Sentence examples for in courteous from inspiring English sources

The councel pleads, in courteous drone,.

Instead they stand in courteous lines on sidewalks, where crowds look disappointingly skimpy.

The program was completed by an improvisational duet for Ms. Gross and Sally Silvers, who shared the stage in courteous companionability.

Carlyle and Germaine were married the following summer, and Germaine chose Fred to be his best man, perhaps in courteous symmetry with Betsy, the matron of honor, or something like brotherly love.

By Morris Bishop The New Yorker, May 16, 1936 P. 26 The councel pleads, in courteous drone, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Larissa MacFarquhar By Ceridwen Dovey By Jia Tolentino.

If we deny the children of our newest neighbors the places in higher education, places that, by their determination, intelligence, and discipline, they've earned, they'll unlikely become skilled in deliberation -- in courteous, magnanimous contestation.

Fox is described by Ellwood as "graceful in countenance, manly in personage, grave in gesture, courteous in conversation".

Self-effacing, formal in bearing and courteous in an old-fashioned way, Mr. McGraw seemed an unlikely candidate to climb to the top of the corporate ladder.

But we believe that it is our obligation to find out, in a courteous and considerate way, whether they are interested in speaking about what happened.

Hilka Klinkenberg Hilka Klinkenberg, who is the president of Etiquette International, based in New York, agrees that when executives use technology in a courteous fashion it's not just a matter of minding their P's and Q's.

Do you not see me?" "Come back in ten minutes," my lover said to the waiter in his courteous, deep-voiced way.