Sentence examples for standard of deportment from inspiring English sources

The New Yorker, September 4, 1926 P. 7 In "The Verdict of Bridleg oose" Llewelyn Powys refers to the Century Club as a "fortress of senile Philistines where everybody is trying to live up to some objective standard of deportment which has its origin in the fussy, exacting taste of some wretched headwaiter".

It is a bastion of civility, upholds high standards of deportment, champions virtues long since abandoned elsewhere, cherishes fair play, honesty and integrity, values that we spend all day and all night preaching to our children.

Elsewhere standards of clerical deportment declined, threatening the moral leadership with which Carolingian prelates had supported public order.

Developing Standards of Conduct.

With energy and determination she set about restoring those high standards of scholarship and deportment.

I'm informed by the apartment lessor, Travis, who's twenty-six and some kind of junior restaurant manager and yet somehow also a man of property, that the co-operators require (per their forwarded e-mail) "meaningful letters of reference that specifically address the high standards of integrity and deportment expected of a co-operative resident".

You might think Arthur would be a paragon of deportment.

He gave her a little lecture on the fundamentals of deportment.

The element of nostalgia in "The Artist" isn't for a style of filmmaking but for a style of deportment.

One of the country's leading critics, who writes for a prominent progressive blog, called the essay "rowdy," which I interpreted to mean "lack of deportment".

The classical text for the Confucian ideal of deportment and dress is Book X of the Analects, in which the emphasis is on propriety in every detail, whether at home or in affairs of state or ceremony.