courtliness
Example Sentences
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But none of this should promote the sentimental fantasy that courtliness still reigns.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2020
In an industry filled with raw ambition and bombast, Fitzgerald developed a Hollywood reputation for courtliness mixed with consummate professionalism.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2019
Cousineau is a puffed-up, safari-jacket-wearing guru, but he has an old-fashioned courtliness.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019
Forrest doesn’t talk much, or display much emotion — his range of feeling runs from mild concern to wry amusement — but he has a touch of poetry to him, and an old-fashioned courtliness.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018
George was a tall handsome boy, gentle and sweet, who had from the first a kind of courtliness.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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