These were people who expected a certain decorum and they wanted everything just so.

But always before when I was discussing a novel in progress, my listeners observed a certain decorum.

You were supposed to be improvising but only within strict confines, with a certain decorum.

The Passion, dealing with Jesus' last hours and death, must preserve a certain decorum.

Until the Bush team came to power, foreign relations were conducted with a certain gentlemanly decorum.

We believe in maintaining a certain decorum, keeping a tight rein on our behavior.

There is a certain decorum in the body-piercing business.

A certain decorum must be observed for a man in my position, certainly you understand.

"We have a certain decorum here in the South, so I just said thank you and turned away," she explains.

IT used to be that viewing works of art was an experience marked by a certain decorum.