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Another dance, the parado, resembles a courtly minuet: it is performed in Valldemossa in the square beside the monastery.
Plena music is said to have its roots in Spanish colonial courtly behavior, though the instruments used are also Taíno and African.
It is obvious that we have admitted many, some of which we wanted, and therefore our language is the richer for them, as it would be by importation of bullion: other are rather ornamental than necessary; yet by their admission, the language is become more courtly, and our thoughts are better dressed.
233)--"Courtly":
The director, Antoine Fuqua, a veteran of Coolio music videos, does a passable slow-motion Woo imitation (Woo is one of the executive producers), but the plot and dialogue are Brand X, and Chow--by turns courtly, worried, and earnest--has nothing of the rock 'n' roll bad boy that put him on the map.
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