Sentence examples for etiquette problems from inspiring English sources
Other unfortunately surviving etiquette problems he mentions include checking mail when in company, monitoring what others are eating, grooming in public and joking about disabilities.
And while he's not the first modern English novelist to be compared to Nabokov, he's almost certainly the first Booker Prize winner to have written a piece on the etiquette problems of dealing with a belligerent, suitcase-raiding pig in Tennessee, as he did for this magazine in 1999.
But the work of his company, BlueLinx, is getting noticed as one of several attempts to solve the etiquette problems associated with the shrill rings, tortured electronic melodies, distracted multi-taskers and loud-mouth talkers that seem to accompany the addictive convenience of cell phones.
Beyond the drawbacks of sending our critical communication into closed, proprietary systems, there are serious behavioral and etiquette problems that arise when replacing an asynchronous communication channel like email with a synchronous one like chat or instant messaging.
Nobody said anything about the little etiquette problem.
"Blatant greed," she'll tell you fiercely, "is the No. 1 etiquette problem today".
Two years ago "Thank You for Stopping" by Jack Handey described a less genteel etiquette problem: what to do upon finding the author unconscious by the side of a road.
The media is now eulogizing this harsh and divisive figure, often in rosy terms, which presents her critics with an etiquette problem which Glenn Greenwald has pondered twice -- first after Christopher Hitchens' death, and now after Thatcher's.
PERRY GARFINKEL CELLPHONE SILENCE IS GOLDEN Not surprisingly, Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of the etiquette expert Emily Post, has problems with high-tech devices when they're used impolitely.
This is not just a problem with mobile phones, it's a problem with etiquette in general.
But when the women met yesterday there was no bitterness, merely a problem of etiquette.
