And skies athrob with gaud and roar of firework, Gigantic needles jabbing high Swiftly trailing flame like thread, then piercing The beady button of the moon...
America, despite being a young country defined by its extraordinary openness and freedom, is more bound than Britain by the strictures of politeness, sensitivity and good manners.And it is the nihilism of the British way, not the decorousness of the American way, that is the outlier internationally.
As a group, we're hesitant to speak up for ourselves, lest our decorousness be tainted by saying something too self-aggrandizing.
And this fixed understanding imposes a kind of decorousness on the camerawork.
On the recording each party did its best not to let its decorousness get in the way.
Drawing on a Jacobean hymn, the calm, regular prelude sets the stage for an opera of rich harmonies and sweeping climaxes, but also of an essential cool decorousness that proudly ignores Wagnerian orchestral innovations and that may have been a reason for the turn in its repertory fortunes.
In jazzier compositions you longed for an improviser's spontaneity and development rather than a decorousness better suited to a fern-throttled piano bar.
Its dramatic skill lies in its rapid and economical garden-party alternation of social decorousness and private revelation, and in the amazing, modernist restraint with which it sets those changes to the various colors of its score, Chausson's "Poème" for violin and orchestra.
I respect the argument that they're making, and I think it's one that Breitbart himself would have agreed with — not with the substance of their criticisms, of course, but with their point about not getting hung up on a phony decorousness when important arguments and issues are at stake.
The brilliance of this version lies in the tension between the decorousness of the occasion and the dire nature of the revelations; and the horror is even more acute because of the heightened absurdity.
In fact, his style, combining decorousness with great intelligence, is admirably suited to Franz Lehár's wonderful operetta.
