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It's her keeping up of decorous appearances that breaks your heart.
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May the catafalque now in use for pontifical funeral rites be substituted by a humble and decorous contrivance.
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She would be pleasant to the guards if she thought they were behaving in an acceptable and decorous manner, recalled another of the guards in his memoirs.
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The specific epithet "decorosa", though intended for elegant or handsome, actually means decent, respectable, modest, or decorous.
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It was not until the bedroom pas de deux that this decorous couple truly relaxed.
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Here, according to his first biographer, who preserves some details omitted from more decorous records, the brothers became known as the greatest boozers in the north from their convivial prowess.
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This faade, that most readily seen from the town, presents a decorous and impassive public face with one of the most architecturally severe elevations of the palace ("see illustration right").
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The stylish but cozy interior, the informal decorous intimacy of people's manners, the curious and delightful details everywhere one turns one's eye, the luxury of sipping chocolate: all are galante.
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Even crime, it seems, had a more decorous quality in those days.
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Even in a comparatively decorous sport like tennis, that kind of alpha personality pays dividends.
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