Mr. Dodson, 57, whose speech reflects his Mississippi roots and whose manner displays the decorum of a military man, said he sees the chance of restoring life to the weary hospital campus as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to mesh all his experiences to create a place that can change the way veterans live and receive health care.
(Who knows what kept Rob Schneider from returning, except for a rare display of noble decorum).
Point of Order: Raised in response to either an infraction of the rules or displays of improper decorum in speaking.
Today's action to evict the demonstrators, who have demanded that the Navy halt bombing exercises and leave the island, ended with unusual decorum displayed by both sides.
Such displays of mayoral decorum are not always very informative, however, and they are a lot different from the Giuliani press conferences in which the mayor minces few words and states his views with searing clarity.
There was comparable decorum displayed by the ousted MPs.
Tony introduced the big names around the room, then described the long struggle over the land, saying -- "Although there was community opposition, the debate was always civil with people on both sides displaying respect and decorum".
The two older men who mentor him (one begrudgingly) on their many pickups and deliveries likewise display a sense of decorum and on-the-job exchanges that suggest natural behavior, rather than a novel and thematically useful milieu.
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 argument is expectably framed by Pufendorf's general assumption that such counterproductivity would violate the divine intention of having human actions display a certain "order, decorum, or beauty" (DJN II.1.5; Pufendorf 1994a, p. 138); however, it is solidly based as well on a description of observable human tendencies and behaviors.
She doesn't really want to talk about this: his sons were small at the time, and however much decorum everybody displayed - which was evidently quite a lot - being knocked sideways by an apparently inappropriate love affair (he was 15 years older, and worked with his wife) is never an entirely easy experience.
