decorously in a sentence
Examples
- One recent morning, as he conferred with building supervisors on the library roof, students dressed in pristine white decorously played cricket in a park in front.
- In a bit of subversive bemusement over 17th-century singing habits, Poppea's maid Arnalta becomes a tenor, played decorously in drag by Cesar Ulloa.
- As a young substitute physics teacher, he fell in love with the prettiest girl in the class but decorously waited until after she graduated before asking her out.
- Even Kozinn, the New York clothier, has, as a lure, a giant yellow tape measure placed decorously in the window of his Park Avenue store.
- The audience, mostly a generation older than the musicians, listened intently, and when the dance tunes revved up, feet started to tap, decorously but firmly.
- This time Winslet's torso was decorously sheathed, and on DiCaprio's sketch pad there was a ruffled bodice where seconds before a naked breast had been.
- The man this city's top crime fighters call a mafia chieftain and a cold-blooded killer was decorously receiving supplicants at his tenement headquarters here one recent afternoon.
- The Blair government made the decision two years ago to refrain from jumping into the euro pool till Britain's economic cycle coincided more decorously with mainland Europe's.
- Cutting his usual fine figure, Washington also behaves decorously in an amiable role not designed to make dramatic waves in a " sweetly uplifting film " ( Maslin ).
- As directed decorously by Gerard Corbiau, this film betrays little of the bizarreness implied by Farinelli's situation, reducing his suffering to nothing more than a form of decadent cachet.