Sentence examples for politely down from inspiring English sources

The septuagenarian smiles politely down at the audience but his lyrics are dark as night.

I imagined a huge pool in the rock, perhaps with a steaming waterfall raining down, and Amie and I swimming naked in the water after our friends showed us the location and then returned politely down the steps to wait at the car.

("You're quite bleak, John", murmured Florence, politely turning down the offer of a wrestling masterclass afterwards).

Fashion designers have asked to rent the space for their shows, but have been politely turned down.

"It's going to be cool," Tryon said, talking about the tournament in Phoenix while politely turning down the volume blasting from his car's formidable speakers.

The Ninja Tune label, which had politely turned down her previous efforts, was impressed by her progress and promptly signed her.

Cole is a former chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee and is no fool, despite being politely slapped down by John Boehner and a few other Republicans for his remarks yesterday.

"There is an old type of aristocracy that will only be in the background," said Ingrid Seward, remembering how one of Diana's older sisters, Jane Fellowes, politely turned down a chance to talk to Majesty magazine about her sister.

I was phoned up recently and asked for my views about Shakespeare in schools, and then politely stood down when I turned out to have the exact same views as every single other person they had asked.

A request [for Soco to pay for the delegation] was made by the ICCN [the Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature, the government national parks authority] in May but was politely turned down," he said.

Speaking on stage at the Provincetown film festival, where he was honoured with the Film-maker on the Edge award, Cronenberg said he politely turned down the chance to direct an instalment of the long-running space opera saga.