Sentence examples for surprisingly polite from inspiring English sources

Many today said the terrorists were surprisingly polite.

This duel between Roberts and Montoya combines traditional swashbuckling action with a surprisingly polite exchange between the two adversaries, who establish a sense of mutual respect during the fight.

They were surprisingly polite, in a Readers' Confessions way: "Lisa answered the door in a dangerously tight black dress," that sort of thing, written as though getting seconds of pleasure from the encounter (and for the prices involved, it's hard to begrudge any punter that).

At Harveys, they received surprisingly polite responses, while at Cain-Sloan they were treated with contempt.

That level of negativity hasn't been seen so far this year it's a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party, but it's been a surprisingly polite one thus far.

Making politics polite again.

The debate, though polite, was surprisingly intense.

He was very polite and surprisingly "English".

Off the water he is polite, obliging, surprisingly shy.

The polite request can also be surprisingly effective at lowering tension: I have courteously asked kids throwing sand to stop and they have (all right, they were aged four).

More than a quotable motormouth, this is one surprisingly multifaceted cartoon villain: a genial sadist, an oppressively polite interrogator, a hyper-articulate polyglot whose verbal dexterity is his scariest weapon.