Sentence examples for polite from from inspiring English sources

He uncoils himself, spry, polite, from the sofa, bends forwards as he talks.

Her first marriage ended in divorce; she adopted the surname Polite from a later relationship.

The questions were generally polite from Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Ms. Jewell's responses were for the most part noncommittal.

They separate the polite from the lazy – it takes effort to stand up, give a bit of eye contact and wobble your arm up and down.

The upside was the French waiters were too heat whacked to be rude, polite from persistent perspiration.

"That's What You Get for Being Polite", from The Jacksons' Destiny album, and two unreleased songs ("Why Can't I Be" and "Thank You for Life") used the chords before "The Girl Is Mine".

Whereas the French salon excluded politics from polite conversation, in the British coffee house politics was a main preoccupation.

At first it received only polite acknowledgment from political leaders.

The president was greeted by booming applause from Democrats and polite handshakes from Republicans.

Many more women than men told me they didn't weep at anything; I received more polite refusals from eminent women than from their male counterparts.

Both of these operas and others earned polite applause from audiences and indifferent shrugs from nearly everyone else.