The kids sat down, and within a moment all were in a state resembling decorousness. |
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For all the decorousness of her music and songs, it's her voice that conveys the deepest sense of wonder and truly sells these songs. |
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Stolid brick houses with bay windows and big gardens exude an air of decorousness and prosperity. |
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And this fixed understanding imposes a kind of decorousness on the camerawork. |
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On the recording each party did its best not to let its decorousness get in the way. |
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He took it with him into the streets, galleries, beaches and bars he frequented, shedding the uptight decorousness that verse in the 1950s and '60s was expected to have. |
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It appears as if it is the mark of nobility, decorousness and civicness for a people, society or nation to make laws by which to govern themselves. |
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As a group, we're hesitant to speak up for ourselves, lest our decorousness be tainted by saying something too self-aggrandizing. |
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In jazzier compositions you longed for an improviser's spontaneity and development rather than a decorousness better suited to a fern-throttled piano bar. |
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