From his stillness she realizes she'd overinterpreted a polite query as to whether she was sleepy.
Still they hold their signs aloft – American flags, a detailed depiction of the Springsteen family restaurant not far from the city, and song requests for Rosalita and I'm Goin Down and the polite query "Can I dance with Stevie?" The mood, even rain-soaked, even drenched, is rapturous.
Our e-mail content spiraled from polite queries to the sort of mischievous missives we passed in class.
The trip included visits to a children's clinic, a new subdivision and a mortgage center, all beneficiaries of the "national projects". He basked in the praise of the officials he met, but he also faced polite queries on the need for more financing and on certain unintended consequences of the national-project policy.
By John Cassidy April 6, 2010 Watching Tiger Woods effortlessly handling the polite queries from golf reporters at his meticulously staged press conference in Augusta yesterday, I was reminded of a story about the English soccer team at the 1986 soccer World Cup, which took place in Mexico.
So when we politely query, "Are there any other options to consider?" instead of bluntly stating the fact that "I don't like your idea," it's because we're just too polite.
No discussion, no debate, at most a polite royal query or two: the formal granting of the sovereign's approval to business already done and dusted by ministers, committees, government departments.
Several analysts tried to be polite in their queries, but David Bailey from Goldman Sachs took a more hard-nosed approach.
It took a minute for anyone to speak up, and even then, the queries were polite to the point of apologetic.
As you may have guessed, all these DNS queries are polite, well-mannered exchanges carried out through IP packets, all of which need to be routed across the Internet.
In answering Laetitia's queries, Queeney is polite but wary; as it happens, Queeney regards Johnson's associates as a bunch of dolts and lunatics.
