Sentence examples for seemly from inspiring English sources

And while it may not be very seemly, some businessmen believe that appearances count.

But in California, where Democrats control the governorship and both legislative houses, the politics was no more seemly.

A seemly distance between church and state is probably better for both, and certainly better for Spanish society at large.

But most Keynesians, anxious to appear fiscally responsible, say that budget deficits in bad times should be offset by surpluses in good times, keeping the level of debt seemly.

Meanwhile some illustrious establishments, such as Nobu in London, a fabled haunt of the glitterati, have had their awards snatched away.As ever, the debate among some chefs is whether it is seemly to be so obsessed with winning Michelin stars.

In any normal democracy, it would surely have been more seemly for a candidate to wait until after winning the election before kicking out his prime minister.Russia is, of course, far from being either normal or democratic.

It is now pursuing Mr Williams, Mr Adler and others with seemly vigour.

With Verdi it was the vehemence of dramatic utterance rather than the presumptions of the orchestra that called for louder and more emphatic singing than would have been thought seemly in the age of bel canto.

Ornamentum, he claims, is only an "auxiliary brightness," the quality and extent of which will depend essentially on what is appropriate and seemly.

Because the first extant plays the 14th-century Abele spelen ("seemly plays")—were entirely secular (and may have been the first of such in Europe), incorporating romantic themes from the earlier songs, there is reason to attribute the emergence of drama in the Netherlands as much to mime and song as to liturgical action.

St. Paul wrote to Timothy "that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion".