All 6 Uses of
decorum
in
All the King's Men
- Willie's hand gave mine three decorous pump-handle motions, and he said, "Glad to meetcha, Mr. Burden," like something he had memorized, and then, I could have sworn, he gave me a wink.†
Chpt 1
- Willie lifted his two hands out of his lap where they had decorously lain during the previous conversation, and took the bottle between them.†
Chpt 1
- So I decorously withdrew my gaze from the pair, and resumed my admiration of the dying day on the other side of the hog lot and the elegiac landscape.†
Chpt 1
- Sadie would treat the Boss with an icy decorum, meeting him only and strictly in the course of business, standing quietly before him while he talked.
Chpt 8 *decorum = proper manners and conduct
- Then following the decorous crowd, I left the dead man under that green grass of the mortician's fancy which spared all tender sensibilities the sight of raw earth and proclaimed that nothing whatsoever had happened and veiled, as it were, all significance of life and death.†
Chpt 8
- I didn't see her as she sat in the rented limousine which moved at its decorous torturer's pace the near-hundred miles, lifting the miles slowly off the concrete slab, slowly and fastidiously as though you were peeling an endless strip of skin off the live flesh.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(decorum) manners and conduct considered to be proper and in good taste