Still, good-naturedly, Patrick Ewing, all of 15 or 16, day after day accepted my polite challenge.
NEW YORK — It is a truth universally acknowledged that a dictator who wants to be accepted by polite Western society should look for a charming, glamorous wife.
By the time Obama met Ayers, the former radical and onetime fugitive had been accepted into polite Chicago society and had been reborn as an education expert, eventually working as an informal adviser to Mayor Daley.
The very fact that we're having this debate suggests that beards are still not fully accepted in polite society: Pogonophobia is real, as the Beard Liberation Front continues to point out.
I know how I would feel if I was bombarded with long screeds denouncing Jewish faith and customs as sinister, alien, backward or bonkers, just as I know how I would feel if I were told Jews need to change their ways if they are to be accepted into polite society.
Challenges: Lack of business operations experience and the struggle of getting California chardonnay accepted into polite company once again.
I accept his polite reply, but know that there must be more to it.The conversation eventually turns to mergers and acquisitions in Japan.
Trump, whose luxuriant thatch could surely stand in for a stretch of gorse in the heavy rough off the long 14th should he be shy of the odd acre, refuses to accept a polite 'no'no
Lo: "And you need to learn how to accept a polite rejection".
The old-style saloons disappeared; drinking at home became much more frequent; drinking among women, who had previously found saloon culture uncongenial, indeed hostile, became more common; drinking became regularised, normalised, and eventually an accepted part of "polite" society – by the 1950s cocktails were seen as the height of civilisation in many middle-class homes.
