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Courteous in sentence

70 examples of Courteous in a sentence

A recent study at Penn State University found that when you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, but you actually appear to be more competent.
And he's very courteous to them, and he hopes for smiles and he gets them.
In response, he gave me an even more courteous version of the same explanation.
The plot of "The Emperor's Candlesticks" is total nonsense in the 1930s Hollywood fantasies about benevolent despots, courteous kidnappers, and gallant spies.
No matter what situation he finds himself in, he is courteous, polite and he accepts that these are the customs of these people!
The young soldier is everything a Boy Scout should be: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverend.
Cowboys are respectful, courteous, loyal, hard-working and yet, they do play hard.
Heck, I don't usually even like documentaries, but I felt as if this funny, courteous, kind, assortment of people was inviting me into a particularly enjoyable party in which nobody was a wallflower.
I also remember that, while our official residence was full of excellent, hardworking staff (to whom she was always kind and courteous), she was the only visitor – and there were many – who made her own bed!
Asia’s Fragile Special RelationshipNEW DELHI – “Tzu-Ch’in asked Tzu-Kung a few questions;Tzu-Kung answered: …Our Master gets things (done) by being cordial, frank, courteous, temperate, deferential.
But surely two great and ancient civilizations can find their way to the type of “cordial, frank, courteous, temperate, deferential…” relations that would have pleased Confucius.
So the language used on this occasion by Fischer, normally the mildest and most courteous of men, should cause us to sit up and take notice.
Above all, she had a great rapport with the charming and courteous ex-film actor Ronald Reagan, and a poor one with the patrician conservative George H.W. Bush.
The Labour Party’s defeat in May’s general election brought about the resignation of its leader, Ed Miliband, a courteous and intelligent figure who, having abandoned the middle ground once controlled by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, had failed to convince even his own party that he could run the country.
Toward him Vronsky was simple and courteous.
He spoke with the correct air of a high official avoiding any passionate interest in the matter, with the courteous dryness of a simple instrument of authority.
I have an excellent account of him,' said the bishop in a courteous tone which left Julien more fascinated than ever.
The good fortune of going to Paris, which he peopled in his imagination with men of intelligence, great intriguers, great hypocrites, but as courteous as the Bishop of Besancon and the Bishop of Agde, eclipsed everything else in his eyes.
He went to seek the advice of the abbe Pirard, who, less courteous than the Marquis, answered him only with a whistle and changed the subject.
'I wager, however, Master Philosopher, that you have not discovered what you went to England to do.''Pardon me,' replied Julien; 'I went there to dine once a week with His Majesty's Ambassador, who is the most courteous of men.''You went to secure the Cross which is lying there' the Marquis told him.
The last words were uttered rapidly, with an extraordinary and certainly far from courteous air.
A small boy was directed to guide him to his room; and wishing a courteous good-night to the whole party, the traveler withdrew.
To appearances, the reply was as courteous as the excuse; yet Harper wore a resignation in his deportment that was widely different from the uneasy manner of the father.
Even Captain Lawton had been received with many and courteous inquiries after the state of his health, from all the members of the family, when he made his morning entrance; but an invisible spirit presided over the comforts of the English colonel.
A second mild and courteous gesture motioned to a vacant chair, but the stranger refused it with a modest acknowledgment.
My landlady was very courteous, took my money for my reckoning, but was called away, all the house being in a hurry.
This was, it seems, the boatswain, a very civil, courteous sort of man, who told me I should have that, or any other liberty that I desired, that he could allow me with safety.
I took care, when I gave him the shilling, to let him see that I had a little better furniture about me than the ordinary prisoners, for he saw that I had a purse, and in it a pretty deal of money; and I found that the very sight of it immediately furnished me with very different treatment from what I should otherwise have met with in the ship; for though he was very courteous indeed before, in a kind of natural compassion to me, as a woman in distress, yet he was more than ordinarily so afterwards, and procured me to be better treated in the ship than, I say, I might otherwise have been; as shall appear in its place.
At this moment it so happened that a swineherd who was going through the stubbles collecting a drove of pigs (for, without any apology, that is what they are called) gave a blast of his horn to bring them together, and forthwith it seemed to Don Quixote to be what he was expecting, the signal of some dwarf announcing his arrival; and so with prodigious satisfaction he rode up to the inn and to the ladies, who, seeing a man of this sort approaching in full armour and with lance and buckler, were turning in dismay into the inn, when Don Quixote, guessing their fear by their flight, raising his pasteboard visor, disclosed his dry dusty visage, and with courteous bearing and gentle voice addressed them,"Your ladyships need not fly or fear any rudeness, for that it belongs not to the order of knighthood which I profess to offer to anyone, much less to highborn maidens as your appearance proclaims you to be."
Courteous salutations were exchanged on meeting, and inquiring one of the other which way each party was going, they learned that all were bound for the scene of the burial, so they went on all together.
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