The bank directors wrote Mr. Case a courteous note, apologizing for any inconvenience they might be causing him, and outlining their plans.
So sure, send him $11,000 less that $9,000 — that is, $2,000 — along with a courteous note explaining how you arrived at that figure, the epistolary and financial equivalent of extending the hand of friendship.
If you think that you have not been treated fairly, please let me know, and we can do something with you on the air.Remnick to Mitchell Dear Mr. Mitchelll, Thanks for your courteous note.
Most of the pages were brief, intra-White House dispatches about small matters of state; or brisk, courteous notes, often with press clippings attached.
What emerges from the fragile documents is as dry as the pages themselves, the sterile, courteous notes from one justice to another — "Please join me," voicing support for a particular opinion.
School performance and being courteous were noted as key elements for future success.
Reserved and courteous, he was noted for his superior mannerisms, his smart, English-style clothes, and his championship in bridge at Ahmadabad's fashionable Gujarat Club.
If you donate your jigsaw puzzles to other persons or to charities, it is courteous to tape a note to the front of the box letting the recipient know that all the pieces are there, or if any are missing.
Mr. Clohessy, the director of the Survivors Network, was courteous but less diplomatic, noting in his speech that many of the bishops had transferred abusive priests from parish to parish and hired diocesan lawyers who he said had harassed victims who sued the church.
Your persona may be part of a culture that isn't noted for courteous behavior, but you can't use it as an excuse for behaving badly at events.
If Hollinghurst's previous novel, The Spell (1998), was the slightly embarrassing story of a last-ditch, middle-aged dalliance with ecstasy, The Line of Beauty is a sour celebration of the drug that kept the economy booming: "Nick loved the etiquette of the thing, the chopping with a credit card, the passing of the rolled note, the procedure courteous and dry, 'all done with money', as Wani said".
