Maltese culture defines correct behavior and comportment in a variety of ways depending on status, familiarity, age, and social connections. |
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. |
When a stranger calls, no rules of social comportment apply beyond whatever passes for civility from one man to the next. |
Mere thugs did not possess the ability to daunt the comportment of someone with his breeding and class. |
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? |
Men and women are expected to comply with different norms of behavior and bodily comportment. |