“I must say that the chairman handled the job with decorum and taste, and with the dignity required of him.”

“I prefer my men with a sense of good taste and decorum that you have yet to demonstrate.”

“Also, please do ignore these boorish Yanks who go about their business with flagrant disregard for military decorum and totally without charm.”

“Stolid brick houses with bay windows and big gardens exude an air of decorousness and prosperity.”

“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.”

“The kids sat down, and within a moment all were in a state resembling decorousness.”

“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.”