• He watched as the cook and the girl rearranged themselves in more decorous attitudes.

    NEWYORKER: The Limner

  • In those more decorous days, the studio was also worried about the screenplay's salty language.

    WSJ: Book Review: Making 'Patton'

  • That being said, is Congress a bit more decorous than it was, say, 100, 150 years ago?

    NPR: A Quick Trip Through the History of Capitol Hill

  • Before, fashion photographs were shot in soft focus, with the model looking demurely away from the camera and in decorous sitting rooms.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But when exactly was this idyllic period when debate was more decorous?

    FORBES: What a Hotly Contested Election Means for Markets

  • Some fox kitsch remains--a mural behind the bar depicts Copley employees as foxes, reading newspapers and drinking martinis--but now the vibe is more decorous.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The angry hauliers and farmers who, in 2000, blockaded refineries in protest at the cost of fuel were more successful than those ranks of decorous rustics.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Opponents of voting reform, however, can't afford the luxury of deploying only their most decorous arguments: one recent poll gave the pro-AV campaign a lead of ten points.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of the AV referendum

  • We are in hearty agreement that we are all responsible adults striving to be civil and decorous and should not do things like look for Kevin Garnett on a bus.

    WSJ: Carmelo Anthony Takes the Wheel

  • He had a decorous way of holding his spoon.

    NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

  • Buckingham Palace has just put on the largest-ever exhibition of its main occupant's evening gowns and personal jewelry, featuring everything from figure-hugging dresses from her heyday in the 1940 to the more decorous outfits of the present.

    FORBES: She Changes From Day To Day

  • Battersby sounds like an appropriately British name for a place with such decorous service, but, in fact, it refers to the street in Philadelphia on which Joseph Ogrodnek, a chef and co-owner, formerly of Gramercy Tavern, grew up.

    NEWYORKER: Battersby

  • So, instead of spending three hours in a single restaurant, I continue to roam, nibbling at glimpses of the moon between the pachinko parlours, the click-clack of high-heels down an alleyway towards Kiyamachi, the way the couples still sit at decorous intervals along the riverbank, formal as courtiers, even if talking of that wild night in Waikiki.

    BBC: The walk that made me love Japan

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