Well, there you have it: When he's not lecturing from an ice cream tub, trying to take down his archnemesis Jeff Bezos, or using brilliant visual aids on the Senate floor, Bernie Sanders is saving lives, one polite request at a time.
For him to say, even grudgingly, one polite word.
"You're the man, Edwyn," shouts a fan during the tuning-up break, to which Collins responds as if there were only one polite and natural way: "Thank you.
So: what the fuck!" Talking to the Coens can feel like speaking to one polite hybrid brother, and, at other times, like talking to a whole host of them.
One polite refusal came in this way: "I would probably have interesting and useful things to say, but I no longer have even a scintilla of trust that any of it would be taken at face value".
"Not ideal" is certainly one, polite, way of putting it.
"Wait and send one polite, short one as opposed to getting into that cycle where you're getting madder and madder".
I can't recall the details -- vague small talk -- but she responded to each one with a polite, brief answer and smile before returning to her book.
One was polite, somewhat reserved, and didn't go in for small talk.
Their attitude toward the banking excesses has been one of polite disdain as they turned down opportunity after opportunity to buy into the American investment banking market.
