courtliness

While “Concerto” seemed underrehearsed and too big a ballet for the stage — perhaps the performers were too new to this stage — there was still a jaunty courtliness as dancers in vibrant yellow swarmed from one side of the stage to another.

His defenders, including some female faculty members, attributed his actions — which they described as compliments, kisses on the cheek and pats on the shoulder — to what they called misplaced European courtliness.

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

He refused to milk the melancholy of the sprawling 25th, maintaining an elegant restraint that coursed into the virtuosic combination of courtliness and dense, smoky chromatic fireworks in the late variations.

In his testimony, Depp copped to some bad stuff, but this too was a play for sympathy, of a piece with the charm and courtliness he was at pains to display.