Sentence examples for of courteous from inspiring English sources

"Unimpressed" is actually too weak a word; his face was a steel plate of courteous indifference.

A succession of courteous robotic voices led me to an equally courteous human.

Moments like that, she said, underscore the essentiality of leases that impose a modicum of courteous behavior on residents.

We are in a land of courteous lawmen and soulful outlaws, skinny women in plain dresses and squinty-eyed killers in black hats.

First impressions are of the kind of courteous, measured character you'd find in an Anita Brookner novel - attributes which make the life she leads all the more incongruous.

New York City, one of the most Democratic places in the country, accepted the role of courteous host when it invited the Republicans to come.

It was six years since she had sent the first of tens of thousands of hopeful, courteous but determined emails with such ends in mind.

Yet blackmail is not part of the armoury of this courteous economics professor.Even some of Mr Monti's ministers accept privately that one explanation for the widening bond spread is a gradual loss of the government's reforming momentum.

When I think of "manners," I think of the qualities of being courteous, polite, not talking with food in my mouth, and opening the car door for Evie.

"If you throw a glance at the boys of any public or secondary school you find them up to the age of 13 full of curiosity, courteous, animated by high and good spirits," he said.

It was as if the drawings were not just a record of James's youthful profile but also of the courteous nobleman Balthus's revelation of something within himself, resulting from James's intrusion into his solitary existence.