Banty offered the polite solution for those in Ali's position: Ali calls to regretfully say she cannot come, and states the reason that her baby-sitter reneged on her.
Don't dwell on something your roommate did that annoyed you, just ask questions and offer a polite alternative solution.
Making politics polite again.
Virginia Kurilla, 47, a D.C. therapist, says that a lot of smokers deal with social murkiness not boldly, like our guest, but simply by smoking alone in their basements — a polite although solitary solution.
Since a visit to Harare in May failed to produce a solution, Mr. Mbeki has been largely silent, engaging in quiet and polite diplomacy, predicting a solution to the crisis will somehow emerge within a year.
However you handle it, know that as long as you are polite and offer a reasonable solution or alternative you are in the right here and you shouldn't feel intimidated.
Souter is polite and elegant he often frames possible solutions to a problem, rather than tearing apart others' arguments but he, too, speaks at length.
Smartphones and Google made the hunt for organizational alternatives somewhat easier, but it was after five, and most of those were closed, offered only polite recordings, or had no quick solution.
Souter is polite and elegant — he often frames possible solutions to a problem, rather than tearing apart others' arguments — but he, too, speaks at length.
If you believe that individual acts of meanness are the problem, then the solution is individual acts of kindness -- polite, respectful behavior, maybe even friendly outreach.
