Sentence examples for rigid etiquette from inspiring English sources
Generally popular with her subjects, she offended Viennese aristocracy by her impatience with the rigid etiquette of the court.
These worlds are picturesque, elegantly filmed, and ruled by rigid etiquette — lit up, for viewers, by the thrill of seeing brutality enforced (or, in the case of "Downton Abbey," a really nice house kept in the family).
But missing from his account are the fear and violence of Nicholas's rule, not to mention the crushing boredom, servility and rigid etiquette at his court, which took a heavy toll on the poet's life and art.
These monotonous little routines of office life - the rigid etiquette of remembering who you should make a cup of tea for; the office jokes that everyone politely smiles at despite the fact they fail the fundamental purpose of a joke, ie being funny; the interest you feign in the progress of an infection afflicting your desk-mate - are basically the highest expression of our civilization.
Traditional art forms such as tea ceremonies and classical kabuki theatre also have rigid etiquette rules and mastering them take many years to perfect.
Although constrained by rigid etiquette, the art-loving king seems to have had an unusually close relationship with the painter.
But trapped within the gilded cage of a noble home and rigid social etiquette, the now formally named "Princess Kaguya" longs for the lost countryside of her childhood, and the friendship of handsome ragamuffin Sutemaru, which has sparked an eternal flame in her heart.
Until around 1920, beefsteak etiquette was quite rigid.
(Purists, of course, will sniff that the Garden State's penchant for good manners truly started with Millicent Fenwick, the iconoclastic congresswoman from Bernardsville who, as an associate editor at Vogue in the 1940's, wrote the pleasingly rigid "Vogue's Book of Etiquette").
There are rigid codes among fox hunters for dress and etiquette.
