Sentence examples for deportment lesson from inspiring English sources

There is a scene in Arturo Ui where the Hitler figure Ui takes a deportment lesson from an old actor.

"I didn't ever have deportment lessons.

"You were awfully spoiled," Susan said, "with your ballet lessons and your deportment lessons and your tennis".

Imagine you went to the kind of school where you had deportment lessons and remember everything you might have learned there.

Hoskins tells a story of when he first went into the theatre and they tried to give him elocution and deportment lessons.

First, there was the by now legendary epoch when the young bridegroom came out of the West, announced "All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say 'There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.' " The dowagers of local journalism attempted to give elementary deportment lessons to this child who spake as a god, and to their horror were themselves rebuked.

There is a scene where an old actor gives Ui a lesson in deportment.

Hunched, shabby and despised, Ui is transformed only when he takes lessons in deportment from a ham Shakespearean actor (a wonderfully self-mocking Keith Baxter).

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.

The first Bond movie was directed by Terence Young, who as an upper-middle-class chap gave Sean Connery some lessons in gentlemanly deportment, and as a journeyman director knew that if you drove at 150mph all the time the audience would lose all sense of speed.

Now she's in polite society, but, no matter how hard she tries to remember Higgins's lessons on language and deportment, she can't quite pull them off.