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Sentence Examples
They are more direct than us, in some ways like animals, but also with more elaborate notions of politeness.
She is a tightly fitted mask of compulsive politeness pulled over both great grief and corrosive, unhealed cruelties.
The inanity, the empty politeness of small talk is revealed by its absence.
At last, something has breached the barriers of the urbane politeness he seems to construct around himself these days.
Or maybe Britain's reputation for politeness is long gone, replaced by a surly jobsworth attitude that slowly sours every day in this city.
Enthusiasm is crucial, as is respect, politeness and the sponge-like ability to absorb knowledge.
The young Light Lord interrupted, without ceremony or pretense of politeness.
The treatment of the police by the marchers was equally one-sided in favor of civility and politeness.
His hands are very soft but quite puffy too, and his shake is straight from the school of perfunctory political politeness.
I fear his intense, mind-beating politeness, his titanium imperviousness to human weakness, his barking power-laugh.
When politeness is all we have connecting us to others, incivility takes on an exaggerated significance.
Older and newly arrived Vietnamese Americans often display indirectness and extreme politeness in dealing with others.
Yet when does this politeness, this so-called consideration become mere insipidity?
It's hard to explain the affect ingrained politeness and social pleasantness has.
The pointless poses of the last farewells pass into the ice of politeness like the smooth insides of a purse.
Few people like to cause offence, particularly in business, which suffers from a suffocating politeness.
The two candidates are said not to like one another much, despite their studied politeness during most of the primaries.
Maybe out of a sense of politeness which these women must observe, the audience did not get angry.
They want lessons in politeness, courtesy, and most of all the correct way to drive a car in traffic.
I expect politeness and courtesy towards me as landowner, my family, friends, guests and visitors.
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The waiting staff, very much to their credit, were the epitome of courtesy, politeness and calm, despite being rushed completely off their feet.
There is more foolishness, more cowardly hearts, less courage, lack of appreciation and gratitude and less politeness.
Recent studies of the pragmatics of politeness have drawn on conversational data.
Don't get me wrong I'm not a habititual complainer, but I expect to be given a decent service and politeness, not much to ask is it?
But nonetheless you couldn't escape the general gingerliness of the show, the forced politeness of the proceedings.
Despite her plain clothes, she radiated a ladylike politeness and civility.
Through such works, we can trace the development of modern forms of politeness and table manners.
Socialization involves mastering table manners and politeness, but it also concerns learning how to conform to the world's most terrible ways.
Still, even for the rich, chair backs were straight and clothes were tight because politeness mattered more than comfort.
Their language is formal and even when they are hostile to each other, manners and politeness reign.
She forgives him after seeing his politeness and cordial manners during the meal they have together.
Discipline in all walks of life, punctuality, politeness and good manners are expected from the police constables and officers.
Since I've been over here on this semi-permanent basis, I have found almost universal kindness and politeness.
Conditions get slightly uncomfortable and all politeness flies out the window.
They were unstinting in their generosity, politeness and helpfulness.
He parried every question and implication that Wallace threw at him with equanimity, humility, politeness, and even humor.
Amused by the tone that he knew held no jokes in it, the ring of the doorbell released him of his job of having to sit around and say nothing out of politeness, he stood.
Two somewhat ritualized markers of politeness are the offering of tea, coffee, and sweets to house visitors and taking turns buying rounds of drinks at a pub.
In a later scene when Smiley interrogates haydon, they never break through the barrier of politeness.
The politeness of the elderly was in marked contrast to the freshness, sometimes brashness, often deliberate, of the young, seen even in their responses to the questionnaire.
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Out of politeness your hosts and the guests will occasionally talk to you in English, but don't be surprised if they get frustrated and revert to French for an hour or two.
He questions old saws with irreverence, humour, and flintiness, unencumbered by our proverbial politeness and our suffocating political correctness.
Col. Montee ran down his wish list, while the Lieutenant opted out of politeness to look at the floor, then the ceiling, and finally eyes front on the Colonel.
He has also restricted traditional public access to City Hall and demanded civility and politeness from traditionally sharp-tongued and sarcastic New Yorkers.
The letters were greatly praised as models of politeness, for their wit, and for the candidness displayed by the authors regarding their conduct during their courtship.
If I thought everyone would behave like fluffy bunnies, that we could all live in some excessively nice utopian society where respect and politeness ran rampant, then nah!
Hyperinflation is inflation that has burst the bounds of politeness.
Used as a humorously exaggerated formula of politeness when refusing food.
From which you'll gather that her relationship with Guy is very different to Harry's brown-nosing or Digby's politeness.
Three days of paying the snottiest attention that politeness allowed him to stretch.
And it speaks volumes for the politeness of her hosts and Daisy's gutsiness that her Bollywood routine doesn't see her dragged off stage.
He remembered that the politeness seemed too elaborate, too florid, altiloquent to the extent of insincerity.
Until of course even they reach the limit of their politeness.
In addition to courteousness and sobriety mentioned earlier, meliorating formal virtues include politeness, decency, modesty, hospitableness, and unpretentiousness.
He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality.
It is clear, however, that while politeness manifests itself on both the communicative and non-communicative levels, phaticity is found only on the former level.
Too often is the college graduate a solecist through her ignorance of the customs and usages of that class whose life is made up of the minutiae of politeness.
And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
And it speaks volumes for the politeness of her hosts and Daisy's gutsiness and likeability that her Bollywood routine doesn't see her dragged offstage with a big hook.
Examples from Classical Literature
Mme. de Lorcy thanked him for his kindness, with rather a cool politeness, and asked him for news of her goddaughter.
Cally saw that the small three-years' buncher, through politeness or otherwise, was speaking without reference to the truth.
Mr. shea was not at all mollified either by the smile or the politeness of her tone.
Francesco has a mezzo voce, which might, by a stretch of politeness, be called baritone.
His suave politeness was a velvet veil of character behind which he masked the slavering fangs of the beast he really was.
If a man is introduced to him, unattended by a woman, and he is with a stag party, politeness bids him also rise.
He was Chesterfieldian in conventional politeness, and as smooth as Talleyrand in ambiguity of speech.
Even the marquis, with his ironical politeness, was beginning to displease her.
He was as indefatigable in politeness, as his wife had been in her regimental duties.
But these are distinct from the perfect polish and politeness of indifferentism.
Armorer spoke with suave politeness, but there was a cynical gleam in his eye.
And Merula presumptuously and provokingly continuing to prate, he disputed no further, but assented with evasive politeness.
Francesco has a mezza voce, which might, by a stretch of politeness, be called baritone.
Meeting Casanova in the entry, he gave him precedence with mock politeness.
After he had ordered his own lunch, he turned to her with an edgy politeness.
Lapsang showed us great politeness, and asked us as a personal favor to him to go by the Lumpiya Pass.
In one respect her englishness of accent was less an imitation or an affectation than a certain form of politeness and modesty.
The Chevalier Bigot does not lose his politeness, however long he absents himself!
My politeness was well repaid, for nothing more delicate in the way of an omelet has ever titillated my palate.
He rose as Roma entered, and received her with his great but glacial politeness.
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Mr. Justice Redington would ask, with punctilious politeness, when the crown prosecutor sat down after examining a witness.
He rued his own bulk, and ate but sparingly, only out of politeness.
Marie lifted her large eyes on her cousin with an air of some curiosity, and received her with languid politeness.
She has, indeed, a natural politeness, which transcends all acquirement.
This propaganda of politeness has gone so far that to-day the man who is profane or abusive at the telephone, is cut off from the use of it.
But Mr. Hand, flattered by her politeness, begged her to remain.
Well, I won't be behind you in politeness, and so I'll give you one of my country reels.
Really, Gerald, your politeness, your consideration, your good manners, astound me.
He treated her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of an automaton, the movements of which had been arranged for this purpose.
Now, I must say that is the very tip-top of gentility and politeness.
Frank Churchill was so extremely and there was a mat to step uponI shall never forget his extreme politeness.
Oh for one day's respite from the politeness of Mrs. glutch!
He receives me graciously enough, and treats me with politeness.
Neither is politeness at all inconsistent with thorough familiarity.
He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics?
But he had the tact, if possible, to intensify his politeness toward her.
Kano's politeness could not hide, entirely, a shudder of antipathy.
He smiled with the most cordial politeness, and helped himself to a strawberry from the dish on his lap.
You'd better not tell him so, or he might give you a lesson in politeness.
I must here commemorate what happened for the first time during our nearly five years' wandering, namely, having met with a want of politeness.
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Indeed, it was remarkable how well he bore these slights and with what unwearying politeness he kept on trying to ingratiate himself with all.
Anne's disapproval of the whole project showed itself in the haughty uplift of her head and the studied politeness of her remarks.
What do you mean by comin' to a hot-el, and asking arter Sam, vith as much politeness as a vild Indian?
He was smiling all the time, but his deep-set eyes did not lend themselves to the expression of whimsical politeness which he tried to achieve.
Sir, officiousness is not politeness, she said very slowly and forcibly.
How you oppress me, my dearest friend, with your politeness!
He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity.
But the correctness of his eye, and the delicacy of his taste, proved to be beyond his politeness.
The governor, suspicious and hard, behaved towards D'Artagnan with a politeness almost amounting to obsequiousness.
Casaubon felt a surprise which was quite unmixed with pleasure, but he did not swerve from his usual politeness of greeting, when Will rose and explained his presence.
If a lady take a fancy to any male passenger's seat, the gentleman who accompanies her gives him notice of the fact, and he immediately vacates it with great politeness.
She has shown us how to take the friction out of conversation, and taught us refinements of politeness which were rare even among the Beau Brummels of pre-telephonic days.
She takes the highest moral ground, in a tone of spiteful politeness.
And then every one among her friends whom I have met at her house or elsewhere, every one who has shown me the minimum of politeness, every duke of them and his wife.
There now, you'll have a chance of a holiday with your good man,' said Nikita, who from kindhearted politeness always said something to anyone he was alone with.
Not a good start if it should be a 1995 Evo, making smoke which would have impressed the Atlantic battle fleet, pulling up outside for tea and politeness.
