What's the difference between comportment and decorum?

Comportment


Definition:

  • (n.) Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Teacher-Student Relations emerged as the most important aspect of teacher comportment, followed by knowledge associated with Human Behavior, Substances, User Recognition and Referral, Prevention Curricula, and Legal Issues.
  • (3) The indication herewith is more founded on a possible sympathetic origin of the troubles as on the comportment psycho-affective of the patient.
  • (4) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
  • (5) In response to such pressures a change of comportment takes place which puzzles the people closest to the stricken.
  • (6) This parameter, despite its limited significance can serve as a working index characterising the thermoregulatory system in different groups of experimental animals of the same species providing that the actual conditions of the experiment are comporting.
  • (7) In the wake of these successes, some on the right are offering the left advice about how to comport themselves at these events – but do we want it?
  • (8) They added that Lockett’s fate “gruesomely underscores the importance of transparency, judicial oversight, and the crucial importance of keeping some doors open to death-sentenced inmates to assert their right to be executed in a manner that comports with the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment”.
  • (9) Two hypotheses can account for these variations: a smaller or greater adaptation of the S. mansoni stock to the rat; a change in the comportment of rats which would thus be more or exposed to reinfestations.
  • (10) The highest dosis of endotoxine have comported a blok in the esterification of cholesterol.
  • (11) The goal of this study was the observations of the comportment of 5 groups of asthmatic children, followed either with weekly ambulatory control of functional respiratory capacity or with daily control of PEF at home by Asses Peak Flow.
  • (12) The avoiding phenomena observed are analyzed as elementary motor perturbations rather than a disturbance of motor comportment.
  • (13) N. Kosciusko-Morizet (@nk_m) Comportement abject et intolérable des supporters de #Chelsea dans le métro : #racisme et ségrégation.
  • (14) In most such cases, exculpation is based primarily on the specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction in which the act was committed (the lex loci delicti commissi).
  • (15) Clooney has a semi-cameo as the candidate himself, Governor Mike Morris, a role in which he comports himself with presidential smoothness, broken only by a dark confrontation at the end.
  • (16) Quandary- and rights-based procedural ethics address ethical problems and breakdown and overlook everyday ethical comportment.
  • (17) The 5 alpha-reductase activity was localised on the stromal comportment of the rat ovary.
  • (18) Comportment and most activities of daily living were preserved even when speech was unintelligible.
  • (19) The emotional state of the gravida shortly before childbirth has a predictive value for her comportment during parturition.
  • (20) The Note subsequently rejects the substituted judgment standard as a legal fiction, and endorses the best interest test which necessarily comports with the evidence, and properly accounts for the disabled person's incompetency.

Decorum


Definition:

  • (n.) Propriety of manner or conduct; grace arising from suitableness of speech and behavior to one's own character, or to the place and occasion; decency of conduct; seemliness; that which is seemly or suitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I know all the famous stories regarding this novel's battles against censorship, and certainly there are later chapters of the book that intentionally push the boundaries of social decorum, but nothing like that was in my first chapter of the adaptation" – as far as they have currently got with their ongoing project.
  • (2) He won’t look at you when you pull up beside him, honking about decorum and proper manners.
  • (3) It was through these now-remote valleys that ideas of art, decorum, dress, religion and court culture passed backwards and forwards, east to west and back again, mixing and melding to create the most unexpected conjuctions.
  • (4) It’s also good decorum to cover your parts with both hands on entering and leaving the water (note bottoms are generally considered less offensive) and not to saunter around once on land.
  • (5) Why is she wearing that crap?” asked one, revealing the level of abuse targeted at Watson for any hint of self-possession or decorum.
  • (6) If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, therefore, Madonna believes she deserved to be treated differently from other visiting foreigners, it is worth making her aware that Malawi has hosted many international stars, including Chuck Norris, Bono, David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature.
  • (7) Nonetheless, even though most of the pleasures in life were beyond their reach, these New England women took great pride in what little they had and put great stock in a particular dress, bonnet, or tea service that enabled them to maintain a sense of dignity and decorum in the face of great adversity.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In short Kenneth MacMillan was a working-class boy who went to the top of the elite world of ballet, roughing up its conventional decorum with works featuring tortured psyches, damaged sexualities and a string of outsiders and misfits.
  • (9) Some short texts which were added in later times to the "Works of Hippocrates" ("Physician", "Precepts", "Decorum") provide us with some information on a physician's daily life (see also H.M. Koelbing, The Hippocratic physician at his patient's bedside, in Practitioner 224, 1980, 551-554).
  • (10) From Hippocrates ("Prognostic") to the hellenistic period ("Decorum"), we note an important change as to the revelation of a bad prognosis: Hippocrates advocates the blunt information of the patient when there is no hope for him; but his follower in a later century takes into consideration the patient's psychology.
  • (11) The once scruffy youth became a stickler for sartorial decorum.
  • (12) But the students who directly protest the tightening of these screws are condemned for their lack of political decorum.
  • (13) Aidan Dunne, for example, reviewing the exhibition in Dublin in 2007, recognised how a single blonde model, "unmistakably" herself, in 1966 led Freud to push "the bounds of decorum in terms of mainstream depictions of the human body considered not as a generic type but as, to use his own term, a 'naked portrait'".
  • (14) I am not sure Sir Alan has got the hang of grim austerity and quiet decorum.
  • (15) He doesn't show us sex, but it's always there, under the nightclothes of decorum.
  • (16) While Brad Pitt may get knickers left in his pocket, there is more decorum around the royals.
  • (17) Which makes me wonder: if philosophy is to be more "gender friendly", do philosophers have first to act, well, if not in more "ladylike" fashion, then at least with greater decorum?
  • (18) Even in Jerusalem on market days when I went to that place before I was married there had always been a gravity, a sense of people doing business who meant business, or preparing themselves with due decorum for the Sabbath.
  • (19) formulation at pH 11 for 2 h increases its potency against S. decorum larvae, suggesting an effect of an extralarval alkaline hydrolysis on the B.t.i.
  • (20) Decorum, maturity and tactfully quiet understanding must be maintained.