Word: decorums
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Even if it were run with the decorum of a D.A.R. meeting, the sheer logistics of bringing it all together are incredibly elaborate. Miami Beach, a normally garish but placid corridor of resorts and retirement (the median age of permanent residents is 65), is looking forward to the twin bill with a booster's pride and a bit of trepidation...
...players didn't know whether or not to be happy with their performance until the news of Dartmouth's split with Brown came in an hour later. After disturbing the decorum of Yale's Hall of Graduates dining room, the team boarded the bus for Princeton to play its fifth game in four days...
Paths tested Kubrick's seriousness and showed off his developing cinematic abilities. Swirling tracking-shots caught military decorum and ballroom grace, and Kubrick's own hand-held fieldwork surpasses, in its sense of messy, forced kineticism, anything in All Quiet On the Western Front...
...times, however, Chou's Mandarin sense of decorum would assert itself. During cocktails at Emerson's house one evening, some of the Americans began to loosen up, and the call went out for more liquor to replenish Emerson's dwindling stock...
...club are bankrupt. They support just this sort of poor decision. They include a continuing refusal to act on student evaluations of faculty performance, a lack of commitment to teaching ability and professional currency as the primary criteria for hiring faculty, and a defensive preoccupation with style and decorum...