courtliness Betydning & definition

Eksempler på courtliness

• Furthermore, musical dialogues participated in the discourse of civility at the very heart of contemporary concepts of courtliness.

• Even his courtliness toward his wife cannot balance out his condescension toward everyone else.

• There was, however, a growing tendency to treat behaviour as a kind of bodily rhetoric, through which individuals expressed inner psychological states associated with ideals of gentlemanliness or courtliness.

• He was renowned for his bravery, generosity, courtliness, and learning.

• Thus, she contrasts "cortesia" (courtliness) with "villania" (villainy), terms borrowed from the setting of aristocratic court.

• In his brilliant strokeplay there was a certain courtliness.

• Without knights no chivalry, without court no courtliness, without salon no charm, without material support no deference will last indefinitely, not even as make-believe.

• But his combination of the crude and the pleasant, of bluntness and courtliness, casts an aura that puts off people used to more conventional, or polite, politicians.