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How to use courtliness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word courtliness? Here are some examples.

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She firmly tells her audience that chivalry and courtliness are about real things, that hypocrites and coy flibbertigibbets are without honour.
And courtliness certainly involved making a good impression on one's audience, as courtesy still does today.
Such ferocious good cheer and courtliness prevails that you may find yourself expecting someone to click his heels.
Analects passages such as these made Confucius the model of courtliness and personal decorum for countless generations of Chinese officials.
Within this improbable framework, the poet has incorporated a discussion of courtliness and love which is not without sophistication.
Sexy, loud, grinding, and aggressive, these works adamantly reject everything we associate with academic dance: symmetry, courtliness, poise.
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.
The latter's stiff courtliness and regal but nefarious ways provide the perfect foil to Flynn's easy charm.
In the hall, he surprised me by taking my arm, not out of courtliness but because he needed somebody to lean on.
With an old Southern courtliness, he said goodbye to my wife and wandered into the crowd around the platform.
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.
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.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
Sir Terence was the very quintessence of courtliness, of concern for the other.
She liked the courtliness, and gave in return her lovely smile and a little bow.
The evening was one to remember, with its brilliance and beauty and courtliness.
He took her to have an ice, and she observed with pleasure the courtliness with which he used her.
He could flatter the young by his courtliness and amuse the old by his repartee.
Despite his irresponsibility, there's always a kindness, even a courtliness, that makes it hard not to like him.
Tom Lantos combined the courtliness and sophistication of his native Hungary with a deep pride in being an American.
So to set an example of courtliness and humility, he sat among the lowest.
There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion.
I believe there should be more chivalry, courtesy and courtliness in the House of Commons than is evident now.
Her playfulness and pleasure in the game of courtliness forsook her.
And the kindliness and the courtliness of that bow made them very happy.
His other distinctive quality is the tone of somewhat artificial courtliness which was soon to mark the lyrics of the other poets of the Cavalier party.
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