decorousness

IPA: dˈɛkɝʌsnʌs

Examples of "decorousness" in Sentences

Here's the point -- I think the middle-brow decorousness of Times editors gets in the way of cultural truths.
Which do you think should pay greatest attention to the decorousness of his appearance in the delivery of a speech?
The Democratic leadership and the liberal intelligentsia seemed pathetic and exhausted, wedded to musty ideals of bipartisanship and decorousness.
Having grown in an elegant Reform congregation, prayer was for me a matter of majesty and decorousness, which is to say from my perspective, boring.
But I think decorousness plays at least a small role in the usefulness of blog reviews, particularly when it comes to using quotes that go on the front and back covers of books.
I'm a little late to the party, but here is an absurd decorousness in the denunciations -- from the Obama and McCain campaigns and across the liberal blogosphere -- of the current New Yorker cover.
Maslin on Audition by Barbara Walters: If any single thing keeps 'Audition' from achieving the stature of Katharine Graham's 'Personal History,' the book that set the high-water mark for memoirs of the politically and socially well-connected, it is the excess decorousness built into