Sentence examples for systems of etiquette from inspiring English sources

Indeed, events held in public dance halls and concert salons were commercial rather than invitational initiatives, and they did not adhere to the elaborate systems of etiquette that governed ballrooms.

For an illuminating discussion of the analogies between semantic rules and systems of etiquette, see McKeown-Green (2002).

But our anthropologist might also become interested in the nature of manners; he might wonder how, in general, one set of rules of table manners comes to be the system of etiquette governing a particular group.

The conversation around San Francisco's recent "Nude-in," held to protest a proposed law that would limit public nudity, which is currently legal in the city, raises an interesting question: When a practice arrives at the point where it has a system of etiquette, has it lost its shock value?

This system of etiquette has been developed by the horses for thousands of years and is ingrained in every sane individual.

Students of Southern culture say that people like Ms. Deen learned a quiet, crippling system of polite etiquette to smooth the edges of segregation.

Her openhearted manner (she giggles a lot, uses exclamation points in her e-mails, and, in accordance with taarof, the elaborate system of Persian etiquette, is always offering lemonade or insisting on sitting in the least comfortable chair) hardly suggests transgression.

"Gossip functioned like an immune system, detecting and repairing even this tiny breach of etiquette," Wilson writes.

And one last point of etiquette.

These half-buried attitudes intersect with sensitive matters of etiquette.

"There was a kind of etiquette I absorbed," True says.