Sentence examples for polite remarks from inspiring English sources

It took place against a backdrop of partisan tensions that were evident despite today's formal and polite remarks.

Voiceovers and photographs were meant to convey Mr. Pataki's true thoughts (mostly, his distaste for reporters' questions) as he was serving up polite remarks for public consumption.

Never before, despite the polite remarks about their work to which writers become relatively accustomed, had I met someone who had actually given up his job - and a damn good job at that - because of me.

In a statement after the hearing at London's High Court he said: "Something has poisoned the atmosphere in Britain, where an honest man like me can be punished for making perfectly polite remarks about the importance of marriage.

But under the polite remarks we were both plotting our next round.

Patients often ask me, "Where do you come from, India or Pakistan?" This is usually followed by polite remarks, "I have always wanted to visit India," or "I love Indian food".

"Austen might have eviscerated the egotistical (if brilliant) Naipaul with a single excessively polite remark, but I doubt she'd have Tweeted it," Ayelet Waldman wrote in an e-mail.

In all probability, this was Her Majesty's preferred grub the same way that "Home on the Range" was Franklin Roosevelt's favorite song: once, long ago, she had made a polite remark, and now she was stuck with the thing for the rest of her life.

We flounder through a blow‐by‐blow ac count of the Creek‐Cherokee boundary dispute, right down to the flat rock at the corner of somebody's farm; and through all the procedural mumbo‐jum bo of tribal council meetings with motions, secondings, pro posals and counter‐proposals; amendments to amendments, and the adversaries' polite opening remarks.

After I had talked about the British theatre's oppositional tradition, two French delegates treated my remarks with polite condescension.

Trump proceeded to read out the remarks to polite applause, although he failed to repeat the inflammatory words he had used when he blamed "both sides".