But the decorous, gentle equilibrium of yesteryear was also nonsensical.
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The Bern has been more decorous, up to a point.
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Not all French nudes in Swedish museums were so decorous.
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Especially in politics, the old rules of decorous behavior no longer apply.
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Those early 1970s productions were unapologetically decorous, premeditated, luxurious and grown-up.
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This decorous group could have been standing in line at a church supper.
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A delicious tension animates Ledgerwood's combination of decorous pattern and thick, dripping paint.
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A delicious tension animates the combination of decorous pattern and thick, dripping paint.
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Her art ranged from decorous early floral painting to stern, memory-haunted collages.
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The courtroom scenes in Part 3 are decorous but then out of control.
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The past discord aside, Trump sought to make Haley's resignation a decorous event.
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They also faced a gantlet of decorous critics, clergymen and anti-smut crusaders.
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Yeah, with covers of park benches covered in leaves, very decorous, very timid.
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Over the years, she has turned out decorous chronicles of the monarchy's younger generation.
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Mr. Romney, decorous and respectable, gave Mr. Trump the chance to Jeb somebody again.
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It begins with quiet empathy and decorous music, a parlor piano ballad with piano.
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PARIS — The Théâtre de l'Odéon here had planned a decorous tribute to May 22018.
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A decorous-looking woman with white hair stood up, yelling, waving both her thumbs down.
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When one referred to the "gentleman in the White House," the otherwise decorous group hooted.
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When the Capulet women follow (almost a minute in), also in columns, they're decorous and subservient.
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This decorous clientele made the impudent trio stand out all the more when they finally showed.
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The bass-baritone Christian Van Horn was decorous and steely as Publio, the guardian of protocol.
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Instead, the dominant image of conservatism in Never Trump media outlets is an incongruously decorous one.
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He's produced a decorous and unexpectedly slight show, with the apocalyptic smudges scrubbed away for summer.
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The poem ended by mocking writers who clung to traditional and decorous rhymes in their verses.
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"But also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood."
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For nearly 48 hours, Trump embraced the role of decorous winner and temperate future commander-in-chief.
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There's a fair bit of decorous but unabashed nudity, erotic situations, torture, and a ton of blood.
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He engaged in some decorous maneuvering and decided that she was the woman he wanted to marry.
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" The effortful diction suggests the exertions involved for this decorous man to contain "the havoc within me.
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However, if you're pining for the good old days of decorous hearings and confirmations by acclamation, stop.
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To the decorous phrasing of a big band singer she brings a steady current of soul-music sassiness.
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But until now, such remarks were delivered in private, in fairly decorous terms, and rarely threatened direct action.
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Jones is brisk and decorous, smart and sensitive, though she sometimes leans too heavily into the Brooklyn accent.
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If nothing else, Tuesday's statement proved that he cannot be muzzled by his staff or decorous diplomatic protocol.
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Mustard beurre blanc is often found providing a decorous yellow veil over a chicken breast or salmon fillet.
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When the mayor rants about impure races, either he or the screenplay is too decorous to mention Jews.
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Are you in the mood for room-shaking rock-soul ("Moderation") or a decorous piano waltz ("Haunted House")?
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Maybe. But I'm left with a new question: Is that because we've become more decorous toward our public figures?
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"You have to treat an institution like a whore," he said, referring to the decorous house that Chanel built.
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But even as the city is one of Afghanistan's most decorous and peaceful, an air of intrigue infuses Herat.
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It starts and ends something like a parlor song, a piano waltz sung by Welch at her most decorous.
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The harmony is largely tonal, but it is anti-Romantic in effect, tending instead toward a decorous neo-Baroque sensibility.
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Arne's music turned out to be unremarkable, largely in lilting/skipping triple-time, with decorous but dreary 18th-century utility.
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When it was over, Trump and Ryan even put out a joint statement pointing toward progress and a more decorous future.
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Oddly, the new one is much more cautious and decorous in its treatment of the emotional dynamics of a complicated family.
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Album Review Extremism rarely sounds as decorous as it does on "Mental Illness," Aimee Mann's first solo album in five years.
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Periodically, the somber and somewhat decorous surface of Matar's prose is ripped open by a brutal acknowledgment of anger and unappeased longing.
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Typically, it begins as a dignified process, with a White House ceremony and a series of decorous photo opportunities in Senate offices.
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Ms. Chien played the Nocturne No. 2 with singing tone, but could not hide the lack of depth underneath its decorous lyricism.
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The first day of the confirmation process for the Supreme Court, normally a contentious but decorous affair, verged on pandemonium on Tuesday.
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Because even though that Reform service — performative, decorous (a cello!), incorporating English — did nothing for me, it had also once seemed ridiculous.
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Spufford's prose is always smooth, varying from decorous British formality (he was a professional book reviewer) to more casual conference-speaker diction.
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The only other known portrait of her, by George Richmond, also on loan from the National Portrait Gallery, is a polite, decorous effort.
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Does it matter so much that for all their skill — set off by Mr. Kent's exquisitely decorous Broadway staging — there's no there there?
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Instead, the ceremony confined most of its acknowledgment of TIme's Up to a single montage that amounted to a decorous, polite missed opportunity.
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These were and are highly assertive men, and aggressive when circumstances warranted, but who were also decorous and honorable; in a word, gentlemen.
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The profane, chaotic shenanigans that concluded this season of "Veep" look as decorous as drawing-room comedy next to the actual American presidential campaign.
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Even with a seated, decorous audience, music can summon a certain quality of heightened collective awareness that I've only experienced at a live performance.
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The grandeur was immediately evident, from the Art Deco curios to the classy black and white tiled floors, all illuminated by decorous period lamps.
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"I wanted to have a bit of fun with it, and not be quite as decorous as when adapting a full novel," Davies said.
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This compelling portrait of Jane Carlyle, the wife of the essayist Thomas Carlyle, illuminates the outwardly decorous but often inwardly tempestuous lives of Victorian women.
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Democrats on the typically staid, decorous committee immediately interrupted Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Iowa Republican who leads the panel, as he opened the proceedings.
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"Silence" is as visually striking as you might expect, but also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood.
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There are pit stops for opium cigarettes and bourbon cocktails, decorous conversations at diplomatic parties, steamy bedroom adventures, and visits to morgues, prisons and temples.
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Virgil's decorous Latin gets translated into a language which calls for eloquent Latinate polysyllables: the Sibyl flings the guard-dog Cerberus "a dumpling of soporific honey".
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Sometimes this involves tense, decorous exchanges with the proprietor's grandson (Humberto Carrão), a young man with a slick, ingratiating manner and a North American business degree.
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Sensitive, decorous and buffed by Eun-ah Lee's warm photography, "Front Cover" still strains to surmount its thin narrative and unfortunate dips into clichéd cultural comedy.
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But sheep lack the gravitas of cattle, and "today, the cows carry out a similar function in a rather more decorous manner," the same history concludes.
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I think I felt most gratification from figuring out DECIMATE/DECORATE and DECOROUS/DEXTROUS, and the crossing of CONCLAVE/CONCEIVE with CHAPLAIN/COMPLAIN was pretty amusing.
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The Rondo II in E (Book Four) is another gem, a pensive, quizzical piece with a flowing right-hand line that is wistfully yet slyly decorous.
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Yet Mr. Gurney adored the theater with a passion that spilled over the edges of even his most decorous comedies, and he feared for its survival.
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And from the present, she used blunt language and the shallow, openly artificial sounds of hip-hop percussion, spattering them against the decorous comforts of nostalgia.
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" A more decorous tableau was on the cover of this issue: "stalwart Canadian Highlanders who visited New York City to stimulate recruiting for the British Army.
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By comparison, most of Adams's life had a fairly decorous surface ("Never a harsh word") whose fraught subtext needs teasing out by a subtle fiction artist.
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Trump has scoffed at the notion that he would make some kind of general election pivot and begin behaving like the decorous GOP nominee of elections past.
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Mr. Bush, who has often expressed disbelief at Mr. Trump's behavior, conjured the unlikely prospect of his decorous father, the former president, behaving in such a fashion.
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"I think they ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots," grumbled Hatch, the Senate's president pro tempore and normally one of the chamber's most decorous members.
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The following day, we're in the decorous salons of the Mona Bismarck American Center, an exhibition space in Paris, which Nike has taken over for the day.
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But it's all weak tea, with the occasional decorous tilt toward politics (of the Irish-Republican kind) and scandal (of the butler-on-the-down-low kind).
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He haunted flea markets to buy up stalls' worth of old jewelry, junk and treasure alike, and remade it into assemblages that were more Dada than decorous.
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Yes, there are teacups, silverware, jewelry and other decorous objects (not to mention a mannequin wearing one of Madison's elegant gowns and a beyond-"pussy-hat" headdress).
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They had dining rooms that mimicked the ostentatious transoceanic cruise ships of the time, built for decorous dining, and large family-friendly patios that overlooked the water.
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Or Brett Kavanaugh -- a nominee for Supreme court, remember -- shouting at his questioners in the decorous chamber of the Senate office building during his testimony, and threatening Democrats?
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If not, it is concealed by a standardized vocabulary of decorous, side-saddle body positions or by fluttering drapery that adheres by a strange magnetism to the pudenda.
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Yet in November four out of five of these decorous, Bible-loving Christians voted for an adulterous reality-television star who has said he has never sought divine forgiveness.
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The F-word word in question, which government lawyer Malcolm Stewart described as "the paradigmatic profane word in our culture," was not uttered openly in the famously decorous courtroom.
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Typical of the more restrained and decorous Senate, Mr. Murphy's speeches last week were derided by Republicans as a pointless "talkathon," but there were no confrontations and no shouting.
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Fresh from on high, she lands not in a stutter or a rush but with one foot at a decorous angle and the other taking a gently purposeful stride.
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After so many years and decades of decorous but unfulfilled soccer — with teams that included world-class stars like Eusébio and Luís Figo — this was a Portugal of pragmatism.
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Harman's Brontë is just as shy as Gaskell's, just as lonely and frequently as unhappy, but there is nothing resigned or sweetly decorous, nothing Helen Burns-ish, about her.
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It is strange, in an age of female sound and fury, this enduring fixation on a near-silent woman who put forth the decorous veneer of an aristocratic hostess.
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Under the polished direction of Jonathan Bank, and in the hands of a fine team of designers, its arguments remain provocative, while its structure feels familiar, its tone decorous.
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Into a decorous world of silks and parasols it introduced rough women, plump in their homespun skirts, rumps in the air, grubbing for ears of grain dropped after the harvest.
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Asked about Biden's comment that he was the "most progressive" Democrat in the race, Sanders made a decorous nod toward his 2016 strategy, before attacking the former vice president's record.
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The word collides head-on with the stereotype of hooked rugs as a decorous medium — a contradiction that speaks with powerful concision to the changing cultural norms of the 1960s.
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Her character is also the only one to understand how absurd the situation is and to grasp the raw currents of power and lust that surge under the decorous surface.
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"'Silence' is as visually striking as you might expect, but also overly tidy, clean and decorous, despite its tortured flesh, its mud and its blood," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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CreditCreditJesse Dittmar for The New York Times The last time Hugh Jackman played Wolverine, the comic-book superhero he has portrayed onscreen for 17 years, was not an especially decorous occasion.
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Following decades in which the literary and art worlds have maintained a decorous distance, poetry is bridging the divide, and readings have become a familiar part of many art fairs and biennials.
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At the start of the 20th century such decorous tactics were the preference of feminists around the world, from America's Susan B. Anthony to France's Jeanne Schmahl and New Zealand's Kate Sheppard.
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Even less decorous has been Kenney's response to Jeff Brown, a social entrepreneur who has brought fresh foods into food deserts across Philadelphia and who was once lauded directly by President Obama.
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As Europe devolved into barbarism in the early years of the First World War, Debussy adopted a decorous, formally controlled style that looked back to the aristocratic poise of the French Baroque.
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Mr. Ives's lyric and comic invention never falters as he blends, in capering, cascading verse, both the cultivated language and decorous rhythms of classical comedy and cheeky, up-to-the-minute slang.
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Mr. Sellars, who has directed Mr. Costanzo in works that included Purcell and Ligeti, said this entrepreneurial mania is a throwback to a period we think of now as decorous and staid.
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But Ms. Menin, who has been the director of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, sounded lawyerly in a 45-minute interview; she came across as measured, decorous, meticulous and assiduous.
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Yes, Ryan is decorous and polite where Trump is confrontational and uncouth, but the say-anything brand of politics that so outrages Trump's critics is no less present in Ryan's recent history.
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It was by turns decorous and processional, while at times interrupted by interjections of stereo-traveling static or a bass tone that had escaped a dance club: juxtapositions that didn't quite make sense.
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Today, designers are innovating the decorous dress concept with their own versions of prim suiting — a move that can be seen as both a nod to the past and a reflection of our times.
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Oddly, the museum's director, Tristram Hunt, attributes the boosted figures to the institution's sleek new minimalist entrance on Exhibition Road, which he considers to be much less intimidating than its decorous entrance on Cromwell Road.
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How useful this was to the project of building a mature political party with governing potential was a matter of opinion, but López believed that the movement would get nowhere by relying on decorous party mechanics.
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His approach is worshipful, decorous and therefore strikingly incongruous with the layered, ambivalent genius that his film pays tribute to — a novelist who has made a point to excavate the darker recesses of a woman's experience.
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But in a time of spreading resentments and rage, when truth is increasingly the target of assault and dialogue is often viewed as betrayal, moderation isn't simply a decorous democratic quality; it becomes an essential democratic virtue.
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In the self-portrait, smartly dressed in a waistcoat and cuff links, he stares out at you with a languid composure that, after a while, in its decorous way, begins to take on a hint of the confrontational.
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At a CNN forum on Wednesday night, he contrasted himself pointedly and consistently with Mr. Sanders — never a given for Mr. Biden, a decorous senator at heart who sometimes struggles to press a sustained case against his opponents.
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I didn't believe in the polite Christian woman who lets Star and Jake into her decorous home, or in the creepy white-hatted gentlemen who pour shots of mezcal for Star and dare her to swallow the worm.
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And Bulgaria is not interested in adding to its integration troubles, says Mr Simeonov, when it has enough difficulties with its own "gypsy refugees" (the language is decorous; in 2014 Mr Simeonov dismissed Bulgaria's Roma as "arrogant, ferocious anthropoids").
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On a seaside vacation in southern Italy, she becomes the obsessed observer of a family whose behavior brings back unwanted memories of the unrefined Neapolitan milieu in which she grew up and from which she escaped to decorous Florence.
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But there is nothing — at least to Western eyes — shocking about the decorous pas de deux for Nureyev and Bruhn (a nicely moody Denis Savin), which intimates little more than tender friendship; or about the bare-chested Avedon photographs.
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The exhibition was organised as a "symphony of pure form" and focused solely on the decorous beauty of Islamic art; a New York Times correspondent of the time said it was "like stepping into a recreation of the Arabian nights".
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By its very existence, their effort to bridge the "divides that exist in Washington, DC, today" doubles down on the conviction that, for all the upheaval in American culture and politics, voters are simply thirsting for a more decorous status quo.
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Those questions about the future are playing out in the beginnings of an intense but decorous (that is, Timesian) campaign to replace Executive Editor Dean Baquet, whose retirement, per Times tradition, is due before his 66th birthday, in September 2022.
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The film is a comic blend of highbrow and lowbrow culture, meant to seem surreal because the decorous formality of a 19th-century comedy of manners seems so at odds with the joyously vulgar, Tarantino-friendly bloodbaths of a cheap slasher movie.
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That is because, while he may have represented a jarring change to a decorous political culture — no modern major party nominee had ever said the things he said — he reflected a coarser but authentic popular culture that many people have grown used to.
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She felt torn, in that class, between the imperative to teach the kind of decorous speech that would be helpful in a job interview and the desire to hear the authentic voices of her young black and brown students, profanities and all.
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We heard the touching stories of bravery and patriotism; we heard Trump boast of his successes -- keeping the bragging to a more decorous level than his usual -- and make some calls for national unity, not usually heard from the current White House.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Given that so much of Monty Python's humor was predicated on testing and twisting codes of civility and decorum, it's surprising their Flying Circus didn't alight more frequently in that most stuffily decorous setting, the art museum.
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The remaining contemporary experiments were diminishments, including Battery Dance Company's "The Durga Project," a collaboration with the Indian dancer Unnath H. R. It was merely decorous, sometimes ingenious in posing, but hardly intense enough for Durga, the goddess of creation and the destruction of evil.
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While "The Last Man on Earth" may take longer to hit its stride than "It's Great to Be Alive," once it vaults from the present to the future post-masculitis world of 1950, it is less decorous and more suggestive of changing social norms.
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There are a few dramatic incidents, including outbreaks of emotional and physical violence, but the real action in the film is interior, and Mr. Brizé's greatest skill is his ability to imply the deep and complicated emotions beneath the placid, decorous surface of Jeanne.
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The women of the royal House of Windsor are expected not only to provide an "heir and a spare" but to show unimpeachable morals and irreproachable behavior, to be decorative as well as decorous, and to do good works, putting their altruism on public display.
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There remains something mildly and even pleasurably heretical about the way the Boxcar Children locate the outer limits of amusement in decorous productivity—the way that, for them, there's no better use of total independence than perfectly mimicking the most respectable behaviors of adults.
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The talks involving the Catholic Church and South African mediators are intended to devise some form of transition that would have the appearance of constitutional legitimacy while providing a decorous departure for a leader whose role in the pre-independence liberation struggle is central to the national narrative.
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As people, we all run into your odd crank every now and again, but I have seen a fat person turn the most decorous individual into an eye-rolling, tongue-clicking social contract breaker simply by daring to try to occupy the assigned seat on her plane ticket.
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For all of the tantrums and feuds and demagoguery and fury, it still shocks to see a President conducting himself this way, against the backdrop of the golden curtains of the East Room, scene of some of the most solemn, and decorous occasions in the history of the White House.
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As Harry and Meghan wed, we marveled at the touching and decorous show of genuine love, of African-American traditions blending into the stodgiest of British ones -- a biracial American divorcee marrying a real-life prince; a promise that progress does happen and the world does change for the better.
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This copious but decorous display contains examples from years of the artists' own socio-political artworks, mixed with alternating audio tracks, disparate ethnic historic objects (such as a curious opium pipe made from an expended artillery shell), African magical artifacts, and a few pieces by non-European contemporary artists to boot.
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Meanwhile, the Bernie Sanders candidacy lost, and despite its whiff of populism, it was positively decorous in its conduct, and its positions would have been centrist anywhere but here — single-payer health care is, after all, the worldwide standard, and Glass-Steagall was the law of the land for 66 years.
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The high-handed mother-daughter team had regularized the deliberately jagged rhyme scheme, omitted terms they found offensive (including "water closet"), and even changed the title from "Roosters"—Bishop's derogatory term for men who propagate war—to "The Cock," a classical usage in which the decorous ladies saw no possible misreadings.
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In a largely decorous but occasionally testy confrontation over four hours, the state trial attorney David E. Nachman presented Mr. Greenberg with dozens of reports, memos, calender items and depositions in three-ring binders about escalating losses in the auto warranty insurance program begun by Mr. Greenberg's son Evan, then an A.I.G. executive.
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Dispatches on the odd behaviors of the nonhuman animals with which we share the planet have been some of our most popular with readers, with the "decorous" cows of Cambridge, England, and the wild and crazy oysters of Croatia two personal favorites (though those ostensibly despondent dogs drew a much larger, if more uneasy, audience).
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But even as the two parties seem to be pulling farther apart from one another, it was what they had in common this primary season that illustrates how much politics is being transformed: Republicans and Democrats in 2018 paid little heed to the decorous rules and precedents that have long governed how they choose candidates.
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The colors are as proudly wrong as ever — dull putty, hot yellow, pale lavender, the sort of pink best left for a highlighter — yet the compositions feel uncommonly decorous and aboveboard; one work here, a mishmash of green, red and orange stains, nearly makes you think the painter has gone for Ab Ex romanticism.
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The twists keep squirming into view: just as you're dealing with the fact that the triplets were separated as infants and assigned by a decorous Jewish adoption agency to three families, each of which knew nothing of the others, you bump into the creepy scientific project behind the entire plan—"like Nazi shit," in Bobby's crisp appraisal.
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President Donald Trump opened his State of the Union speech touting strong economic conditions for black Americans and their decorous record serving their country — before later announcing in the same speech that he would award a racist radio talk show host the Presidential Medal of Freedom and concluding on a very whitewashed version of US history.
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These distortions along with the multiple perspectives fold yet another disquieting possibility into the work, the steady accumulation of which speaks to me of Greenwold's defiance: he refuses to make decorous works or to be coy about the indecorous when that, of course, is what the art world would prefer to see, however much they pay lip service to freedom of expression and artistic integrity.
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"Despite constant counsel from GOP advisors and insiders to adopt a more decorous public persona, Trump continues to lash out at critics, to insist complex problems can be solved with little effort and to depict an America that's been 'ripped off by every single country in the world,' as he said in this week's debate," they said, referencing Monday's contest at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. "Terrible leaders can knock nations off course," the editors added.
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And, of course, he says this as a man whose political project is increasingly about reducing the power of the ballot box as much as possible—a man who breaks any and all decorous governing traditions in his path in order to confirm judges who strike down voting rights laws, and who, during government shutdowns that he has the power to end, sits down to write op-eds bemoaning attempts to make Election Day a holiday.
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I never thought I would see the day when two normally decorous politicians as Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineWarren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup Overnight Defense: Dems talk Afghanistan, nukes at Detroit debate | Senate panel advances Hyten nomination | Iranian foreign minister hit with sanctions | Senate confirms UN ambassador MORE and Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceFEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding Log Cabin Republicans endorse Trump MORE would climb down into the mosh pit and give us a mud-slinging display such as we saw at Tuesday night's VP debate.
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