However deadly the deed, the language is always decorous and impeccably mannered. His manners were grave and decorous, but free from pedantry. Another understanding is that taarof is a way of managing social relations with decorous manners. She becomes famous for music and other decorous entertainments. Cherniak describes his love poems as tending to be "relatively formal, decorous, and impersonal". The hotel was described as "modern Colonial", with an air of "decorous opulence". Uttu matures and becomes "shapely and decorous". Rivero describes Behn's novella as "the romance of decorous, upper class sentiments". The interior of the mansion is considerably decorous. In contrast with the plain exterior, the grand and decorous interior uses much more colour. Janet Maslin of "The New York Times" called it "a scenic, decorous, studiedly innocent throwback". The congregation should also be decorous, and in particular should not constantly shout "Amen!".