courtliness
Example Sentences
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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.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
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
He took his seat, moving with an odd combination of graceful courtliness and stiff, affronted dignity.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
