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Not to ask an impolite question or anything, but what took so long?
I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn't even ask myself.
I was confronted and screamed at by Jonathan Alter, the longtime Newsweek correspondent, outside a restaurant in Charlotte, because my reporter dared ask an impolite question of the president.
When I'm asked that degrading, yet common and impolite question, "What are you?" I know what they're really asking is not "Who are you?" but, "What made you that color?" The idea of having my father mistaken for a stranger wasn't something that really registered with me until I was older.
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They allow you to cut through the awkwardness and ask impolite questions.
But she remains decorously mum about most personal issues, and it is her tendency toward undersharing that compels readers to parse her photos for clues to where she lives and to ask her borderline impolite questions.
Don't be discouraged if an impolite user calls your questions stupid - The open nature of the Internet unfortunately gives these kind of people more or less free reign to be jerks, but there are far, far more kind and helpful people out there than the others.
An ominous booing arose, but he kept his cool, skillfully turning the issue of impolite concert behavior into a question of family pride.
It is almost as if Hollinghurst, sympathetic to Johnny's introverted awkwardness and wanting him to flourish on his own terms, believes the question to be impolite.
Quite why institutions that exist to shore up their pupils' advantages should bother with the lower orders is a question apparently too impolite to ask, but a couple of recent news stories highlight what a mess this branch of policy is becoming.
I said, "You can't remember whether you discussed it or you can't remember the details?" He said, "I can't remember whether or not I know a better way to dissuade you from your reiteration of that question without seeming impolite".
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