| Wander the streets and markets alone, with an open mind, friendly face and polite gestures. |
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| I was polite, and I pleased my demanding grandmother, I never acted up, I wore dresses, and was the best girl anyone could hope for. |
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| When guests visit you, it is polite to welcome them with kind words and serve them what you have. |
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| They are all polite, well-behaved and well-motivated lads and their neighbours of all generations are proud of them. |
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| Whenever we go anywhere with them people remark on the fact that they are really polite and well-behaved. |
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| She's the one who will know when to be straight-up with her folks and when they can't deal with anything other than a polite fiction. |
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| These originally polite titles are now used as intimate forms of address between a couple. |
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| He was an exceptionally well-mannered and polite lad and a very talented cricketer. |
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| Just because a server is polite and brings you the correct order doesn't mean they deserve a tip. |
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| The woman, who was said to be smartly dressed, polite and well-spoken, told people she was collecting sponsorship for a marathon in York. |
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| This idea was unspeakable in polite society, but it probably played a part in Dole's defeat. |
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| She went shopping on weekends and was polite to adults and anyone who she thought sufficiently hero-worshiped her. |
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| The parents are talkative, polite and determined to put the past behind them. |
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| They all pay their money and are immediately blindfolded, whereupon they are asked to make polite conversation with the person next to them. |
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| Instead of being studious, attentive, and polite little nippers, they go gaga for gifts. |
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| Perhaps they enjoy hearing me sound all ratty and scratchy, trying to be polite in the name of friendship. |
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| You've got to be pretty lucky to get to the final, but I kept my head down and was polite to the other players so they didn't stitch me up. |
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| Later, the Principal of Abigail's school would bear witness to her studiousness, her good discipline, and to her gracious and polite manner. |
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| Mr. Roberts and his ilk may not listen to reason or polite discourse, but I'll bet they pay plenty of attention to the sound of falling ratings. |
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| What's the correct, polite thing to do when someone breaks wind in your presence? |
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| It is not polite to kibitz during other people's games, unless you have permission from both players. |
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| Despite my polite rebuff, Adam returned to my cell door a week later and eagerly divulged his deplorable obsession. |
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| He was charming and polite and very encouraging to those who would follow in his footsteps. |
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| Just for the record, I am generally a well behaved, polite person and like most people will avoid a fight at all costs. |
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| Everyone is exceptionally polite, and everyone seems to speak English, without exception very good English. |
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| When you live on the fringes of polite society, the rules shift, whereas we are not so bound to language. |
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| I was wondering whether it is considered polite or rude to speak in a different language with someone in front of others. |
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| Most said they knew him as a harmless, polite and friendly man who had become a familiar figure in the area. |
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| I get a polite but firm call from some PR person who invites me up for a day of reeducation. |
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| The crowd of polite listeners, sitting pretty with their drinks in their hands, soon started bobbing their heads in sync. |
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| The players are all very polite and the odd chat-up lines are always humorous. |
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| Brazil's broadcasting style is calm and laconic, overlaid with a sporadic bullying streak towards the polite Beecroft. |
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| My mind was always too addled to take in any detail or be in the least bit capable of having a polite chat with a lady. |
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| He looked up at the lady, she seemed polite and superior, but Jake still didn't seem to like her very much for some reason. |
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| But when she had gotten to know them, she realized they were very polite towards ladies, and could be very good friends. |
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| I'd never use this word in polite company, and can barely bring myself to allude to it, even very obliquely. |
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| But unlike face-to-face hemming and hawing, the Facebook rejection is polite but direct. |
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| We're far too polite to speculate how swimmers who felt the urge went about relieving themselves. |
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| I got the impression he didn't think much of the idea of remaking it, although he was trying to be polite about the whole thing. |
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| I had been yessirring and nossiring him the whole time, being as calm and polite as possible, but I kind of lost it at this point. |
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| That is a polite way of saying that the reparation and amends provisions have become a means for buying justice. |
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| Two decades on, Mesnel is a millionaire, albeit a very polite and amicable one, and without, it seems, a single element of ego. |
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| You could hand around evaluation forms, but many people are too polite to tell you what they really thought. |
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| Alicia's polite and cheerful demeanor amuses the man, and he begins to chuckle until the tender sparkle in her eye renders him silent. |
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| It would have been polite to at least acknowledge it rather than tossing it aside like a dirty tissue. |
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| Is it too much to ask if I just want someone normal, unperverted, and polite to talk to? |
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| He remains a charming, impeccably polite, good-natured and amazingly resilient man. |
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| Even if you think that someone is kind of weird, it is always polite to be nice to them. |
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| If someone wants to be polite and respectful to me, the best thing I can do is be the same back to them. |
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| She's respectful, polite and particularly helpful when it comes to clearing away the dishes. |
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| I have words to describe these people, good old Anglo-Saxon epithets in the main, and none of them polite. |
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| A few minutes later, the larger of the suspects answered a polite knock on the door. |
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| Something like a polite cocktail party is taking place in a chintzy antechamber to the London Hilton's Grand Ballroom. |
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| It is considered very polite to occasionally select a choice morsel for the person sitting beside you or to place it on his or her plate. |
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| The point of being polite or civil to another human being is not to demonstrate superiority, it is to demonstrate respect. |
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| I'll be polite and civil to him, and I honestly don't think he wants anything more than that. |
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| Be polite and keep your lip zipped and they'll usually let you out and tell you to disappear. |
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| I think it's only polite to make the effort in the local language even if everyone does seem to speak English. |
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| The city's Presbyterian propriety and Calvinist self-denial combined to outlaw libidinousness as an affront to polite society. |
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| Rod Eddington is too polite to admit it in public but he has come across the typical Pom's reaction to an Antipodean. |
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| He knew where the room was from earlier, but decided it was better to be polite and ask anyways. |
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| Looks of despair flashed across all of their faces, but to their credit they were too polite to outwardly groan. |
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| They also learn that sometimes it's polite to lie to spare the feelings of others. |
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| There was a round of polite applause as Theo stood and walked over to Isabel. |
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| They are burnt, diced or melted in acid in front of onlookers who react with polite applause. |
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| Strangely the crowd gave this the same polite applause as they had to the other points he had made. |
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| He was extremely polite to his opponents and often took up cudgels for them too. |
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| He could be quite cheeky and a bit cussed sometimes, but he was always polite to me and very appreciative of everything. |
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| It shouldn't be a confrontational approach but a polite request that something is not right. |
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| This was sent to David Garrick, an influential arbiter of polite literary taste in London. |
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| In shops and restaurants the Lithuanians are polite and some younger staff try out their English. |
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| So, I find myself very well rehearsed in the fine arts of etiquette, including table manners, polite conversation and flattery. |
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| I seem to remember the captain pointing out its rumness in a less polite way in the recent series too. |
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| She didn't bother wasting her breath on droning polite words to sound sophisticated. |
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| This is the polite version of the assertion that there is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not said it. |
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| He is a very nice person, very friendly and polite but today was not his day. |
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| She's too polite to tell him to shut up and go away, so we put up with him. |
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| It's certainly polite to ask, and you have my full permission, for whatever that's worth. |
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| Police officers are becoming more polite, attentive and competent, according to a new survey. |
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| All the dishes were exquisitely presented and the service was polite and attentive. |
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| Immediately realising his mistake he is attentive and polite, seeking her forgiveness. |
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| He's polite to a T, speaks generously about everyone who comes up in conversation and has a gentle demeanour. |
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| She's leaving us in a fortnight so we ended up having a polite chat in the porch as I made lurching movements towards the car. |
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| I'm polite, educated, have good table manners and a stash of preppy clothes for work purposes, and once in a while, I even tell a clean joke. |
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| For instance, if you want your child to have good manners, make sure she sees you being polite to others. |
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| If there was anything Isabelle loved more than shopping, it was shocking the polite society. |
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| Most of the kids were too polite to tell it to their parents, but it was evident in their behavior. |
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| In the UK, and most of Europe, it is not considered polite to just say what you want. |
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| He heard a young comedian being interviewed on the radio the other day and is far too polite to name him. |
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| If you are going into a bar or pub, with a woman is it more polite to let them go first, or to go first yourself to check that the place is safe? |
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| In the mind of a desperate prisoner you sometimes find genius that is seldom recognized in more polite society. |
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| In short, he has made an asset from features others find a hindrance to acceptance in polite society. |
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| But lay into others and you should prepare to be visited by the vengeance of polite society. |
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| The average citizen's own prejudices may have run deep, but he didn't dare speak them out in polite society. |
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| That is the root problem, indeed the only problem, but it is not mentioned in polite society. |
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| The reaction of polite society to this extraordinary work was one of astonishment. |
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| In this world she expresses sides to her character that struggle for oxygen in polite society. |
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| It took my mum to point out that Botox is now fully integrated into polite society. |
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| It would be regarded as not the thing to do in polite company in, for instance, Pacific Rim countries. |
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| He may have been born into polite society but Degas was no gentleman painter. |
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| In certain circles of polite society he is known as the Citra Fiend and cannot be trusted in matters of fruit. |
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| He's unfailingly calm and polite around Claire, and we get the sense throughout this episode that Ethan is sweet on her. |
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| In the parlors of polite society, social tolerance sits side by side with multiculturalism. |
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| Even though I was being super polite and friendly and gracious, and not at all sneaky, they have yet to get back to me. |
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| His whole career has been based on identifying with the marginal and empathizing with those whom polite society would scorn. |
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| Over the years he built a pagoda to polite English society as it faded in the glare of post-war vulgarity. |
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| Consequently, if you are easily swayed, then never try to engage in polite conversation but hang up the phone immediately. |
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| A few polite souls chuckled, but the real joke was that he had already lost something. |
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| Gordon had not caught the man's name, and was unsure how to ask in a polite manner. |
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| The comrades were too sympathetic or polite to express alarm that he's only just realised. |
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| Yet, as I sat, making polite conversation with Aunt Alice, I hunted for every little wrong thing I could find. |
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| The musical life of polite European society was a different world altogether. |
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| All this helped to establish French as the polite language of aristocratic society across most of Europe. |
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| Presley shocked polite society in the early 50s but came to symbolise the rebelliousness of rock and roll. |
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| Everyone has been kindness itself, without being cloyingly polite to the foreigner. |
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| They'd be polite to your face even if they don't like it and they'd have to respect you even if they are facety behind your back. |
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| Be polite, and double-check your words so that nothing you say could be misconstrued. |
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| They spoke of a kind, polite and popular son who would be incapable of cold-blooded murder. |
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| The reception was coldly polite and I put the phone down thinking the message had arrived but no-one was home to hear it. |
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| Hotels outside the city remind you of renting a room from a polite but unenthusiastic friend. |
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| He's polite and does not behave improperly but the sexual message is there. |
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| But it's not polite to complain about improbabilities and inaccuracies in other people's love letters. |
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| Unlike most of the places I've been, however, these villagers were more controlled and polite to a fault. |
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| I myself forgot about these issues and most people are too polite to mention them. |
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| It is also the ghost at the feast of much polite society in Northern Ireland. |
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| So, in effect, you are suggesting indulging in a guilty pleasure, but in a traditional, polite format. |
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| Has your student gone from predictably polite and compliant to moody and disagreeable? |
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| Being maid of honour is a pretty cool job really, and my taffeta monstrosity got lots of polite compliments. |
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| He seems such a nice bloke, however, that I left worried he was just being polite. |
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| It was expected that a gentleman would pay a polite compliment to a lady of his acquaintance, but quite another matter to be seen to mean it. |
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| His compliments were so polite and guarded but if you thought about them, they meant much. |
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| The more polite inflictor of this mildly embarrassing situation will usually hastily strafe away in a breakneck fashion. |
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| This isn't the polite concertizing that most modern students learn in their conservatoires. |
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| Tending the flagstick, the polite golfer is considerate enough to hold the flag against the pin to keep it from flapping if the wind is blowing. |
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| However, more often than not, a polite rejection note was all she received. |
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| But all he received in return was a polite thank you note while the piece was quietly filed away in the orchestra's library. |
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| Economics risks suffocating architecture, but so does polite conservatism and a consumerist attitude. |
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| I stuck out like a sore thumb because I was brought up to be polite and people are not quite sincere there. |
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| They celebrated a man who was scornful of polite convention and showed little interest in being embraced by the great and good. |
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| The message is usually loud and clear, but it is also carefully disguised under a layer of polite convention. |
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| All five sit down and begin an overly polite conversation covering such social niceties as the weather. |
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| He took all the luggage off the porter and with a polite thank you and goodbye, sent him on his way. |
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| Though they are couched in very polite language, they are bombshells nonetheless. |
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| She said that she was sorry for being late, and I tried to be as polite as I possibly could and told her that it was ok. |
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| She tried to be as polite as she possibly could about matters without physically pushing away. |
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| I know it's not polite of me to jump over the social niceties like this, but I really don't care that much right now. |
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| I made the short walk to my booth number, and was greeted by two courteous and polite women. |
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| But shop assistants insisted the star was polite and courteous throughout her visit. |
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| She would not mince her words or thoughts and never subscribed to social niceties of polite but fallacious and insincere expressions. |
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| More people were coming inside and Sarah was polite and courteous to every one of them. |
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| All visitors were treated courteously by the polite volunteers, and tea and meals were served to one and all. |
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| He had asked her, in a courtly, polite way, if she would let him make the choice. |
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| Even the crackpots who vented at him received polite and gracious counter-arguments. |
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| Using polite forms and neutral pronouns with peers is considered effeminate. |
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| This is not correct form in polite company, but then, I generally avoid polite company. |
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| Wednesday nights started off as a polite night round at my flat with a few crisps, a couple of olives and a glass of Frascati. |
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| A friend and I spent a few hours in the main street browsing in shops, and everyone who spoke to me was friendly, polite and smiling. |
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| He asked polite questions for a few minutes until his faithful steward Bertram brought tea and frosted cakes. |
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| This wasn't just polite applause, rather it was an affectionate, full-throated cheer, lasting for a good 30 seconds. |
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| Iago himself is opposed to the gallantries and polite talk of Cassio, especially in regard to Desdemona. |
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| We see it as a Brummagem display and it usually inspires thoughts we cannot air in polite company. |
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| Not one for polite preambles, she got right to the point-our aunt Sophie had developed critical heart and lung problems. |
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| We watch, with polite amusement, as two civil engineers descend on the rural community of Rosscullen to set up an idealised garden city. |
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| Her voice was soft and polite though and flavoured with gentle English sibilants, with ever such cute flecks of a darling ethnic Punjabi accent. |
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| During the three years I spent stationed in their country I found them to be, as a general rule, a humble, friendly, and polite group. |
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| It was fine, dear, but please do be polite to your sister and let her finish. |
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| So even when she was rude or brusque with me I tried to be as polite as I could, knowing that there were reasons behind her attitude. |
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| He was always polite and non-combative towards Connolly, as he has been to most of his guests over the years. |
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| As a nice guy, I endeavor to be polite and non-hostile to everybody I encounter. |
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| The actor endeared himself to the locals as a real gentleman, modest and polite and always ready to meet the people. |
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| Staff described him as a man who had time for everyone and was always polite and a true gentleman. |
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| On the bus on my way home, I was very polite to an elderly gentleman by offering him my side of the seat where he'd be more comfortable. |
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| When two girls came in, in an effort to be polite he told one that the dress she wore was pretty. |
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| I just act polite and a bit contrite and seem to get off with warnings, always. |
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| We're not just talking about a polite and decorous way to find a New Year's date in a matter of mere weeks. |
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| The flag waving was decorous, the cheering polite and the umpire was never once insulted. |
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| Reform is a polite euphemism for forcing banks to close out bad loans, enforce bankruptcy, and require layoffs of excess workers. |
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| He smiled as he set down a tray of mugs in front of a few ladies, who giggled at him and made polite small talk. |
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| Why doesn't a polite and deferential invitation to talk do the trick any more? |
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| She smiled and leaned towards her guest with more than polite curiosity gleaming in her blue eyes. |
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| That was the year when, casting off her teen-pop image, she scandalised polite society with the video for her new single. |
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| And god knows I prefer honest vulgarity to polite denial of uncomfortable truths. |
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| The voice on the phone from New York is tremulous, unfailingly polite, marked by hesitations and bursts of nervous laughter. |
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| In England, you can ask for 'the bog' if you are in a pub, 'the little boy's room' or 'the girl's room' if you are in prudishly polite company. |
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| All around, people queued in a polite but formal way to pay their respects. |
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| They learn to get what they want by swapping New York-style pushiness for polite deference and restraint. |
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| Hopeless is the most polite word I can think of to describe my complete lack of skill, coordination and dexterity. |
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| Walking upstairs, he met a couple of neighbours, who greeted him in a polite way. |
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| No sounds had come from the kitchen, but he knew as etiquette it was not polite to nose around the host's house. |
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| Every evening about fifty or sixty women step out of the shadows to receive a free meal of hot soup, fruit and bread in polite silence. |
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| When I answered the door, my polite greeting was cut off by him pushing past me roughly. |
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| Arrive a little early, make sure you're neatly dressed, and step forward with a polite greeting and handshake. |
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| The guard scanned each of them thoroughly, then returned the polite greeting. |
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| The husband cleared his throat, stalling for time in which to think of a polite response. |
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| Certainly she's very blonde and elaborately made-up, but she's also disarmingly polite and articulate. |
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| However, they also noted that the public had praised staff, saying they treated patients with dignity and respect and were polite and caring. |
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| If you want to avoid receiving gifts all together, I'm afraid there's no polite way to do that without seeming the Grinch. |
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| He always has been that kind of stand-up guy, as well as polite to a fault. |
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| While Currie is extremely polite and diplomatic, it is clear he finds these frustrating and unhelpful. |
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| Sighing, Julie says a polite goodbye to Clark and disappears up the stairs. |
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| Our guide, an Emirati woman recently graduated from university, spoke perfect English and was reserved, polite and hugely informative. |
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| Introverted, unthreatening, wimpy and polite when approached, it isn't immediately obvious why emos have suddenly become national hate figures. |
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| It must also be careful not to become a silent apologist or polite enabler for the regime. |
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| He puts restaurant's success down to good food, polite efficient service, and the process of pleasure and enjoyment. |
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| Germany and the USA would have solved their differences in private, and in euphemistic, polite language. |
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| When our paths just crossed, we gave polite hellos and tight-lipped smiles and then continued on our ways. |
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| What the writer is trying to do is so simple in its moral duplicitousness that it deserves no polite reply. |
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| If they truly want a private conversation then they should be polite and ask to be excused. |
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| When he finished eating, he stood up with a small polite excuse me and placed his dish in the sink, quickly heading up to Wes' room. |
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| After a couple of polite hellos and a social drink, excuses were made and a wave of relief washed over everyone as they shut the car door. |
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| The doorkeeper, unable to refuse such a firm yet polite man, consented at last, giving us his final warning. |
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| But the Fabian policy of permeation made it obligatory for them to enter the drawing rooms of Edwardian polite society. |
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| Waving polite hellos, I pretended to listen into what was turning out to be a very boring conversation about stocks and bonds. |
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| A polite tongue provided a shield of tactful silence and banal pleasantries that staved off needless provocation and harm. |
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| Admittedly she's young, slim and a tad green and new to the place, so it's only polite. |
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| In fact, this polite and sharp-witted man got into museum work whilst working as a boat builder. |
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| He was mild-mannered and polite, attempting light humour to put me at my ease. |
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| Religion and politics are apparently the two topics best avoided when engaging in polite conversation. |
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| The girl gave a polite shake of the head declining the tea, but took the proffered chair. |
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| She is at once fiercely competitive and ladylike, a fighter to the death and yet a model of polite understatement. |
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| Samantha is so frighteningly polite that to pose cynical questions seems rather below the belt. |
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| I have to tell you, those people are remarkably well-behaved and gracious and polite. |
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| The most behaved and polite team throughout the series, the Green Tree Pub, also took home a cash prize. |
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| Established wisdom holds that good error messages are polite, precise, and constructive. |
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| Moore was hoping for some polite titters, but the audience exploded into laughter. |
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| A few knocks on doors, polite people take his literature and then it's into Browne's pub where the welcome from tipplers is warm. |
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| Not just polite little smiles either, but huge, genuine, sparkly-eyed smiles of pure beatific satisfaction. |
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| Adjarians are polite and courteous under most circumstances, even when they are bargaining at a bazaar. |
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| They are ultra-competitive on the field but meek and mild and very polite off the field. |
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| I think one thing about it is just that day to day, in my dealings with people, my mother raised me right, so I try to be polite. |
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| He struggled self-consciously through his polite talk in French rather than let loose his usual machine-gun diatribes. |
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| Normal polite, generous people seem to turn into very selfish, self-centred individuals once they light up a cigarette. |
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| Bath Bombs are dynamic, a 21st century version of the polite, sophisticated early 20th century bath cube. |
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| Blessed with a running time polite enough to not overstay its welcome, it cuts a meandering swathe through a whole plethora of styles. |
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| It was not really polite for us girls, especially me, to initiate a conversation during our evening meal. |
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| Eric was rapidly getting the drift of the conversation and trying to phrase a polite refusal in his mind. |
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| We just get new business parks surrounded by seas of cars and a trim of polite landscaping just like anywhere else. |
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| It's polite to pretend you are completely unaware that everyone else is starkers. |
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| He is even polite enough to invite me to stay for lunch, whereas five years ago he used to say no way was he feeding journalists. |
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| Try as we might to pretend otherwise, the mask of polite discourse had been shattered. |
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| Everyone ate their marbled steak and potatoes and only the preppy kids and parents ate the green beans to be polite or just for taste. |
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| In a display of polite manners I declined the offer of a juice and a nice cup of tea. |
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| She picked up the same one as him, and began to eat, trying as hard as she could to be polite and use the manners that her mother had taught her. |
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| When stealing money from financial institutions, he remembers his manners and is polite at all times to the victims of his raids. |
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| You know we bend over backwards in work to be helpful and polite to people. |
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| There's even a polite cheer from the family from the shires who are sitting directly behind us in the stalls. |
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| I wrote to the address given and received a very polite handwritten letter in reply. |
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| There's an unspoken rule when hitching that polite listening is compulsory, arguing outlawed. |
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| Upbeat, polite, and baby-faced, with tight braids crisscrossing his head, he is the kind of student that Ikeda could only hope for. |
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| You could tell he didn't think much of my work, though he was far too polite to blurt it out. |
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| He goes into prison to interview the much feared mogul, who is polite and tells him nothing. |
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| We discontinued our love charade, even with Rod present, and never gave more than a stiff and polite nod of greeting to one another. |
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| They were polite and spoke barely above a whisper and never used faults in an animal to force a deal. |
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| And in a mixed gym it isn't polite to mention you hate to hear men grunting, sweating and groaning next to you. |
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| Everyday language uses a number of euphemisms, including polite formulas, circumlocutions, allusions, and stock phrases. |
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| Whitbread Pub Partnerships researchers say aspiring Casanovas are best sticking to complimentary and polite ice-breakers. |
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| Although this may be a polite and quaint custom, it is often of little use to the recipient. |
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| The Quakers also rejected the use of you as a polite form of address, and preferred thou, which to them signalled intimacy and equality. |
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| The students were polite and went easy on the coach who was sacked earlier this season. |
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| Sure, she had given a few polite smiles and laughs and even cooed over her goddaughter, but he had never seen her smile or laugh from pure unadulterated joy. |
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| He had made polite small talk with her, and that seemed to be about it. |
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| When he was irritated, he swallowed it down and bottled it up, and even when he had little reason to be so, he would still always be polite to those who didn't deserve it. |
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| There are some things that shouldn't be mentioned in polite society. |
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| Do we have to act in a certain way to be accepted in polite society? |
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| He may be perfectly polite and even smile from time to time, but he still looks like he would eat you for breakfast rather than give much away about himself. |
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| Not long ago, polite society had only begun to tolerate slamming the Electoral College as a perniciously quaint old institution. |
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| For example, a lot of the words that we would today classify as racial slurs were in common usage in polite society as recently as thirty years ago. |
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| He paused for the brief spattering of polite applause that followed. |
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| I am afraid to say that this revelation caused a certain amount of food to be spat out, and scenes of a boisterous nature which cannot be tolerated in polite society. |
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| The polite diplomatic language hides the implications that there would be a global black psy-ops campaign in favor of the war, conducted from London. |
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| He takes to the bush after attracting the hostility of polite society. |
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| That volume commanded polite notices and some positive reviews. |
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| The vulgar language was a way of signalling to the voters that he was one of them, not speaking in political officialese or respecting the conventions of polite society. |
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| The pope was taken prisoner and kept in polite captivity for nine months. |
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| He was very polite but wouldn't take the clamp off till she paid him. |
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| By the 1800s polite society began to place a premium on brides being virgins, and the Victorian ideal was that women should be chaste before marriage and modest afterwards. |
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| He was so polite and chatty he was a pleasure to have in the restaurant. |
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| It seemed only polite to say goodnight with a kiss, just between friends. |
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| There are still some things that cannot be talked about in polite society. |
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| If you see me in the street and engage in conversation I will probably freeze into polite fear and smile inanely until I can get away to be on my lonely ownsome. |
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| The period for maintaining polite fictions and Chinese walls has expired. |
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| Chloe heard herself murmur polite thank-yous and good nights to their hosts and the various guests they encountered on their path to the front door. |
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| Everyone was polite to a fault, and the place was spotlessly clean. |
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| He listened patiently, and gave thanks in polite and measured tones. |
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| As a passenger in other people's vehicles, I have seen how normally peaceable and polite people become aggressive and rude behind the wheel of a car. |
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| Vienna's polite coffee house society is in open revolt over plans to turn one of the city's most prestigious cafes into an Italian-style coffee bar. |
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| She had composed herself and was full of polite words and false smiles. |
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| The operator on the end of the phone will speak flawless English, be chatty and polite and might even commiserate with you over the rotten weather where you live. |
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| I guess it's polite to start off a criticism with a compliment. |
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| The choreography evokes the ladies' specialties, their lethally polite rivalry, and, most important, the filigreed yet dazzling nature of Romantic-era technique. |
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| After a few polite pleasantries he put the car into gear and drove off. |
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| Instead, Bergman is stuck playing a polite flibbertigibbet, the kind of helpless royal who many would consider scandalous if she wasn't so pure in her personal morality. |
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| The sentries posted at the police stations have been asked to be more polite and friendly so that complainants do not hesitate from coming to the police stations. |
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| Remember to curtsey or bow, and be polite and courteous to everyone. |
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| Isn't it weird how French kissing is the kind that everyone does, while polite smooches on the cheek, which seem to me to be particularly continental, lack a proper name? |
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| Breaking all the rules of public dancing, the waltz scandalised polite society with its racy rhythms, generating a social revolution along the way. |
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| This is the death house, where killing is done by quiet-spoken, polite people who first serve you a fine meal and pray with you before they kill you. |
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| Chintz armchairs and couch, and a walnut sideboard with light-catching decanters and a crystal fruit bowl on lace, completed to the air of polite gentility. |
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| Since any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse. |
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| We wanted other people to be polite and ignore our decrepitude. |
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