| She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour. |
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| And courtliness certainly involved making a good impression on one's audience, as courtesy still does today. |
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| Such ferocious good cheer and courtliness prevails that you may find yourself expecting someone to click his heels. |
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| Analects passages such as these made Confucius the model of courtliness and personal decorum for countless generations of Chinese officials. |
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| Within this improbable framework, the poet has incorporated a discussion of courtliness and love which is not without sophistication. |
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| Sexy, loud, grinding, and aggressive, these works adamantly reject everything we associate with academic dance: symmetry, courtliness, poise. |
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| With the braggart dash and swagger of the soldiers of fortune amongst whom Deutsch had served, the headsman presents the Baptist's head with exaggerated courtliness to Salome. |
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| The latter's stiff courtliness and regal but nefarious ways provide the perfect foil to Flynn's easy charm. |
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| In the hall, he surprised me by taking my arm, not out of courtliness but because he needed somebody to lean on. |
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| With an old Southern courtliness, he said goodbye to my wife and wandered into the crowd around the platform. |
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| The next day, Struth, his courtliness restored, and I walked around Dresden and talked about his project of taking photographs at industrial and scientific workplaces. |
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| The upper class or nobility, represented chiefly by the Knight and his Squire, was in Chaucer's time steeped in a culture of chivalry and courtliness. |
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| Miss Huddle was unable to decide in her mind whether the action savoured of Louis Quatorzian courtliness or the reprehensible Roman attitude towards the Sabine women. |
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