seemliness

Lady Falkender responded: “There has been too much suffering of one kind or another for ‘seemliness’ or ‘unseemliness’ to enter into it any more.”

Let no one have the temerity to accuse the network of seemliness again – and let us hope the famous Christmas card is just as “in production”, too.

But with modern notions of seemliness, these pieces were discreetly removed from exhibition catalogues.

He was both exploitative of and deferential to them, telling their stories without regard for seemliness and without filtering out personal details – but in doing so, he achieved a collective dignity for all the afflicted.

The gross excessiveness of it all, vacuuming up six-figure checks well past the point of rational need or political seemliness.