Sentence examples for oddly polite from inspiring English sources
Asking "how y'all my balcony people doing?", he sounds oddly polite.
It is an oddly polite term — a euphemism — that conceals varying degrees of fear, loathing, and admiration.
It is an oddly polite term a euphemism that conceals varying degrees of fear, loathing, and admiration.
In plain, unsentimental prose Hersey reports the desperate experiences the six survivors undergo as they encounter women and children horribly burned by the atomic flash, newly blind men whose eyes had melted in the heat of the explosion, and everywhere the oddly polite appeals of the ever-formal Japanese trapped under the rubble of a flattened city.
Now I ask myself: 'Am I writing a new book because I want to, or because it's expected of me?'" Eco was a polite, if oddly formal interviewee ("May I be permitted to offer you another whisky?"); he preferred to call his English, spoken with a discernible American accent, "fluent pidgin".
When Marcereau chatted with him during court breaks, he found him oddly affable — low-key, disarmingly polite, with a sense of humor — and had to remind himself he was the enemy.
I try not to listen to him on the radio: he sounds so professional and oddly restrained, and it's strange hearing him being polite and not telling filthy jokes.
