Sentence examples for even politeness from inspiring English sources

"I won't allow you to be my b***hes, it's not even politeness," he said.

What is so funny is the utter calm, even politeness, of the death figure.

Indeed, Twitter challenges in its very structure previous assumptions of hierarchical, vertical communication, and does facilitate and encourage interactions (@ replies, mentions, direct messages) between strangers that defy notions of proximity, intimacy, closeness and even politeness.

The great recluse undoubtedly played footsie, too, with the many seekers-after-truth who showed up at the bottom of his drive over the years – though whether this is evidence of calculating hypocrisy, as they come to imply, rather than just confusion and even politeness is more questionable.

Her tone of even politeness was an immediate reminder of the most basic way in which she has been said to be an asset to Trump's campaign: she must have learned her manners somewhere, and perhaps something could be imputed from that about how her father treated people.

One of the movie's most persistent insights is that even politeness, from presumably enlightened individuals, can feel smothering and oppressive.

On the Tubes "mind the doors" and "all change" are unqualified by even minimal politeness.

Most of her neighbours and relatives think twice before revealing their Traveller background because experience has taught them the response is likely to be negative, even if politeness makes people attempt to conceal their suspicion.

He also found that once people are in power positions, those qualities too often take a back seat to self-entitlement, indifference to the plight of others, negative interruptions in conversation, and ignoring even basic politeness.

You can quibble about the "intolerably" part of the definition, but most of the conventioneers strike me as a pretty intolerant bunch, when it comes to giving the other sides' arguments the benefit of the doubt (or even common politeness).

Not even their natural politeness could silence their protests: rum with salt?