He was modest and polite.
As a man, he was modest and polite.
Unlike most top Russian managers, he is accessible, modest and polite.
The youth revolution in Vietnam remains a modest and polite one.
"Modest" and "polite" are the kind of words people use about him.
"On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families" is also modest — and polite — in its ambitions.
Modest, thoughtful and polite, Cilic thinks he has "a long way to go" before he wins a Grand Slam title.
Norrell's term for this is "fox," and he says of the 25-year-old Washington, "He had long since separated the inner Booker, the young man with big ambitions and independent intelligence, from Booker T. Washington, the public person known as a capable mulatto, clearheaded and modest, sensible and polite, a Negro who did not give offense".
Unlike Gingrich, he is calm, modest, and unfailingly polite.
They are easy to pick out, local residents say, by their dark suits and modest hemlines, polite manners and clean-cut lifestyle; Mormons adhere to a strict moral code that prohibits gambling, smoking, alcohol, coffee and tea, among other things.
In person, she's polite, modest and self-deprecating.
