Haywood says she would advise her clients to be discreet if they wanted to ask for cash, making the request a short but polite sentence on the invitation or leaving it to be found on the couple's wedding website.
"My first sentence in the meeting with Madam Chancellor was: 'If you invite somebody to your homeland, you do not send them for a lunch to your neighbours.' Very polite sentence, isn't it?" says Zeman, speaking English in disarmingly avuncular tones belying his uncompromising opinions.
Nothing trashy, but a polite sentence that reflects how you really feel.
It's no wonder this earnest 22-year-old, impeccably polite though his sentences are littered with swearwords, is curious about being treated differently.
Making politics polite again.
This Kakashi was designed as a laid back but very skilled ninja that ended his sentences with the polite "de gozaru" in the Japanese versions of the series.
Buonomano describes a famous experiment by the psychologist John Bargh and colleagues in which subjects who unscrambled lists of words that yielded sentences about politeness, like "They usually encourage her," were later more polite toward a lab assistant than were subjects who generated sentences related to rudeness.
Improbably polite, reflective and reluctant to sentence Jesus to death (the historical Pilate was in fact brutal and quick-tempered), Pilate is portrayed as a patient questioner of this charismatic itinerant preacher.
Liverpool's reliance on his goals in this critical season, joining a team beaten 6-1 on their last Premier League outing, or Roy Keane's suggestion that training is not his forte, are also swatted aside with a polite smile and a brief sentence from the laid-back Belgium international.
Contrary to stereotype, they were hardly feral: well turned-out, and fairly polite, they even issued the odd sentence that revealed traces of social conservatism.
