Sentence examples for polite behaviour from inspiring English sources

Besides, Congress should try to avoid legislating polite behaviour.

Children attending Montessori schools benefit from an atmosphere which promotes calm, polite behaviour modelled by the adults.

The rules around etiquette vary around the world and what is regarded as polite behaviour in one country may be seen as highly offensive in another.

I was taken aback, on first being elected to Parliament, by the casual rudeness of members of the public towards me, as if my new status somehow placed me outside the normal protection of polite behaviour.

Lenina doesn't see why she shouldn't have sex with anyone she likes whenever the occasion offers, as to do so is merely polite behaviour and not to do so is selfish.

According to the GSP "a speaker communicates meanings which place (a) a high value on what relates to the other person (typically the addressee), and (b) a low value on what relates to the speaker".But plenty of so-called polite behaviour in real life is anything but.

And although today she's on her politest behaviour, there is a goofy, fidgety energy about her, a curious combination of steely and shy".

Whereas her siblings followed her mother's insistence on polite, "ladylike" behaviour, and settled close to the Boston neighbourhood in which they were raised, she sought escape.

So complicated, in fact, that you could complete your essential precis of Suburbicon without even mentioning the even grimmer subplot playing out next door – where the newly arrived African American Meyers family, despite their unimpeachably polite, neighbourly behaviour, is terrorised by a growing local mob of white supremacists.

However, it is important to observe that, as is the case with many literary traditions, the origins of this Arabic term in the premodern period lie in the realms of correct behaviour ("polite letters").

It also affected the tone of the date completely; probably wanting to appear innocent and trustworthy, my dates were all on exceptionally polite and good behaviour from the moment we met, and a thick air of apprehension coloured the atmosphere as we wasted time making small talk before the main event.