Sentence examples for polite talk from inspiring English sources

He had no time for polite talk.

"We had small, polite talk," she recalled.

There was polite talk: "It's been unnecessarily unpleasant," a man in a Hawaiian shirt said.

Any white confused by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s polite talk need only listen to Mr. Armstrong, The Amsterdam News declared.

But polite talk paled in comparison with the chance for a horse-crazed volunteer to get an autograph from Darren M. Chiacchia, a handsome rider who was competing on seven horses, or to gossip about what happened to him on the cross-country course.

Add to that NPR and PBS, and there's actually plenty of polite talk out there.

An hour in King's company could easily be mistaken for a positivity workshop: Anita is reserved and says very little but the Strother twins are supernaturally polite, talking a lot about fulfilment and self-expression as their motivation.

"Maya," I said, crouching down at her level, looking into her eyes, "very nice to meet you". "Nice to meet you too," she said, in that trained, polite, talking-to-adults good girl voice.

Watch how a friend (who seems generally polite) talks to their parents.

In addition, they might well suffer abuse (mild in comparison to football, but abuse all the same) from the paying public, before being collared for less-than-polite talks with losing coaches keen to deflect attention from the poor performance of their teams.

It's not polite to talk about money.