His wit was rarely visible in court, where he was careful to preserve decorum.
The rules about stretching and chewing gum, for example, are intended to preserve decorum in the courtroom, said Mr. Whitman of the Defense Department.
If the Cenotaph were in a military cemetery or on a battlefield site, it might be possible to preserve decorum around it.
In a contemporary print, uniformed pikemen guard the field and preserve decorum.
To diagnose yourself you click on to a body map, which has breasts but no other features of gender, and an arrow pointing politely at the belly-button for "reproductive system", thus preserving the decorums; clicking on it produces a list of ailments long enough to give a hypochondriac a heart attack.
We didn't linger long, because I was intent on scoring some crab claws at South Beach's beloved, antique Joe's Stone Crab, where jacketed waiters preserve 1950s decorum.
The fact that "Mother" keeps its balance is a tribute to the leading actress, who — even as her character becomes an amateur sleuth, and stumbles into evidence of nastiness and sexual profligacy — takes care to preserve the decorum of her age and gender.
Such rules are intended to maintain decorum, to ascertain the will of the majority, to preserve the rights of the minority, and to facilitate the orderly transaction of the business of an assembly.
The Passion, dealing with Jesus' last hours and death, must preserve a certain decorum.
Unfortunately, it had been overbroiled and was so rubbery that even a knife-and-fork combo couldn't get through with decorum preserved.
