Sentence examples for greater decorum from inspiring English sources

More subtle aesthetic perceptions may have led to demands for greater decorum.

Which makes me wonder: if philosophy is to be more "gender friendly", do philosophers have first to act, well, if not in more "ladylike" fashion, then at least with greater decorum?

Rather than embodying the demi-monde at nocturnal play, the party guests could scarcely appear more respectable or behave with greater decorum; there's not even much sense of outrage at that truly shocking moment when Alfredo flings his winnings at Violetta.

They desired it be expressed with greater decorum.

"Some great decorum, some fetish of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and crieddown by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down.

The services are held with the greatest decorum and everybody is taken on a tour of the place, and Mr. Shane proceeds to tell them just what is what in coffins, linings, etc.

"You conducted yourselves with great decorum and civility, and if the eyes of the nation were upon Wisconsin, then you have shown how democracy can flourish even amongst those who passionately disagree".

He has actually been the governor who has exercised greater patience and decorum than the rest of us".

"When you have the opposition party to the White House calling the shots in the Senate, I think there would be more oversight and more critical oversight, albeit with the greater measure of decorum that is typical of the Senate," said Adam Zagorin, a senior fellow at the Project on Government Oversight.

I just thought, What a great sense of decorum Natalie has.

Chastised, funny, boastful, bleak, these poems take great risks with decorum (poetic and otherwise) in order to authenticate their artlessness.