Sentence examples for politely like from inspiring English sources

"I get introduced to people now as its founder and people smile politely like they would to an elderly relative, say 'That's nice' and then quickly change the subject".

The 16-stone bearded bloke from Barnet had the galleries eating out of his hand all of the way around, the crowds acknowledging his shots, good and bad, with shouts of "Beef" and "We've still got the Beef" with his playing partner, Bill Haas, smiling politely like an American visitor observing the quirky behaviour of a neighbouring people.

A nation that has no living memory of a time of national despair finds it impossible to believe that things won't just somehow get back to "normal" if we just behave politely like the good middle class people that we are supposed to be.

So very politely, we "like," "favorite," and "share".

Author could never overcome her feeling that though the Baron conversed politely and liked to talk poetry, his real reason for dropping in was in the hope of selling an insurance.

They should be politely listened to like everyone else, but the idea they have not only become the sole arbiter of economic policy disputes, but also remain beyond reproach themselves is insulting to our intelligence.

When Leslie was denied that year and told by the board she needed more counseling in prison she replied politely, "I would like to say there is no more therapy available to me.

Our waiter gave us space, and he talked to us politely, but like normal people talk.

To be politely patronising like at the 2015 leadership election is a short route back to the backbenches.

Did these men sit and listen, hands politely folded like they were at sermon delivered by Charles Finney -- the Dr. Phil of the 1830s?

Sometimes he pleads for it to stop, politely, amiably, like you'd expect from the consummate professional that is the Lineker personal brand.