| Neither of them have the courage to break the politesse of the arrangement, and intend to see the date through to the end. |
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| If I wanted to talk about the laundry, politesse would indicate that you'd see me. |
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| Even the purportedly daring offerings had about them a certain politesse that left only a gossamer impression. |
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| He hasn't succumbed to the fatal politesse and detachment that afflicts many musicians trained to within an inch of their lives. |
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| The unity is not a matter of social politesse or cooperation, but the essential unity of those who share the same flesh and the same bones. |
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| Where the others chased secretaries around desks, he dated women with politesse. |
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| As sexual and scatological as the subjects might be, they are rendered with a kind of politesse that is rare in contemporary graphic art. |
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| Now, some of you may not have kindly old men with cupcakes standing by, ready targets for your politesse. |
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| The form, structures and politesse of class and political power set the parameters of our language, our social critique, and our proposals. |
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| And perhaps most important, to deflect criticism and mollify opponents with politesse and wit. |
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| Or will an uneasy impulse to politesse, and fear of unknown consequences, restrain them? |
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| Now the Parisian public transport authority, the RATP, is trying to solve this problem of politesse. |
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| No soft, nonpartisan politesse can erase that well-recorded, hard history. |
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| All weekend reporters in eastern Ukraine were walking a bizarre tightrope, of prurience, politesse, and ghoulishness. |
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| And he should not be making excuses for his idiot cronies or relying on politesse and bureaucratic snafus to explain why he was late when the crisis hit. |
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| The same could not be said for Foley, whose Midwestern politesse never quite gelled with the salty bare-knuckles feistiness that's become the DN's trademark. |
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| Ok then, enough with the politesse, let's not beat around the mulberry. |
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| I continue to press for details because it is clear he is interested in talking, but that he's got an evolved sense of politesse so many drivers lack. |
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| The other is that it seems almost frivolous in its politesse. |
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| How could someone play-act with the honor and politesse of the 19th century but be such a cad in real life? |
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| There are rock-ribbed racists who conceal their atavism behind a clubby politesse. |
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