Sentence examples for polite question from inspiring English sources

It wasn't the most polite question; it was meant to poke and prod.

"Yes," she says bombastically, in response to a polite question about her own background, "my family was exceptional.

She shuffled and squirmed, by then wearing sneakers with her evening dress, as Mr. Handling asked a polite question of each actor.

Taking another man's hand, the dancer Rennie McDougall asked, "Is this O.K.?" Then he inserted his head into the man's armpit, his knee between the man's legs, repeating his polite question after each step.

Returning to the open day ritual, greeting prospective students and parents with a polite question about travel underlines the assumption that all students are looking to move away to study.

Hugh somehow, being English, holds it in when fed such corporate merde as: "We're on a journey to get it right", "care passionately… fully committed" and just asks another polite question with the merest twitch of irritability: me, I'd long since have leapt at them with a stout tarred rope.

They had asked Mitchell polite questions about himself and had politely supplied information about themselves in return.

But when a few German scholars, lawyers, and political figures in the audience rose to ask thoughtful but infinitely polite questions about the need for some international bodies (one man mentioned NATO, another the W.T.O ., Scalia brushed them off with the mocking contempt of a pro hockey fan.

A few asked polite questions.

He hosted the show for forty-three yeaskingsking polite questions in a plummy accent.

A few shareholders asked pointed but polite questions, but most supported Dimon.