Sentence examples for normally polite from inspiring English sources

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With the politicking already growing shrill, the next hundred days promise to be unusually rowdy by the normally polite, albeit quietly cut-throat, standards of Iranian politics.It is true that the democratic elements of Iran's peculiar system, which seeks to represent both God and man, are tightly constrained.

This is why there are loos everywhere, and why normally polite people break off conversations abruptly and start to run.

On hearing this, a normally "polite and reserved" Japanese professor felt moved to protest: "Your universities – they will follow British business model?

Normally polite and serene establishment types now pound the table in anger, and in full view of foreigners, over Mr. Hatoyama's incompetence and deride the D.P.J., a coalition of socialist and liberal politicians who through their own ineptness once ensured that Japan would be forever seen as a one-party democracy.

In June, the Business Roundtable chairman and Verizon chief executive Ivan Seidenberg gave a speech so rank with self-victimization — he claimed that government was "reaching into virtually every sector of economic life" — that the normally polite Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein reviled him as "a corporate hack" peddling "much-discredited country-club nonsense".

Even the commission's president, the normally polite Loretta Lynch, chastised a lawyer from Southern California Edison when he told her that the utility had already sent out letters to consumers regarding a potential increase, a notice not approved by the commission.

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By winning only 30 seats less than half of the Liberals 70 out of the total 125 ridings it was their worst showing since the 1970s, and so brutal that the normally-polite live CBC Radio coverage called it "humiliating".

He strode past her without acknowledging her, which she felt was "strange", as he was normally so polite.

When even the Canadians, normally drearily polite, get colorfully steamed at us, we know the rest of the world is apopleptic.

He said he was normally "quite polite" but was "raging" after officers put him in a police van.

The walking tours that gather outside Patchin Place's gate do not bother Dr. Elliot and Dr. Menolascino, who both said the groups are normally small and polite.

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