seemliness

Boys seemed about to explode from the pressure of their own seemliness.

But there is such a thing as seemliness, decorum, respect for high office once held.

The House, with a bow to seemliness, will delay an impeachment decision for a bit.

That must have amused Harriet, who never gave a fig for seemliness.

His manner, as ever, was invested with suburban seemliness.

She had violated the rules of invisibility and seemliness.

Going to school was only for seemliness anyhow.

Mere seemliness, if nothing else, called for it.

It is primarily the male who scoffs at the notion that he might score points for seemliness.

There are issues of seemliness involved here.

Some have started to question the seemliness of the prosecutorial jostling.

Painfully, she sorted her limbs into seemliness and sat up, her back against the Tree.

But all seemliness aside, the current rate of Amazonian deforestation is - incredibly - more than 9,000 square miles a year.

What is lost in seemliness is gained in strength.

Order and seemliness were drastically imposed.

Yet whenever they happened to meet his own eyes they hurriedly withdrew again, and not wholly for the sake of seemliness either.

Renegades at heart, they have made it their mission to invert, and subvert, prevailing standards of seemliness.

"But there was this: the blow visited on Bladudd by the king had blighted his body so that he lost all beauty and seemliness.

"For seemliness as well as shared help, I invited Biserka to come stay here meanwhile.

She forgot the un seemliness of her attire until the milkman turned his head to stare at her and kept on staring.

Newt's mistake - an error in seemliness, not an ethical transgression - was failing to disclose the names of contributors, which he belatedly rectified.

"The person who is appropriately behaved behaves like a lady, and that means honorable behavior, responsibility to your community, cleanliness and seemliness of conduct.

"I put the gag in his mouth," continued Don Lewis, "and also tied his wrists and ankles from some old seemliness.

"Well, Nikeratos, in spite of all your varied skills, I would rather hear from you always that dignity and seemliness with which you spoke the Eulogy.

Molly Grue put the magician's cloak around her shoulders again, not for modesty or seemliness, but out of a strange pity, as though to keep her from seeing herself.