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Polite in sentence

214 examples of Polite in a sentence

The voice on the end of the line was calm, educated, even polite.
But if you engage your drivers in interested and polite conversation, you will most likely maintain a good rating.
This shift had the benefit of unmasking America’s real purposes in the Middle East, which are not so obscure, after all, except for the fact that mainstream pundits, US establishment strategists, and members of Congress tend not to mention them in polite company.
The country is just the same: open, civil, and polite.
Since then, there have been calls to re-empower the “gatekeepers,” which is a polite way of saying that the unwashed masses should be kept as far away from political decision-making as possible.
Since shortly after the report was released in mid-April, Mueller and US Attorney General William Barr, formerly colleagues and friends, have engaged in a polite but fierce argument over the findings of the investigation.
Vronsky was more than polite to him, and was evidently interested in the artist's opinion of his (Vronsky's) picture.
He considers it to be in the best form, and therefore I have to be polite to him!''Come, Kostya, you are exaggerating!'
However, she insisted good-naturedly, and said at last:"Well, I will drink before you since you are so polite.
Each party stopped its galleries at two hundred metres from the other; it was a duel to the last drop of blood, although the managers and engineers maintained polite relations with each other.
He was a stout, cold, polite man, and he prided himself on never changing his mind.
But a quarrel broke out between the two brothers: Jeanlin had hastened to jump into the tub under the pretence that Zacharie was still eating; and the latter hustled him, claiming his turn, and calling out that he was polite enough to allow Catherine to wash herself first, but he did not wish to have the rinsings of the young urchins, all the less since, when Jeanlin had been in, it would do to fill the school ink-pots.
Then we shall see!""Monsieur is quite right," said Madame Rasseneur, who, in her revolutionary violence, was always very polite.
Each time it was a glass, two if they were polite enough to return the invitation.
Oh! they were very polite; they repeated that they wouldn't prevent their men from forming a reserve fund.
He would drink nothing, in spite of the polite insistence of Madame Rasseneur, who sold her beer as though she made a present of it.
He interrupted himself to add with polite stiffness:"Sit down, I desire nothing better than to talk things over."
A certain constraint, a breath of fear passed through the polite drawing-room.
He had seen the scene, and came to receive his guests in his usual cold and polite manner.
"Well said," declared Madame Rasseneur, with her polite and convinced air.
"Don't mind if he's not very polite," said the Levaque woman, obligingly.
Conseil and I stayed next to each other, as if daydreaming that through our metal carapaces, a little polite conversation might still be possible!
Ah!How I should send her packing!'Absorbed in these drastic thoughts, the little that he deigned to take in of the polite speeches of the two ladies displeased him as being devoid of meaning, silly, feeble, in a word _feminine_.
'This Marquis would not be polite like my dear Bishop,' he thought.
I am wandering ...Well, you understand what you must do; be gentle, polite, never contemptuous with these vulgar personages, I implore you on my knees: they are to be the arbiters of our destiny.
Whatever talent he may have for Latin, he is nothing more, after all, than a peasant who is often coarse and wanting in tact; every day, thinking he is being polite, he plies me with extravagant compliments in the worst of taste, which he learns by heart from some novel ...''He never reads any,' cried M. de Renal; 'I am positive as to that.
What embarrassed him was a sentence which he wished to cast in a polite form, but really he was incapable of using his mind.
The Edinburgh ReviewThe Marquis de La Mole received the abbe Pirard without any of those little mannerisms of a great gentleman, outwardly so polite, but so impertinent to him who understands them.
'My dear abbe,' said the Marquis, after polishing off in less than five minutes all the polite formulas and personal inquiries, 'my dear abbe, in the midst of my supposed prosperity, I lack the time to occupy myself seriously with two little matters which nevertheless are of considerable importance: my family and my affairs.
I am no expert in what these people call politeness, soon you will know more about it than I; still, the boldness of your stare seemed to me to be scarcely polite.'
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