Examples of decorum

• The implications of decorum have varied significantly over time as has the kind of action it has been used to justify.

• The second phase, the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, sees decorum isolated and codified.

• Maintaining regal decorum, she is nearly always in control of her emotions - and of her voice.

• From a historical point of view, a recognition of decorum thus reinvests buildings with their appropriate social and intellectual context.

• The governing idea in most seventeenth-century discussions of preaching styles is rhetorical decorum.

• Rhetorical decorum, however, tolerates what is unauthorised, unprecedented, and unnatural for the sake of effective communication.

• First, there is the problem of rules and appropriateness: decorum is outside art.

• What is more, he was reported to have subverted school decorum by mocking his fellow teachers and making light of the school's activities.