More subtle aesthetic perceptions may have led to demands for 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.
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.
"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".
I just thought, What a great sense of decorum Natalie has.
He has actually been the governor who has exercised greater patience and decorum than the rest of us".
Chastised, funny, boastful, bleak, these poems take great risks with decorum (poetic and otherwise) in order to authenticate their artlessness.
As a neo-classicist he set great store by decorum, hardly the most thrilling of theatrical attributes.
