Sentence examples for a courteousness from inspiring English sources

"Excuse me, please," I said, dredging up a courteousness I really didn't feel.

There's a courteousness about the Last Shadow Puppets, from Turner and sidekick Miles Kane's suited-and-booted dress code (a change from the Monkeys' worn-out jeans scruffiness).

But an old-fashioned courteousness lay behind their coolly modern appearance; they belonged to a very different class from the Tibetans I had seen in the night clubs near the Potala Palace on my previous visit.

As we headed down the street, a mixture of homes and shops, Ahsin made a great display of courteousness to the stall keepers.

Mr. Askegard possesses an almost old-fashioned courteousness as well as what appears to be an unfailingly affable demeanor.

Her courteousness is played as a joke.

Despite his father's renown for quiet courteousness, Mr. Shawn said a certain theatricality ran in the family: his grandfather Benjamin W. Chon worked as a street peddler and actor; his father had attempted a career as a composer; one of his uncles wrote advertising jingles, and another was a professional songwriter.

Whenever I whine about the deteriorated observance of courteousness, our mannerism as a community and wonder if this is to be blamed on the movies or our upbringing, I get nowhere.

So despite meetings and vows of courteousness among the Democrats, it seems to have become a test of wills over who will get to defend that record.

But it is a wave of tourists from China that explains the new services and tourist-friendly attitudes here, down to the courteousness at Vladivostok's newly renovated international air terminal.

I would also like to thank Mr Gordon Chang for his courteousness and insightful views on the subject, and to our other special participants.