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We are perhaps just too polite to point it out.
Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of Own the Room, on the flaws everyone's too polite to point out.
Everyone is too polite to point out that you may love Banksy's One Nation Under CCTV mural, but you also have a camera installed to watch over the BMW in your driveway.
The new Gore was too polite to point out that they already provide more than 80percentt of the troops and 90percentt of the cost of the peacekeeping operation.
This emphasis on the imperial dimension of these wars is long overdue, though Jasanoff is too polite to point out that Britain was largely engaged - in Ireland, South Africa and the West Indies as well as in India - in what was essentially a "counter-revolutionary" war against Jacobinism.
If you're stuck, you could ask the person peering over your shoulder for advice, but she would be too preoccupied figuring out her own Coney Island Cotton Candy versus Ecuadoral Coral problem to help you, or else too polite to point out that the Pistol Packin' Pink family, not the Pompeii Purples, is where you belong in the first place.
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We tried in a polite way to point out the distraction, but the situation, like many others, was such that bluntness was not acceptable.
Thin to the point of gauntness, polite to the point of daintiness, Ron Paul is a 71-year-old great-grandfather, a small-town doctor, a self-educated policy intellectual and a formidable stander on constitutional principle.
Twitter was aflame with Canadian supporters and non-supporters of Trudeau, and all so polite in their keenness to point out how they felt about Trudeau.
While Americans are direct, Saudis are polite to the point of being evasive, he said.
David was an inclusive director on set, sometimes polite to the point of diffidence, but no pushover.
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