Sentence examples for politeness with from inspiring English sources

A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors.

And I still remember the politeness with which one elderly gentleman addressed me in a bookshop.

Liu, once a firebrand who equated moderation with capitulation and politeness with servility, had matured.

A corrections officer encouraged politeness with a megaphone: "Show a little love".

Anyone who combines his scrupulous politeness with scalpel-sharp yet sympathetic interviewing is cool: add an offbeat sense of humour and you get, as André 3000 had it, ice-cool.

To give you a flavour, here he is on politeness: "Taken on its own, it is secondary, negligible, nearly insignificant; next to virtue or intelligence it is nothing, and that is what politeness, with its exquisite reticence, must know how to express as well.

So for example, some subjects were primed with terms that had to do with politeness, others with terms that had to do with rudeness, and the dependent variable, the thing which he was measuring, was how likely they were to interrupt the experimenter when they needed to get information from the experimenter.

The latter confuses politeness and niceness with respect.

And I don't think I'd have dared to write this one if not for the confusion caused when you mix American over-politeness with Israeli straight-talk.

On visit after visit he sees how bravado battles with vulnerability, extreme tension with politeness, self-harm with hours in the gym.

They with their awkwardness, blunders and politeness, she with her hesitancy and her bizarre request for white wine (the publican has a bottle somewhere in the back).