Sentence examples for essentially polite from inspiring English sources

My home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy!" — the tone had been essentially polite.

These are "essentially polite letters to landlords asking them to make improvements" – no fine, no arrest, no censure.

Essentially a polite version of what life would be like if society ever breaks down and there's no electricity.

He is essentially a polite man, anxious to please, and he has a quick, warm smile and a trust in people that might seem naïve in a less experienced person.

He is, essentially, a polite person -- a sweetheart, actually -- raised not on the tough streets of San Juan or New York but in the tobacco fields of Ciales, a jewel-like Puerto Rican mountain town.

Freese summed all this up with a Finnish saying that is, essentially, a less polite version of our own "lipstick on a pig".

Making politics polite again.

And yet, here, beneath this pump's clever mix of media is a d'Orsay, essentially, that is extremely polite and pretty on the foot; a beautiful reconciliation between then and now.

So when Liza Minnelli batted her enormous butterfly wings of eyelashes at us, and in the politest voice essentially called us a child, we simply smiled.

That drama begins when Philip Burton, a schoolteacher, takes Richard Jenkins, a Welsh coal miner's young son, under his wing and teaches him to act, to behave civilly in polite society and essentially to speak English.

It is a much less polite document -- essentially a battle plan: a call for a counter-lobby as wealthy and relentless as the National Rifle Association.