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“It’s not considered comme il faut,” he told The Washington Post in 1981.

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It was not quite comme il faut that the Barons should presume to speak to the boy.

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The French duo are certainly more meticulous than Moroder ever was, but the nine-minute epic is a comme il faut tribute to a living legend, and a gracious thank you to their musical progenitor.

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He never met her but kept in touch by phone for long stretches from 1977 to 2003, out of a genteel sense of comme il faut, according to his deposition.

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Midas" of Lily, quoted by Charles Knight in his "London," are found collected several of these distinctive marks of the courtier comme il faut: "How will you be trimmed, sir?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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