In a series of smaller works, on the other hand, Ms. Gilje has demure women lifted from Renaissance paintings shamelessly displaying their breasts, suggesting the possibility of wilder female urges percolating below the service of high-culture decorum.
But it also tones them down, presenting them more baldly while maintaining a higher level of decorum.
The postmistress, Dorcas Lane (who was also the owner of the adjoining smithy), was an unconventional career woman, modern in her moral views, but with old-fashioned good taste and a high sense of decorum.
(Although Spicer did not make any promises about the briefing room, he "expressed concern that journalists adhere to a high level of decorum at press briefings and press conferences," according to a readout of the meeting from Mason, which is akin to a spokesman for Miley Cyrus requesting that concert attendees dress modestly and not engage in any provocative dancing).
Respect for the courts and a general high level of decorum is paramount.
Determined to bring a higher degree of decorum to the chamber's proceedings, Carroll opened the 1968 legislative session with a single, powerful whack of his gavel.
Then, in a brilliant twist back to his origins, he uses this same high style, against all decorum, to portray people regarded as "low".
This minor miracle occurs regularly at Acqua Pazza, a solid but unspectacular Italian seafood restaurant that scores exceptionally high on appearance and decorum.
I also only hire men to work on my teams that have high emotional quotients and a high level of professionalism and decorum, as well as those with strong female friends, partners or networks.
None of those problems are likely to be resolved without a modicum of propriety and good taste in behavior — decorum — at the highest reaches of state government.
The job of the presiding officer of the "mother of parliaments" usually demands a high degree of dignity and decorum.
