Sentence examples for polite to ask from inspiring English sources

Is it ever polite to ask to pay individually?

It didn't seem entirely polite to ask what everyone was in for.

But I think it's always polite to ask before you take a portrait of someone.

His eyes plead for release but he is too polite to ask.

Mr Monti, anxious to preserve transatlantic relations, was far too polite to ask this question in his own defence.

Most people are too polite to ask why they didn't share those insights a few weeks earlier.

"This is really Roy's doing," he said, before I had even figured out a polite way to ask.

Is there a polite way to ask nonoenophiles to drink the less expensive wine and let the wine lovers enjoy the special bottles?

And if that is considered too strict, is there a polite way to ask guests not to post photographs — or, at the very least, ask them to refrain from posting until the following day?

Is there a polite way to ask, "Did you have surgery?" --Spencer Cox A. Your heart's in the right place, but I'm afraid "Did you have surgery?" is the wrong question for two reasons.

Silicon Alley Insider says it's basically a polite way to ask for a little more money.