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.
