The campaign finance groups say the solicitation went beyond a violation of decorum.
Do not let anyone convince you that Trump's evils are matters of performance or personality or affect — that they can be overlooked, or that there is a mere violation of decorum underway.
The incident amounted to sacrilege in a sport where wrestlers scatter salt to purify the ring, and even the faintest smile after a victory is considered a violation of decorum.
Webster explained this kind of thing this way: "Language which cannot be uttered in company without a violation of decorum or the rules of good breeding exposes the scriptures to the scoffs of unbelievers, impairs their authority, and multiplies or confirms the enemies of our holy religion".
In an extraordinary violation of decorum, Arab journalists didn't merely report this abdication, they barracked it Saudi Arabia's stance - which it has subsequently sought to correct by harshly criticizing America's tolerance of Israel's "savagery, killing and destruction" - was also unashamedly, if surreptitiously, sectarian.
This is a gross violation of congressional decorum.
To denounce the two villagers would have been an insult, a violation of village decorum.
In the meantime, all that each of us can control is our own behavior, meaning that we can model a more responsible level of discourse and, when necessary, push back against the worst violations of accuracy and decorum.
returned to the scene of the crime -- or, at least, the clear violation of House rules of decorum -- Monday afternoon with the first House floor speech of the week.
Cunha's violation of basic parliamentary decorum was on display when he lied to Investigative Committee focusing on Petrobras at the Chamber of Deputies in March of last year.
