Sentences with phrase «decorum as»

Despite his own unjust incarceration, the elderly man maintains his decorum as a gentleman while chipping away at the rocky floor of his penitentiary.

It features a group of gentlemanly spies who worry as much about fashion and decorum as saving the world, a megalomaniacal villain with a preposterous plan, a sub-antagonist with a unique set of weapons, and a secret lair built into a mountain and filled with disposable henchmen in matching white uniforms.

He stepped into a bathroom stall and sprinkled the ashes into the toilet with as much decorum as the setting allowed.

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In a world of informal communication demonstrating a little decorum in business interactions is a great way to make you stand out as a professional.

But for now, it's in Canada's interest that Trudeau do as many of them in Washington as decorum allows.

The Standing Orders are intended to maintain decorum and civility in the Legislature as well as direct the proceedings in an orderly fashion.

As the title suggests, Mark seems to miss the point a bit, but I am grateful that the elders at Mars Hill held him accountable and asked him to «do better» in speaking about these issues with decorum and respect.

If something as innocent as having some decorum is so offensive to you, you can leave the room to the more mature adults.

His «vision of a traditional service infused with English, decorum, and modern education,» writes Michael R. Cohen in his recent book, The Birth of Conservative Judaism, was perfectly compatible with what later became known as «Modern Orthodoxy.»

If the short ribs I posted earlier this week elicit romance, opulence, and proper decorum, then ají de gallina resides on the opposite spectrum for when I eat this, I want nothing more than to cozy up in my favorite, most slouchiest pajama bottoms and go at this with a ravenous, no - holds - bar hunger that I'm certain is terribly unattractive, disheveled and wide - eyed as I appear.

Without warning, a barefoot, homeless woman punched me in the mouth as she walked past in a stupor, oblivious to all forms of social decorum.

According to one newspaper poll, while a sizable contingent feels his outsized heart and winning ways trump any breaches in decorum, more Aussies characterize him as a «vain brat with no ethics or manners» than as an «outstanding Australian sportsman.»

Innit and Sue, As you know I believe the time has come for Wenger to step down, but really pleased that there is still some decorum around.

Even Bobby's own brothers warn him about showing «proper decorum» in appearances — as if he were a small boy.

I'm allowing views on both sides as long as nothing gets personal or beyond decorum.

«In golf, customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play.

This is because women with Aspergers are smart and good looking and are able to somehow pass as normal in a world even though they care relatively little for social decorum.

Just as a BFing mother should refrain from breaching decorum, the people around her should refrain from embarrassing her or behaving like busy bodies.

But I read your tweets and your blog post and you definitely singled out BF as being rude, a breach of decorum, and undignified.

Duffy picked one of her own poems, An Unseen, while Riddell chose the classic Wilfred Owen verse Dulce et Decorum Est which he described as the «greatest war poem ever written.»

MPs will now be free to continue to use handheld devices in the chamber as long as they conduct themselves «with decorum».

Many Trump supporters see this as a virtue; but it conflicts with GOPE ideas of dignity and decorum.

They should do things with decorum so that at the end of the day, we will have Ekiti as one of the APC states in Nigeria.

The statement described the comments made by the Defence Minister as irresponsible, and dismissed them as mere propaganda from a state official who is expected to act with more decorum.

«PDP is on a voyage of total destruction and abandonment with the emergence of uncultured governor like Mr Fayose that lacks decorum, whose past records, attitude and public utterance are seen as affront.

For all its pomp and decorum, I'm pretty sure most of the time we hugged others as a greeting at Cambridge, and that's how I've always greeted most of my closest friends.

He must have decorum and zeal, passion and understanding as well as love and honesty, he must be faithful...

Tommy's utterly idiosyncratic persona is always hilarious as he filters normal interactions through a mind that seems completely foreign to concepts of simple social decorum.

In a community riven with beaten - down lives, this childlike striver's occasional breaks with decorum barely qualify as unusual and often seem understandable.

Think no further than the updated version of Sherlock Holmes he has essayed as a high - functioning sociopath with minimal social skills and no sense of decorum.

Ideas and emotions are always at play and in conflict as they follow their own paths, and all three performers carve out committed performances of driven characters expressing themselves within the confines of social decorum.

The country is in turmoil, but in the relative safety of their lodgings, the reporters are discussing questions of professional decorum, such as whether or not it's fine to have sex with a member of a competitor's security detail.

Without a Roger Greenberg to agitate, the hesitant audiences relax, and while there are still the odd jab or two to decorum, you feel safe having Frances as your protagonist, she is harmless, «undateable» and a stand in for a lot of late twentysomethings unsure of their place in the world.

Kingsley's roundhouse climactic speech reveals evil as a beast not easily classified and explained, but it's not until the epilogue that Polanski unleashes his film's final, and most powerful, punch — a supple crane shot inside a concert hall that both evokes the inextricable web of deceit, violence, and shame that binds Death and the Maiden's three crippled characters, and stands as a superlative evocation of how man's crimes against his fellow man are frequently hidden beneath a façade of everyday decorum.

For a 10th - grade poetry unit, I had students read traditional poems such as Wilfred Owen's «Dulce et Decorum Est» and Emily Dickinson's «Because I could not stop for Death,» and analyze the poetic devices in them.

Such decorum is not only necessary, but demanded of us as children of God and members of the family of man.

While teachers are the ones handing out homework assignments and giving lectures, decorum was set aside as their athleticism came out, including assistant principal Stacy Miller's mean overhand serve in the volleyball games with the ninth - graders grappling to get the ball back over the net.

Likewise, issues surrounding school discipline loom large, with middle - class standards of behavior and decorum recast as a form of cultural hegemony imposed by well - off, mainly white parents intent on remaining in control.

The Bentley handles everything with decorum, as you'd expect.

The ZF eight - speed automatic transmission is, as ever, a paragon of self - shifting decorum.

Doc Hata lives an exemplary American small - town life, but, as Lee masterfully reveals, his decorum conceals an immigrant's tragic past.

He stubbornly rejected decorum and the picturesque, and turned away as well from the charming mysteries of Howard Hodgkins and the pleasing eye candies served up by David Hockney.

Known by his nom de plume CPLY, he was a self - taught artist pushing the limits of art - world decorum, as well as a collector, gallerist and connector of some of the most important artists of the 20th century, in particular European Surrealists and Dadaists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, and American Pop artists.

Video installation «Dulce et Decorum Est» presented as part of Surveillance.02 a show curated by Liza Faktor and Anna Van Lenten.

At the Frick, one has fewer physical outlets, and I often rush through the actual Rococo period rooms as fast as Enlightenment decorum permits.

For Dubuffet, the raw and uninhibited expression of Art Brut provided a fresh and alternative direction to what he saw as the stifling decorum and conformity of French culture and the Western tradition.

Such artists as Courbet, Corot and others of the Barbizon School, Manet, Degas, and Toulouse - Lautrec chose to paint scenes of ordinary daily and nocturnal life that often offended the sense of decorum of their contemporaries.

Lozano's turbulent tool paintings and drawings can be understood as critiques of both sexual and art world decorum at a moment when the feminist movement had yet to coalesce and actively question either.

Limited signed edition prints of all my artworks will be also available, such as the print featuring «Decorum»: a serie of mini colorful male derrieres.

As a young artist, Koons was included in many exhibitions curated by Richard Milazzo including The New Capital at White Columns in 1984, Paravision at Postmasters Gallery in 1985, Cult and Decorum at Tibor De Nagy Gallery in 1986, Time After Time at Diane Brown Gallery in 1986, Spiritual America at CEPA in 1986, and Art at the End of the Social at The Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden in 1988.