Sentence examples for lingering polite from inspiring English sources
These were days of ascendency for Bury, and he went to Glyndebourne, initially in the face of a lingering, polite anxiety about his "lack of taste".
Happily on a drizzly Wednesday morning in south London Akinfenwa is as yet not in beast mode, instead lingering in polite and articulate interview mode (later he would briefly slip into semi-beast mode for the benefit of the Guardian snapper, flexing his pre-flexed muscles to an ever greater scale and politely adopting a slightly cross expression).
In California, Laura Brown spontaneously reaches out to Kitty with a lingering kiss that is more than polite.
For the black professional, there's always the lingering doubt as to whether their acceptance in "polite society" is genuine.
There's that same balance of polite folks going about their small-town business, with their Minnesotan "oh yah", "you betcha" quirks to remind us where we are, punctuated by extreme violence and some lingering shots of the snowy expanses.
But Franken was lingering.
Some lingering bitterness there.
Lingering election impact.
