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Polite in sentence

214 examples of Polite in a sentence

Now, even with this, I still think that Canadians are the more polite North Americans, so don't hold it against us.
Many of you probably subscribe to our polite cultural belief that we should respect religion.
If you're one of them, and of course many of you may not be, but if you are one of them, I'm asking you to stop being polite, come out, and say so.
They're hiring them to get it done, get it on budget, be polite, and they're missing out on the real value of an architect.
AB: No, we need to be polite about differences.
The more polite ones said, "Well, you know, Indians make good software programmers and accountants, but they can't do the creative stuff."
For example, in polite requests, if someone says, "If you could pass the guacamole, that would be awesome," we know exactly what he means, even though that's a rather bizarre concept being expressed.
So the puzzle is, why are bribes, polite requests, solicitations and threats so often veiled?
The simplest example of this is in the polite request.
Now, one objection you often hear, or maybe you don't hear it because people are too polite to say it, is, why should I pay more taxes to invest in other people's children?
I'm not going to ask if you had a shower, because I'm too polite.
He is both being polite and rude.
These are the more polite ones I could share with you today.
But believe me, there are more polite ways to offer assistance.
And as you go through the path, you have to get more and more polite.
Bill collectors call constantly, reading verbatim from a script before expressing polite sympathy for my plight and then demanding payment arrangements I can't possibly meet.
They even studied the universal principles of polite language, which I didn't even actually know existed until this research happened.
And he was very polite, he read it, and he said, "You know what, Tina, this isn't right for us, but thank you so much for sharing."
So it seems possible that the neurobiology for helpless, involuntary laughter, like my parents lying on the floor screaming about a silly song, might have a different basis to it than some of that more polite social laughter that you encounter, which isn't horrible laughter, but it's behavior somebody is doing as part of their communicative act to you, part of their interaction with you; they are choosing to do this.
Prices tend to go down, product quality tends to go up, and the vendors are attentive, they're polite, they're consumer-centric, offering you all manner of special deals, one-offs, buy-one-get-one-frees, free delivery, to keep you happy.
I know you're too polite to ask, so I will tell you.
We took off our shoes in the house, we were unfailingly polite with our elders, we ate slow-cooked, spicy food.
And my hosts in Pakistan said, "Look, don't be too polite to us.
Well, there are social skills: making friends, solving conflicts, being pleasant and polite.
And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don't want to talk to them? (Laughter) You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation, we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady": Stick to the weather and your health.
Ironically, it was actually the informal pronoun for people you're close with, while "you" was the formal and polite version.
That distinction was lost when the English decided to just be polite all the time.
Asking a zodiac sign is a polite way of asking your age.
When most people think about my homeland, Canada, today, if they think about Canada at all, they think cold, they think boring, they think polite.
Agreeable people are warm and friendly, they're nice, they're polite.
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