Sentence examples for polite curiosity from inspiring English sources

Mr. McCartney was all polite curiosity about the ingredients used in making cheese.

I held on to the chicken and looked at it with polite curiosity.

We had our own guide, but were repeatedly overwhelmed (and sometimes slowed down) by the polite curiosity of strangers.

"This is he," Mather says, as Ferguson and the new employees look at him with polite curiosity.

What a tourist may consider polite curiosity about indigenous culture can seem to some here intrusive and even an attempt to gain sacred tribal wisdom.

He was speaking after Australia's first practice session under their new coach, Darren Lehmann, and there was much persistent, but polite curiosity about how it went.

For all his political intelligence and experience, his almost ludicrously boyish appearance, unpretentious affability and air of polite curiosity make him seem (and perhaps feel) even younger than he is.

"Three years ago, we were being treated with distant polite curiosity at private banking conferences, asked to speak right before lunch," said Keith Heddle, investment director at Stanley Gibbons, the world's oldest rare-stamp merchant.