Sentence examples for polite ritual from inspiring English sources
The polite ritual of answering the door and inviting a guest into your house relies on certain fixed phrases in English: "Won't you come in?" "Make yourself at home".
Her short story, The Debutante – in which the young narrator of the story, about to have a ball held for her, swaps places with a hyena, with gruesome consequences – gives a sense of her absolute hatred of the tropes of upper-class life (and also, perhaps, of the nastiness and even violence veiled beneath manners and polite rituals).
It is not quite the British class system, with its coded insults and surface-polite rituals.
Making politics polite again.
The first public performance of the polite Parisian day was the toilette – a ritual public dressing instituted by Louis XIV (1638-1715) and his mother Anne of Austria (1601-1666).
The polite chatter momentarily gave way to the brisk ritual of book-signing.
Inside, text-messaging teenagers and polite pensioners count the seconds to the interval and the ritual stampede for ice-cream as the Swansea Little Theatre Company trots through another performance of Thomas's signature work, Under Milk Wood.
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.
The adversaries, white and black, stood side by side, with Mr. Sherriffs on one side and the squatters on the other, with everyone smiling their polite good mornings in the awkward detente that has become an accepted daily ritual.
WHILE most actors cultivate a polite illusion of intimacy when facing the news media, Christian Bale has no problem exposing the celebrity interview for exactly what he thinks it is: a quaint ritual, a professional duty, a business transaction.
