Sentence examples for decorum from from inspiring English sources

If you love the mountains but like a sense of decorum from another era, this is for you.

Particularly jarring is a passage from "Funeral Toast," in which Mallarmé celebrates his Parnassian predecessor Théophile Gautier: Magnificent, plenary, this Nothing sucks decorum from the breasts of men.

From about the first third of the 16th century, the emphasis on decorum was so strong in Italy and spread so fast northward and westward, reinforced by a still more solemn decorum from Spain, that it produced a reaction.

Veronese teenagers in the time of Shakespeare may well have behaved with a different decorum from today's Americans, but that doesn't mean they weren't equally in the thrall of newly rampaging hormones.

Still, we will hope for a little more decorum from cloneoaf as they celebrate becoming the only person to call every game correctly in our Pick Six contest last week.

Scruton advocates a public art form on an urban scale, in the manner of treatises on urban decorum from the Renaissance onwards, which subordinate the style of the individual building to the whole.

Restraint and decorum disappeared from this capital of 1.5 million people.

Ron Paul's campaign spokesmen are quick to distance themselves from any hint of the Paul movement being an angry, raucous anti-establishment rabble — the words "respect" and "decorum" flow from their lips as much as "limited government" and "end the Fed now".

David's history paintings of the "Oath of the Horatii" (1784; Louvre, Paris [see photograph]) and "Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons" (1789; Louvre) display a gravity and decorum deriving from classical tragedy, a certain rhetorical quality of gesture, and patterns of drapery influenced by ancient sculpture.

The humor that erupts from her comes in her sudden breaks from decorum, as in her wild, jubilant cries at the end of "Gorgeous" (from "The Apple Tree").

"I've tried to maintain decorum and distance from Andy," she said.