Sentence examples for exaggerated courtesy from inspiring English sources
People were driving, slowly and with exaggerated courtesy because there were no traffic lights.
And the exaggerated courtesy gradually peels off, like a badly glued toupee, to reveal the simmering grudges that lurk below the civilised facade.
He treated him with exaggerated courtesy, just as Blair used to do – and for the same reason: in order to render Skinner harmless.
He motioned me forward again with the exaggerated courtesy some drunk men assume, which can precede, the thought even in my excitement was never far, equally exaggerated outbursts of rage.
There was also some chemistry in New York in January between the Security Council and Mr. Helms and his committee members, many of them Senate veterans accustomed to the traditional, even exaggerated courtesies of earlier, less partisan years in Congress.
The courtesy is exaggerated, but not to the extent of satirising his enterprise or his guest: "It is the fair acceptance, sir, creates/ The entertainment perfect, not the cates".
With exaggerated bravado, they sing "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," Toby Keith's anthem of 9/11 payback, which threatens righteous whuppings for America's enemies: "And it feels like the whole wide world is raining down on you".
But these are exaggerated.
He exaggerated only slightly.
An exaggerated comparison?
