What starts as a polite inquiry becomes a polite inquiry with an increasingly rapid pulse, as Philip begins to interview various people who knew the De Bourgh-Snows.
When I'm frightened, I become excessively polite.
The other arguments that used to be used to justify the war have become a polite after-cough.
And the senior class valedictorian, Herbert Ruth, a troublemaker when he arrived, may never have become the polite, well-behaved young man he is today.
Cemil Oter, leader of the powerful Jirki tribe, which has fought on the side of the army against the PKK, suggests that Turkish rule over Semdinli has become a polite fiction.
Similarly, the trio have to be careful not to move just because the script tells them to: "You don't want to become a polite stage horse," says Olié.
It's hardly surprising that in a climate in which denouncing "Islamists" has become the polite way to attack Muslims, and a literary figure such as Martin Amis can rant about the threat to Europe from the Muslim birthrate and still be treated with respect, public opinion has become inflamed.
What I struggle with (which, like the verb " to find problematic", has become the polite way to say "loathe") is the way that mobster movies invite us to believe that they are deeply meaningful in a way that excuses the heroic portrayal of their gratuitous, male-centered violence.
