"Making the grand tour, I take it?" he asked me politely, in perfect Cambridge-tinged English.
Instead, the two politely take it in turns to answer questions, speaking for each other and generally give off the sense of sharing some sort of hive mind.
Bum Phillips wore a white Stetson hat on the sidelines (except when his teams played indoors, when he politely took it off) and was about as colorful as a football coach can be.
When a fair vendor handed Romney a vegetarian corn dog, he politely took it, turned his back to the cameras following him, took a delicate bite from the side and hurried along so he wouldn't be photographed sticking the deep-fried foot-long in his mouth.
No one disagreed with the commissioner until a respected 29-year veteran of the force, Inspector Joe O'Connor, politely took it upon himself to warn against police "panic," noting that to shift too many officers from other perpetually troubled areas might prove counterproductive.
She was considering how to ask her politely to take it down, when her friend, sensing the tension, beat her to it.
He politely refused to take it.
"Well," he said, taking a moment to put it politely, "it's not exactly like he asked you to do it".
"In what conditions does a society, do enough people in a society, want to listen?" she said (taking, politely, one of my questions and making it better).
He said it was probably safe to take Tylenol and politely but firmly indicated it was time for me to go.
Whenever someone writes to take me politely to task over some unfair generalization, self-contradiction or unexamined blind spot, my riposte is usually something along the lines of: "Hm, yeah, I guess you have a point there".
