Embarrassment concerns lighter social gaffes and violations of decorous comportment. |
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But the move to censure clothes rather than behavior or comportment is dishonest in more ways than one. |
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The theoretical framework takes from this disturbed mode of comportment a hyperconscious subjectivity. |
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It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the United Nations or of the British foreign office. |
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Mere thugs did not possess the ability to daunt the comportment of someone with his breeding and class. |
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Despite its potential as a point of connection between theory and comportment, etiquette has been presented in less than favorable light. |
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Personal comportment often appears crass, loud, and effusive to people from other cultures, but Americans value emotional and bodily restraint. |
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Men and women are expected to comply with different norms of behavior and bodily comportment. |
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When a stranger calls, no rules of social comportment apply beyond whatever passes for civility from one man to the next. |
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Maltese culture defines correct behavior and comportment in a variety of ways depending on status, familiarity, age, and social connections. |
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Davis was compelled to answer questions about Knight's comportment and coaching methods. |
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He used the tenets of population biology, ordered by natural selection and biological fitness, to look at societal comportment. |
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It is hard to think of people more demure in rhetorical comportment than senior envoys of the UN or the British Foreign Office. |
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It may not be criminal but, at the end of the day, is this the standard of ethical comportment that we expect from our senior public servants? |
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Their language, clothing and comportment will demonstrate the same desire for purity with simplicity and conviction. |
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Victorian conceptions of women's comportment and their place in society as well as everyone else's place in the Victorian age seem strange and confining. |
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Their comportment and appearance are not kooky by any means. |
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There was something subtle in the bearing and comportment of those who were native here. |
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And those now have very little to do with any notion of excellence, either of character or of comportment. |
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As for Romney, his comportment on Wednesday was less manful than muted, less bold than bland. |
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His teachings, preserved in the lunyu or analects, form the foundation of much of the subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man. |
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In other words, voters did not simply refuse to vote for Mr Kinnock because of his look, voice and comportment. |
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One of his chief exhibits is the Republicans' comportment during the past year of divided government. |
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But he is not yet top man, and his comportment in America was under close scrutiny back home. |
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I did not initiate the part of that conversation about the comportment of Mike Frizzell. |
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To modify only if you wish to change the comportment of the management module. |
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The Medici funeral-effigy ritual, then, was adopted in the same spirit of sovereign comportment that had motivated the Dukes of Lorraine. |
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Development of comportment, relational and situational capacities which correspond to knowing how to behave. |
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We now have the potential problem of people not presenting themselves in a way the government believes is proper comportment. |
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Tobacco vendors are aware of the usual behaviour of teens seeking tobacco and of the unnatural comportment of test shoppers. |
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She has a woman's hands, a woman's comportment, a woman's slender etherealness. |
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There are notable resemblances between the two figures in their comportment and demeanor and, even more so, in their generalized, even-featured beauty. |
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It is below any standard of ethical comportment, even if it is not technically illegal, because of the high standard of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. |
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Yet this form of intimate candor, while seemingly incommensurate with the comportment of a mature and accomplished artist, has deep roots in Western intellectual history. |
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A simple example will illustrate the difference between this disturbed mode of comportment and a more primary manner of embodying temporality and culture. |
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Respect for authority and exemplary behaviour were top priorities on the front, and nurses had been indoctrinated into this comportment through their professional training. |
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But in the light of the anti-democratic comportment of academics in positions of power, the ability of academics and universities in Africa to be defenders of public interest was very much in doubt. |
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In addition, there is a code of conduct, the standards of conduct for the international civil service, which sets out guiding principles for staff comportment that is consistent with the status of international civil servant. |
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Not only is Mr Thaksin's popular mandate rather more credible than Ms Arroyo's, his tactics in letting the voters be the ultimate judges of his comportment are somewhat more democratic. |
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The comportment of the Municipality of Alleyn-and-Cawood and of the MRC Pontiac in this matter raise serious questions regarding the power given to elected officials. |
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Even knowing that they are certainly capable of, for example, showing the correct comportment, are we sure that they can also explain and legitimise it? |
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They simply point out that we have paid far too little attention to the comportment of children and, indeed, the behaviour that we, as adults, model for them. |
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They earn respect from strangers through their firm, occasionally menacing comportment, but they are also remarkably obedient to the herder and a loyal, inseparable companion. |
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