I used to quite like the idea of zooming in and out of traffic quite quickly, but when you get a decent car and kids in the back, you become more courteous.
Now that he is back as London's first elected mayor, Mr. Livingstone has behaved so decorously and been seen hobnobbing with government officials and royalty so publicly that voters who were expecting a replay of his bad boy antics fear that he has become downright courteous.
The next time he goes up to you and your friends, see if he becomes extra courteous to them and goes out of his way to be nice to them.
The secretary-general of the prefecture of the Gironde, as he became in 1942, proved courteous and pleasant, an admirable officer of the Vichy regime that had been set up, in ostensible neutrality, to govern France alongside the Nazis.
By 9 P.M. the place is close to empty, and the service — at first efficient and courteous — becomes languorous and offhand.
There was a superficiality to the reunion parties, the food wasn't very good -- it never is on American campuses -- and it became quickly clear that the courteous young students who served as guides for the occasion had little cognisance with the past I'd experienced, and even less curiosity about it.
His successor as managing director of what became Conran Associates, David Salter, said Fitch was "always kind, courteous and relaxed in both victory and defeat".
Humph, always courteous but a little aloof in his early days, became much more relaxed and friendly in his later years, and that most moderate of men had even been known to down the occasional Irish whiskey.
Erasmus published a fairly courteous reply the same year (1522), and eventually the two men became rather friendly.
Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who recently became the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has long been known as a gentle and courteous adversary of the Republicans.
