The upper register is reserved for quirky departures from pop decorum and for blues improvisations.
His was a Don José whose deterioration from upright decorum to murderous jealousy convinced the eye and ear alike.
"King has done for the female voice what countless singer-composers achieved years ago for the male: liberated it from technical decorum," he wrote.
In a departure from political decorum, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, the longest serving governor in the history of the United States and a Republican, has flatly urged Iowans not to back the senator.
After dancing with hair bound high, the all-female corps de ballet and ballerina return to the stage with hair flowing, a knockout switch from classical decorum to Romantic abandon.
Freed from the decorum and propriety that constrained the wives and daughters of their lovers, these professional beauties confirmed their desirability and allure through the stature of their conquests and, in no small part, the stylishness of their dress.
The founders of American land art — Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Michael Heizer — aimed for an engagement with the outdoors that would break from the confinement of the rectangular frame; from freestanding sculpture that used a park or a landscape as an ornamental setting; and, above all, from the decorum of the gallery or the apartment wall.
Or you could dress like some idea of yourself, a tarted-up badass woman, say, who struggles to break free from social decorum by doing all the things she's not supposed to do: crying in public, showing her ectopic-pregnancy scars, pissing and maybe missing the toilet, coming apart, and then pasting herself back together again.
But for all their charm, some, like authorities in Rome, have shunned love locks because they take away from general "decorum".
But the longing for normalcy speaks to a very real departure from presidential decorum under the current regime, and with very real impact.
