She says she tried for days to spar with the boxers so she could feel the impact of a punch, but she was defeated by their courtliness.
42.
The author differs from other early Tristan-poets in pointing up the courtliness of his hero, yet at the same time emphasises his cruelty towards Ysolt.
43.
Because what we see is a semiperformance by modern young people, the shades and ambiguities of characters playing roles are ironed out and the corsets of courtliness untied.
44.
The upper class or nobility, represented chiefly by the Knight and his Squire, was in Chaucer's time steeped in a culture of chivalry and courtliness.
45.
But candidates were not allowed to rebut one another or ask one another questions, so the tone of the discourse was tame, almost to the point of courtliness.
46.
With a flourish that blends equal parts of courtliness and comedy, he whips out a dozen pictures that fly out like like a credit-card junkie's billfold.
47.
Two elderly policemen approach Elsa, and with an attitude of apologetic courtliness put her in handcuffs and escort her to a trolley that carries her to a crowded railroad station.
48.
But his combination of the crude and the pleasant, of bluntness and courtliness, casts an aura that puts off people used to more conventional, or polite, politicians.
49.
To Bourne, his courtliness places him squarely in middle America, or perhaps a middle America of another era, although Parks himself is not particularly sentimental about his Kansas roots.
50.
With his aloof, Teutonic manner, Bloch seemed like a villain from a James Bond movie : His European courtliness, and emotional rigidity, riled his accusers like a snide rebuke.
