Sentence examples for polite formality from inspiring English sources

Despite her folksy approach, the response of those who meet her for the first time is often polite formality, not the warmer, more familiar type of exchange that voters tend to have with Mr. Brown.

Since India and Pakistan's summit meeting ended on Monday without agreement -- and without even the polite formality of a public handshake -- the two nuclear rivals have been alternately upbeat and downcast about each other and their future relations.

In February, the two Berglunds went door to door along the street one final time, taking leave with polite formality, Walter asking after everybody's children and conveying his very best wishes for each of them, Patty saying little but looking strangely youthful again, like the girl who'd pushed her stroller down the street before the neighborhood was even a neighborhood.

It suggests that Pakistani anger with the US is so intense that it will not even indulge in the usual polite formalities of public diplomacy and speech making about the need for regional peace.

The size and enthusiasm of the crowds was particularly striking because Vietnam's leaders treated the president with polite but distant formality, as if they were still unsure about how far they wanted to take this new opening with a former enemy.

Set in its own mad, enclosed world, a court full of queens and clowns where formality and polite tea-drinking disguises something visceral and vicious, the show depicts five women and four men engaged in a constantly shifting dance of desire.

Having seen to the formalities, the polite questions, and having insisted that he came only to see after my health, he settled into silence.

Different settings require different standards of formality, and those standards often define what is polite and what is not.

In the 11th Arrondissement, a part of Paris once thick with artisans' ateliers and now home to food-loving bourgeois-bohemians, Septime, which opened in April, is both visually refined and relaxed, with a polite, house-party-in-the-country style hospitality that surprises Parisians accustomed to more formality.

Onto this religious diversity is grafted a layer of British formality and good manners resulting across the country in a disposition that is as polite as is distinctive.

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