| As a group, we're hesitant to speak up for ourselves, lest our decorousness be tainted by saying something too self-aggrandizing. |
| And this fixed understanding imposes a kind of decorousness on the camerawork. |
| 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. |
| In jazzier compositions you longed for an improviser's spontaneity and development rather than a decorousness better suited to a fern-throttled piano bar. |
| Ever since the engagement Mr. Shanner had been all decorousness and deference. |
| 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. |
