Sentence examples for polite interest from inspiring English sources

The Chinese show polite interest, but have given no commitment.

At least the woman was taking a polite interest.

Asked about the deadline, Pyongyang residents expressed mild surprise and polite interest.

Most, dressed in their chef's whites, maintained polite interest and took a few notes.

Only large, round numbers are mentioned, and one also learns that, as at auctions, it is dangerous to express polite interest.

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have been holding their spring meetings in Washington since 1975, causing little but polite interest.

Don't stare at her breasts, be polite, be interested.

Those who deal with him regularly describe him as an accessible, polite athlete whose interest in promoting M.L.S. is genuine.

Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.

One vendor mistakes my mother's polite smile for interest and clings to her arm, futilely showing off the intricacies of a T-shirt design.

But the next day she planted a question of her own with a reporter so that she could utter another polite refusal of interest.