Sentence examples for polite mode from inspiring English sources
If you find the phone intimidating at the best of times, improving your answering technique will help to boost your confidence because you only have to switch into a polite mode and follow the routine to overcome those initial nerves.
For a few seconds I put the two phones together to let the spinmeisters hear each other – but then my courage deserted me and we all went back to polite BBC mode.
Making politics polite again.
Afterward, we hastily return to our default mode of polite distance.
Happily on a drizzly Wednesday morning in south London Akinfenwa is as yet not in beast mode, instead lingering in polite and articulate interview mode (later he would briefly slip into semi-beast mode for the benefit of the Guardian snapper, flexing his pre-flexed muscles to an ever greater scale and politely adopting a slightly cross expression).
Use this mode with close friends and children; it is not commonly used in polite conversation with people you don't know well unless you want to insult them.
"He was very polite, always polite".
