| Political correctness is de rigueur while offering dinner guests non-organic vegetables is a serious faux pas. |
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| Eric did the funny bits and Previn, vamped in a de rigueur monkey suit and swishing a baton, looked on aghast. |
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| It's de rigueur at games in the Dominican Republic, where women in body stockings dance to recorded merengue music on top of the dugouts. |
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| I don't suppose Roy Keane favours his current coiffeur on the grounds that number one shaven heads are still de rigueur at his local barbers. |
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| And the de rigueur fixer upper at such an establishment would be the house pour barley water, served from a mini sized jug into shot glasses. |
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| Otherwise, they're big and feisty, baroque in the manner that has come to be de rigueur. |
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| I guess to their fellow homeboys this is hilarious and considered de rigueur, but to the rest of the world they seem clownish. |
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| She's 48 and a mum of four, but miniskirts, bikinis and corsets are still absolutely de rigueur. |
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| To this end, laboratory coats, gloves, masks and hair coverings are de rigueur for many types of examination. |
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| On the less serious side, outrageously expensive afternoon teas in fancy hotel become de rigueur. |
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| As the article mentions, white gloves were de rigueur for parades and ceremonies, especially if you were part of the color guard. |
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| Imagine a time without guidebooks, when all routes were first ascents, when hemp ropes and cleated boots were de rigueur. |
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| His critically acclaimed band Playgroup brought live electro to the club long before ironic mullets and fauxhawks became de rigueur. |
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| Cold showers, self-denial and a daily ration of physical discomfort were de rigueur and considered character forming. |
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| For nearly a century the groomed front lawn had been de rigueur on almost every street on this continent. |
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| I grew up in Ottawa where wearing snowsuits under your Halloween costume is de rigueur, so this probably shouldn't phase me. |
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| In crowded Athens, heavy drapes are not de rigueur, nor are lowered voices, and the neighbourhood sights and sounds press in upon you. |
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| Natural fibres in cool lightweight fabrics, teamed with slightly shaped shirts to skim the body's contours, will be de rigueur. |
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| In the early to mid nineties, fuzzy guitars and pumping bass lines were de rigueur. |
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| It's de rigueur in high school health classes for marijuana to be presented as the gateway drug. |
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| Plush lounges and hotel bars are de rigueur in NYC for evening entertaining. |
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| Knee breeches or culottes were the de rigueur apparel for 18th century gentlemen. |
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| There, the burning of suits and chaining naked team-mates to goalposts was de rigueur. |
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| Complex copyright law is becoming de rigueur for those interested in the music biz. |
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| Corporate data governance is in the process of moving from de rigueur to de facto to de jure. |
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| Plenty of musicians have their own blogs and online tour diaries have become de rigueur. |
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| A list of favorite books is de rigueur for any forgettable personal webpage. |
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| As for kissing other women, it is de rigueur to 'kiss air' somewhere near the other woman's cheek, though the cheeks usually make contact. |
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| Standalone umbilicoplasties are also rising, now that trousers are low-rise and navel-piercing is de rigueur. |
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| For those born and bred on the coast, rushing seas are de rigueur, and they think nothing of a squall that puts their ketch over to port 45 degrees. |
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| By the end of that century, the ballerina's long tutu and the premier danseur's tights, trunks and maillot became de rigueur and virtually standardized. |
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| And her denials and legal threats are faithfully modeled after the de rigueur motions of past sex-tape shock-feigning stars. |
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| But Haslam notes that downplaying such things is de rigueur for female CEOs entering crisis situations. |
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| Personal attacks are de rigueur, and facts are useful only insofar as they can be twisted beyond all recognition. |
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| In a country where goat-propelled carts are de rigueur and people stop and stare in wonder at a 35-year-old Mack truck chuffing and chugging along the rutted roads. |
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| Do you think that formal social introductions should be de rigueur? |
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| There are the same subtly contoured greens, guarded by the same generic, deep-dish bunkers that have become de rigueur for a major-championship course. |
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| After all, that turf war has been almost de rigueur in Washington political infighting. |
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| And no matter what else a person eats, it is de rigueur to get an order of baked macaroni and cheese on the side. |
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| In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set. |
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| But surely, occasionally, it is tempting for a Suez operative to sweeten some local politician in parts of the world where such payments are de rigueur? |
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| For trips, coat and tie, leather shoes and dress socks are de rigueur. |
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| For Spring, Giannini looked back to that golden era of the late 1960s, where long tunics, oodles of ruffles, and major statement jewels were de rigueur. |
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| Curriculum and uniform remain firmly those of the English public school of the 1930's, with khaki drill and the works of John Buchan still very much de rigueur. |
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| Since Hemingway bent his elbow here, the bar has become de rigueur. |
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| Even at more seemingly conventional Hot 50 establishments, tongue-in-chic ingredients are becoming de rigueur. |
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| It's de rigueur for midnight showings to include rice tossing, paper unraveling and glowstick waving from adoring interactive audiences. |
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| Plenty of evidence suggests, however, that over the last few years barebacking has become common, if not de rigueur, among gay men in general. |
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| Atomistic landscape with no velleities of vitalist, landscape with personality a la rigueur, but personality in its own terms, not in Pelman's, landscapality. |
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| Despite this, some Methodist churches became pioneers in the teetotal Temperance movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, and later it became de rigueur in all. |
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