Sentence examples for overly polite from inspiring English sources

Those first few hours of Saturday served as a perfect metaphor for the NDP's utterly botched shot at the throne in October: overly polite and politically vacuous.

The Yankees were their overly polite hosts.

These lyrics are far more wry and textured than the group's arrangements, which veer toward overly polite.

Part of the problem — an overly polite, somewhat staid quality — is endemic to the Frick's concert series.

More of this would be welcome on this overly polite album: this band once thrived on such abandon.

The Rev., like many of her black neighbors was overly polite to her, which made her want to shake them.

Are they being too polite or overly apologetic?

Zanuck's pictures often suffered from pretentious seriousness, mawkish sentiment, and an overly-polite approach to subject matter that demanded earthy realism.

The meeting with his brother, Pere, did not prove overly productive – a polite "let's talk in six months time" was the reply – nor was the ambitious attempt enough to save Nerlinger's job.

It has the kids sitting neatly in their chairs, talking with some adult, in a sarcastic, overly sophisticated but polite way – a concoction that bears no resemblance to an actual kid," he explains.

He speaks with scientific preciseness, and is overly apologetic and polite to a fault.