Sentence examples for formal decorum from inspiring English sources
Every year its pastoral bliss high above Central Park is complemented by some sort of benign sculpture exhibition, usually three-dimensional works of formal decorum or playful ingenuity.
By contrast, a painted portrait of the monastic abbot Sangye Yarjon (1203-1272) is a model of formal decorum, serene and superb.
The grisly mayhem is balanced by a quiet, precise sense of formal decorum, and a brutal, vengeful worldview coexists with a disarmingly sentimental moralism.
He is fundamentally concerned with the question of tradition versus modernity, and examines the conventional decorum and formal behavior that in Japan hinder emotional self-expression and inhibit sincere action and plain thought.
Such decorum is not merely "formal" in the American sense; it is the shape in which common humanity finds expression.
Noh and kyōgen were dance and theatre forms that had come to express the gravity and decorum of a rigidly formal samurai ruling class by the end of the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1574 1600).
Stage decorum followed European-American formalities.
The Russians are a very formal people and great sticklers on points of protocol and decorum.
Unless you are in a field that values creativity and originality above traditional business decorum, it's best to play it on the safe side when your letter is formal in nature.
Indeed, Mrs. Clinton has campaigned with such quiet decorum during Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's travails that the public may be tempted to overlook the accomplishment represented by her formal nomination yesterday.
Diplomatic decorum was forgotten.
