Oddly, Vapnyar depicts this almost lurid exultation with a decorousness that seems as withdrawn and reluctant as her characters are engaged and inquiring.
Because on sitcoms, unlike dramas like "Six Degrees" or "Nip/Tuck," race as an issue must be faced and cannot be handled in that quasi-liberal television way, meaning with outward decorousness, a deep sense of duty and high anxiety.
Maylene is witty, with some brittle decorousness.
In fact, his style, combining decorousness with great intelligence, is admirably suited to Franz Lehár's wonderful operetta.
His reading of the First Piano Concerto was a picture of clarity, in terms of both sheer piano texture and the flow of musical discourse, and the most striking characteristic of his reading was its deft balance of Classical decorousness with Beethovenian mischief.
But instances of truly excessive decorousness or decoration are rare in "Beyond Silence," and a pervasive but slight stiltedness is generally redeemed by the sharpness of Hoffman's observations: And skies athrob with gaud and roar of firework, Gigantic needles jabbing high Swiftly trailing flame like thread, then piercing The beady button of the moon...
Britain began its formal farewell to the queen mother today with a display of pageantry and decorousness that recalled a time when the monarchy defined the country's sense of duty and the royal family commanded unquestioning respect.
But the building itself still charmed with its incongruous suggestion of European decorousness.
With extended looking, one starts to feel a certain leveling decorousness, but there are intriguing oddities, like Stavit Allweis's picture of a wild-eyed girl in a pool of water, a kind of surrealistic fairy painting (Johnson).
I respect the argument that they're making, and I think it's one that Breitbart himself would have agreed with — not with the substance of their criticisms, of course, but with their point about not getting hung up on a phony decorousness when important arguments and issues are at stake.
