courtly

Next to pictures showing her and Bardella walking, holding hands, and clambering over rocks, Paris-Match waxes lyrical about a couple "reinventing courtly love – 21st Century-style".

From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026

The limpid four-movement ballet is both courtly and casual, with its intricately evolving choreographic patterns gently beguiling, as if seen in a crystalline hall of mirrors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026

The life-size portrait he produced is a whiz-bang spectacle of courtly pomp and dynastic circumstance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024

And he is seen as "the courtly gentleman of the Marble Palace," as Time Magazine described him.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2024

Tom and Dessie, fingertips touching, were doing a courtly heel-and- toe while he sang Doodle-doodle-doo and Dessie sang Deedle-deedle- dee, and then they embraced again.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

In some ways, Gucci Mane is a holdover from this older, meaner era, which is one reason that a younger, courtlier peer like Drake is so eager to get his blessing.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

Mr. Kuhn favors a courtlier style, crisp and precise.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2016

His competitive instincts could overwhelm his gentler, courtlier ones.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2016

In comportment and style, Byrd often seemed a Senate throwback to a courtlier 19th century.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2010

And a courtlier manner no prince ever had Than the little old man that she speaks of as "dad."

From Just Folks by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

But Mr. Lovano gave it his courtliest treatment, caressing the wistful melody with a whispery, feathery grace.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

Gottfried von Cramm, who put Budge out in the semi-finals that year, greeted the Queen with the courtliest bow of the dav.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is the most reticent of directors -- where the book ogles, the film discreetly observes -- and, here, the courtliest of stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Well, we are, Polly, my child,” said old Mr.134 King, getting out to help her with his courtliest air.

From Five Little Peppers at School by Hermann Heyer

The letter beside her was from Governor Clinton, written in courtliest words, telling her of the grave in New York prepared for him beneath the cenotaph set up by Congress many years before.

From Fort Amity by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch