To address this, the item should be expressed more politely, e.g. "Many people behave differently from what they really are" to adequately reflect the original wording of "not understanding complexity and variety of others' behavior".
Now it gives us a long-overdue portrait of Mr. Chatham, "An Angel Moves Too Fast to See: Selected Works, 1971-89," in which his loud, crashing yet lyrical and never chaotic music perfectly expresses his politely exuberant, reluctant-rocker personality.
The school's-out mood of the first few nights – inevitably hard to sustain over eight weeks – was helped by packed houses (on the nights I attended), the silent attention of some 6,000 people, the audible gasps from those entering the Royal Albert Hall for the first time or reacquainting themselves, and never mind the, to express it politely, eccentric acoustic.
But strong feelings only slightly more politely expressed are commonplace.
When I mailed copies to friends for praise, they politely expressed their dismay.
Housing manager Adrian Smith politely expressed some relatively mild views on same-sex religious marriage on his Facebook page, which also identified him as an employee of Trafford Housing Trust.
"I politely expressed my thanks for being considered and explained I remained committed to journalism (just as I did when the papers reported a long time ago that I'd been approached to work for 'the other side'," he says.
She recalled: "Reactions to the programme ranged from politely expressed disbelief to outraged questions on the local education committee... Our belief in the programme and its effects on the participants kept us going".
And it has probably ensured that Mr Muralitharan's great achievements do not receive quite the fulsome international acclaim that they deserve.Quite rightly, this irritates Sri Lanka's Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims more than can be politely expressed.
Lau said she had been encouraged by the brief conversation during which she and her colleagues "bluntly but politely" expressed their anger over issues including China's meddling in Hong Kong's affairs, its refusal to grant democratic concessions and its alleged kidnapping of a bookseller who specialised in books criticising the Communist party elite.
