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214 examples of Polite in a sentence

One can listen repeatedly to the inevitable testimony of friends and family that they did not see this coming, no sign whatsoever, that the killer had been a good son, polite to his neighbors, with no particular story that would raise suspicions.
We never called them servants, however; it was not a polite word.
The critics may not represent the majority of users, but they deserve a polite and considered response.
In his last visit to NATO, Secretary of Defense William Cohen replaced polite approval in principle with expressions of concern that stop just short of outright opposition.
That is not something even the most polite US diplomat can welcome.
Is Juan obsequiously polite to Alice, but abrupt to Marvin?
But those sentiments are a world away from the pretty, polite techniques of his mathematical progeny.
Cuba’s dissidents will, of course, happily do without Western cocktail parties and polite conversation at receptions.
An interrogation, we were instructed, should begin with polite, direct questioning, because a certain number of detainees simply want to unburden themselves.
Many today are complaining about Alan Greenspan’s monetary stewardship, which kept these three locomotives stoked: “serial bubble-blower” is the most polite phrase that I have heard.
Behind the smiles, the polite interactions, and the cautiously worded diplomatic language, strong undercurrents of suspicion remain.
In public, most of them are more polite, but the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, struck a chord recently when he called for a reevaluation of how much progress has been made on addressing the problem of financial institutions that are “too big to fail” (TBTF).
It is still not permissible in polite company to talk about these frontline states acquiring their own nuclear weapons.
They are things to be eradicated or at the very least not discussed in polite company.
This is economists’ polite code for the message that the US must gradually cut its budget deficit, while other countries – like China and Japan – must gradually let the value of the dollar fall and that of their own currencies rise.
He is being polite.
And yet, even as nationalistic emotions were suppressed in polite society all over Europe, the soccer stadiums remained stubbornly in the pre-WWII world.
The UN is not broken, but it is in trouble, particularly as more countries treat it as a polite diplomatic afterthought and seek solutions to major global problems elsewhere.
When I stressed to them that the target was 35%, they signaled their incredulity with polite smiles.
That “covert” operation (hardly discussed in the polite pages of the New York Times) led to an ongoing civil war that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths and millions displaced from their homes.
The earthy case, seldom made clearly in polite company, was that the countries in southern Europe spent too much, taxed too little, and thus borrowed in excess.
Polite society seemed not to give a damn that it had become easier to get into Harvard or Cambridge if you were black than if you were poor.
The International Monetary Fund for example, has argued that any rate hike by the Fed would need an “effective monetary policy communication strategy” – a polite way of saying that any monetary tightening in the US and other advanced economies would be premature.
But she confessed that the SEC had many other items on its agenda, and had placed the issue on the back burner – a polite way to say that the SEC, like the heroic students in Tiananmen Square, had surrendered under irresistible pressure.
Straight talk will not make the new Ukraine always obliging or comfortable, but straight talk will be a great deal more productive than polite misunderstandings, and need frighten no one.
Under such circumstances, calling Mitchell’s work up to now a failure is the only polite – and realistic – thing to do.
By contrast, liberal democrats, products of the Enlightenment all, advocate for their political ideals – which value human reason above base emotions – in a tone best suited to small, polite gatherings.
Polite analysts call it “management of information.”
It felt like a polite police state: there were around ten people there voting, and at least 20 police officers and voting officials there to watch them.
Throughout the tour, the American answered with polite exclamations like “exquisite” or “striking.”
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