Sentence examples for anything but polite from inspiring English sources

Helen Rice, who described herself as a liberal Democrat, said Kavanaugh was "never anything but polite and respectful" as a friend, despite their political differences.

And in this case, the discourse has been anything but polite.

Not that Dr. Richards, 72 and still practicing, is ever anything but polite.

THE job is largely ceremonial but the rumpus over how to fill it has been anything but polite.

I have never known him to be anything but polite, kind, considerate and, quite often, very funny.

If he was just messing with me, he was doing it with admirable tenacity, never once raising his voice, never being anything but polite and calm.

As can be discerned from the previous description, the 1945 campaign was anything but genteel and polite.

"Since Miss Audrey Hepburn has never played any part that has suggested she was anything but pure, polite and possibly a princess," said one desperate press release, "a hard look at Miss Golightly is in order".

And how many times have we all asked our children to "smile and say hello politely" when they seem to feel anything but smiley and polite?

But there has never been anything quite like the strained but polite scene yesterday as Senator Jesse Helms sat in the council chamber and warned that the United States would withdraw if the U.N. sought "to impose its presumed authority on the American people without their consent". Several members of the Security Council disputed Mr. Helms, but with utmost diplomacy.

But there has never been anything quite like the strained but polite scene yesterday as Senator Jesse Helms sat in the council chamber and warned that the United States would withdraw if the U.N. sought "to impose its presumed authority on the American people without their consent".