Sentence examples for excessive decorum from inspiring English sources

It was excessive decorum, as if the very mention of family might be insulting to our grieving hostess.

Brookner's characters, wary of excessive displays of emotion, and governed by the constraints of gentility and decorum, don't really do anguish; it verges on the vulgar.

Diplomatic decorum was forgotten.

But decorum was maintained.

A bit of decorum.

Gentility and decorum reign.

Decorum began to vanish.

Rhetoricians called it "decorum".

A sense of decorum.

Nonetheless, decorum ruled.

The first is access and decorum.