Sentence examples for polite speech from inspiring English sources

In fact, as Richard Stengel magnificently demonstrates (do I overstate?), ingratiation has been a fundamental, perhaps an evolutionary aim of most social behavior and polite speech.

Alternately timid and aggressive, solemn, hormonal, posturing, helpless, Houellebecq tosses stones through the windows of European polite speech and attitudes, then runs away.

Polite speech level.

They use conversational but polite speech, and are voiced by human narrators.

These include the following: (1) Personalization: Use a conversational style, polite speech, and virtual coaches (Moreno et al. 2001).

Maybe Japan hasn't turned the corner — but the merger of two Japanese banks, LTCB and Sumitomo Trust, shows that someone in Tokyo is finally getting the message and that bandages and polite speech will not substitute for sutures and tourniquets.

In 1999, the Louisiana State Legislature passed a law referred to as the polite-speech or respect law, compelling children in kindergarten through fifth grade to address their teachers as "sir" or "ma'am," and to use Mr., Mrs., Ms. or Miss when calling them by name.

Similarly, in field work in a Malaysian village, the anthropologist L. A. Peter Gosling observed a Chinese shopkeeper who appeared to be considerably acculturated to Malay culture, and was scrupulously sensitive to Malays in every way, including the normal wearing of a sarong, quiet and polite Malay speech, and a humble and affable manner.

The centerpiece of Mr. Carter's visit was the polite but stern speech he delivered in Spanish on Tuesday night to a national television audience in Cuba.

I assume the Right is not actually feeling intimidated by a polite and respectful speech by the genteel Patrick Leahy, nor does it actually fear that John Roberts will be.

Respect for an acquaintance even one year older than oneself requires the use of a polite form of speech.