Although I deal with people at all levels, I maintain a level head and a certain level of decorum even when I am very friendly with colleagues. |
Also, please do ignore these boorish Yanks who go about their business with flagrant disregard for military decorum and totally without charm. |
The idea of decorum had its strongest hold on the traditions of portraiture of nobles and worthies. |
So for any woman to engage this dynamic is to go against social decorums and stereotypes in such a way that she may find herself beyond the pale. |
There is a parallel here with sensation fiction, another literary vogue of the 1860s and 1870s, in which criminality lurks beneath the surface decorums of daily life. |
Although his allegiances lay with Neoclassical assumptions about poetic form and language, his capacity for improvisatory responsiveness to practice that lay outside the prevailing decorums should not be underrated. |