The phrase "deportment in" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to one's behavior or conduct in a particular situation or setting. Example: Maria's deportment in the workplace was always professional and poised, earning her the respect of her colleagues.
The authors differ sharply on Hogan's deportment in defeat.
Who, for instance, is going to define deportment in an Irishman?
It has also created a female morality police, a shadowy group called the al-Khansa' Brigades, who insure proper deportment in ISIS-held towns.
There is a tremendous display of deportment in this head, and the way it is being carried along – very slow-movingly, dromedary-like, we imagine – on this neck, with such care.
A fair number, to be sure, are mundane pointers on deportment: "In the Presence of Others Sing not to yourself with a humming Noise, nor Drum with your Fingers or Feet".
And indeed, a citizenry's urge to break away and form a community based on clear ideas of who the citizens are, what they need and what they're up against is very much the model for correct deportment in Yates's view.
In front of the house young women – one is called Rowan, another Larch – are drilled in deportment: straitjacketed in stiff white collars.
Daniel Taggart Fiske, the school's principal at the time, would later recall that Dickinson was "very bright" and "an excellent scholar, of exemplary deportment, faithful in all school duties".
He dived into the deep to get that ring for you, holding his nose in the water, all to get that ring for you!" The Tsar Maiden replies, "I don't care — I don't love him!") The Mariinsky dancers, usually so elegantly formal in their deportment and sophisticated in stage manners, are wonderfully free with their torsos here and engagingly naïve in their behavior.
There was, too, the extraordinary contrast in the deportment of the magistrates in their rulings in the two cases, and what that said about the different South Africas of then and now.
The great scene in which Arturo is given lessons in deportment and rhetoric by a ham Shakespearean actor also never fails: here Joseph Mydell is superb as the battered old thesp and there is a chilling moment when Msamati's halting blank verse delivery acquires full-throttled power.
