Sentence examples for polite interaction from inspiring English sources

As an electricity outage disrupts the proceedings, polite interaction gradually disintegrates into utter sadness and disconnection.

I wasn't surprised to hear that, having grown up in a family where conversation is more of a competitive sport than a polite interaction.

His endlessly polite interactions with his predator governors are confusing his constituents.

Those basic rules we've learned about polite interactions — especially when managers are addressing their subordinates — seem to have been lost when we enter the office.

All of us have seen it and felt it in a variety of small and large ways: in gentler, politer interactions with friends and strangers; in an outpouring of charitable giving and volunteer activity; in tableaux of fellowship among political and civic leaders.

Inside the Met, the usual distant and polite museumgoer interactions prevail.

I just need polite social interactions with my critics or people who may potentially become my critics.

This is a major score for the touchy-feely team in the Parent Wars that boil under the surface of so much forcedly polite brunch table interaction (Do you breast-feed? How much? Where? Reject all trans fats? Brush your hair? Ever?) I have a reputation now for being against breast-feeding, pro-separation, pro-makeup and pretty mean-spirited, generally.

And like Maggie, Trish and I had had no interaction beyond polite conversations about our kids and the weather -- yet the fact that both Maggie and Trish had unfriended me in the same week let me know they'd had some sort of talk about me and together decided to give me the big Facebook heave ho.

Social interactions require polite conversation.

Doctor Thorne opens with a series of polite, rather formal social interactions much in the style of Jane Austen.