Sentence examples for deportment which is from inspiring English sources
They're funny because he has so thoroughly worked out the deportment, which is what makes them real.
Much was made of that deportment, which was used to characterize him as a cold-blooded killer and, alternatively, as a scared boy whose actions had unwittingly pushed him into an adult world.
Candidates were also judged on their skills of deportment, appearance, speech, and level of skill in calligraphy, all of which were subjective criteria that allowed the already wealthy members of society to be chosen over ones of more modest means who were unable to be educated in rhetoric or fanciful writing skills.
The New Yorker, September 4, 1926 P. 7 In "The Verdict of Bridleg oose" Llewelyn Powys refers to the Century Club as a "fortress of senile Philistines where everybody is trying to live up to some objective standard of deportment which has its origin in the fussy, exacting taste of some wretched headwaiter".
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.
In method and deportment, he is a modern Tich Freeman.
When the author, a straight-A student, gets a C in deportment, she is beaten, too.
