Sentence examples for politeness rules from inspiring English sources

The committee is a peculiar debating society where politeness rules, politics is scorned, and intellectual arguments hold great sway.

When he started working in a Minnesota company, where politeness ruled the day, his anger eruptions had a negative impact on his ability to connect with those under his management.

Quiet politeness is Rule No. 1 in surviving an incident of racial profiling, he said.

In the article, Al Vivian, a diversity consultant in Atlanta who is black, counseled that quiet politeness "is Rule No. 1 in surviving an incident of racial profiling".

Here players wear only white; politeness is the rule; balls are handmade.

Millions of Americans are about to find out what it's like to be led by the equivalent of the drunk uncle at the Thanksgiving table who refuses to follow the rules of politeness and political correctness.

An unease, it should be said, ran around the theatre, dampened properly by the fixed Canadian rules of politeness, which make all other forms of politeness look like a policy for rudeness.

Or it can mean knowing the basic rules of politeness.

Studies with chimpanzees and human infants too young to have learned the rules of politeness, also back up these claims.

It certainly obeys one of the key rules of politeness: avoiding saying to people things they do not wish to hear.

We all know it's inappropriate to tell someone they've put on weight but why don't the same rules of politeness apply to everyone?