Sentence examples for decorum between from inspiring English sources

Such a public breach of collegial decorum between professors is all but unthinkable at Yale, where faculty communication is often conducted with arched eyebrows and significant silences.

Never more important than the effort he's reviewing, no matter how poor the result, he maintains a balance of decorum between someone who spends two hours in front of it (and sometimes I'm sure it felt like the longest two hours of his life) and those who have spent years creating it, negotiating all the horrors and wonders of making a film.

Of course, every interaction is slightly distinct, illuminating the subtle differences in decorum between people of different backgrounds, social rankings and personalities.

In the past, Gingrich did the same to the congressional ethics process, C-SPAN and the sense of decorum between the political parties in the name of winning a Republican majority in the House.

The people in "Elective Affinities" are men and women of their fruitful, confusing time, oddly poised between decorum and liberation, between reason and feeling: they're amateur scientists who have the misfortune to believe that a formula for happiness is within their reach.

Jazz taste oscillates between decorum and expression, usually favoring the latter.

The chorus alternated between passive decorum and unruly commentary.

And yet what's disorienting about all the peekaboo, said Ms. Mears, is "a blurring of lines," of decorum and the demarcation between public and private space, lines crossed long ago in places like Southern California, where sweat pants are more common than suits and no one thinks twice about wearing a bikini to go to the mall.

At the Oscars, Carey Mulligan courted the lens in a Prada gown that walked the line between daring and decorum.

The verdict on the man is trickier, because the critical decorum that observes a boundary between the work and the person who wrote it doesn't apply in Mailer's case.

There are still places on the Upper East Side where the neighborhood's dual virtues of tranquillity and decorum are evident, but 94th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is not one of them.