Mr. Gofftnan sees polite ness as the unenforceable self‐restraints that individu als exercise in managing the dealings they have with each other.
The more I talked to Salafis, the more clearly I saw that, polite and engaging as they usually were, it was very difficult for them to accept the validity of other viewpoints.
Julie and Ari saw a polite, pleasant young man, and a functioning, reunited family, and were grateful for evidence that it could be done.
Nice to see a polite acknowledgement that the decision to make Obama President was made by "our fellow Americans".
But the IS-LM model, while it continues to be the workhorse of practical policy analysis in macroeconomics, has increasingly been treated by the profession as a sort of embarrassing relative, not fit to be seen in polite intellectual company.
People will always judge each other for decisions they've made in their lives, but when I come home after a long day at work and see my polite, intelligent daughter reading Dear Zoo to her grandmother it's difficult to have any regrets about decisions I've made.
Everybody can see how polite he is and they love him for it.
I suppose we'd seen enough "polite opening-act greetings and half-filled houses" by then that the stress was starting to show on my face.
So, early in my career, I was seeing a polite teenage girl who arrived at the office well-groomed and dressed fairly conservatively.
His images, always in black and white, explored fetishes not seen in polite culture -- such as scantily clad models in leg casts or wearing orthopedic braces; or in leather corsets, with whips.
