"public manners" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to the conduct and behavior expected in public and in social situations. For example: "Our society is increasingly forgetting the importance of basic public manners such as saying please and thank you."
Presumably the veneer of ordinary public manners will gradually fall away, revealing the private self in all its unsettling nakedness.
His duties as playwright and player are deplored as "public means" in Sonnet 111, a lament at Fortune, the "guilty goddess" who did not "better for my life provide / Than public means which public manners breeds" so that "my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand".
His duties as playwright and player are deplored as "public means" in Sonnet 111, a lament at Fortune, the "guilty goddess" who did not "better for my life provide / Than public means which public manners breeds" so that "my nature is subdued / To what it works in, like the dyer's hand".Dirty work, in other words, though lucrative.
As practiced by Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism appears to produce a version of the Islamic State with slightly better public manners, where vicious intolerance enjoys the pretense of legal procedure.
Since democracy realizes equality in a highly public manner and publicity is a great and egalitarian value, the equality realized by democracy trumps other kinds of equality.
Norman Tebbit's grave public manner is, apparently, offset by his courtesy in private.
His public manner since he left New Hampshire has been relentlessly upbeat.
Unlike his predecessor Sir Michael Lyons, Patten appeared a political heavyweight with an easy public manner.
He had a raucous laugh and a loosey-goosey public manner.
But lately a change in his public manner has become evident.
In fact, we are remarkably self-regulating and adept at maintaining privacy, in a very public manner.
