courtliness

1 All this is performed with a melancholy courtliness: “Sorry, guys, but this is what I do.”

2 The effect is both casual and courtly: Her women lounge on couches and read magazines.

3 his courtly manners made him a favorite escort of widowed socialites

4 The dancers wear courtly Baroque attire (by Sam Ratelle).

5 As Governor-General of the Islands, his justice, firmness, and courtliness of manner combined to produce an administration in keeping with the dignity of his great office.

6 Each thinks that she has touched the lowest step of misery if she lack the regard of lovers; and she measures her glory of nobility and courtliness by the ampler numbers of such suitors.”

7 “I was taken aback,” he said, with an air of wounded courtliness.

8 Gainsborough's temper was very hasty, quite opposed to the patient courtliness of Reynolds.

9 The overture to Rimsky-Korsakov’s “The Tsar’s Bride” begins with unassuming courtliness and swiftly ramps up to seething passion.

10 A male voice in the cast parried with a hint of old-world courtliness: “Yet ’twas well sung, my friend!”

11 Anthony advanced with his man-of-the-world courtliness, and pressed her outstretched hand.

12 What remains is a cleareyed frontier courtliness, though not without its edge.

13 Various theories have been adduced for this gesture: genuine amity, a vestige of courtliness, too much lunch, or the possibility that the President is afraid of stairs.

14 But in that deference was a courtliness that was beautifully Lincoln's own.

15 His Oxbridge courtliness had come to seem, rather than dignified, a bit pompous.

16 On the flip side of his rough-and-readiness and the now fading flashes of temper was an exaggerated politeness, almost a courtliness, for which Cabrera was renowned during his caddie days in Cordoba.

17 With his best courtliness of manner, he bowed her into his private office.

18 Colleagues said he retained his Old World courtliness and was almost frantically meticulous in his reporting and research — and never seemed to throw anything away.

19 As he said with mock courtliness, “You don’t invite an editor without offering sweets.”

20 In an industry filled with raw ambition and bombast, Fitzgerald developed a Hollywood reputation for courtliness mixed with consummate professionalism.

1 殷勤

polite respectful courteous attentive hospitable affable courtly debonair assiduous officious complaisant respectfully mannerly attention rush hospitality affability assiduity complaisance

2 礼让

comity

3 周到

careful delicate courteous attentive courtly circumspect delicacy circumspection

4 谦虚

humble modest unassuming unobtrusive unboastful modestly modesty self-deprecation

5 高雅

fine elegant sophisticated tasty modest chic classy posh tasteful dainty seraphic upscale spirituel couth spirituelle refinedly concinnity class grace elegance attic decency sophisticate