Sentences with phrase «of polite»

Plus, powder rooms are intended for guests, so it's kind of the polite & hospitable thing to do.

Once reserved for the private rituals of grooming and never the subject of polite conversation, you'd hardly recognize its formerly pragmatic self (as recently as 20 years ago) next to today's sparkling, modern versions.

She is the author of The Power of Polite, Blueprint for Success and Cognito Cards — Wisdom for Dining & Social Etiquette.

Make use of polite phrases such as «please», «thank you», and «I'm sorry» often.

I don't think that we will ever go back to the days of polite written correspondence and nice conversations.

I've taught them to be polite but I wonder if it's a different kind of polite than I'd teach a daughter.

Following is a good example of a polite resignation letter.

The position is very customer focused, therefore the chosen applicant would need good customer service skills and to be of a polite, friendly and professional manner.

There are different kinds of polite rejection letters which may be used in varying situations.

This post is a collection of polite rejection letter templates and samples that you may use as reference in creating the Polite Rejection Letter that you need.

But like all forms of polite conversation, it's easy to make a faux pas if you don't know the current trends.

4chan, Reddit, and Digg were all once well - kept gardens of polite discourse until Eternal September set in.

But make no mistake, when the 85 dB siren sounds (following a couple of polite, audible reminders to enter the passcode), it certainly causes a racket.

But that one might be on the cusp of polite conversation for a Friday Fillip...

And though I personally enjoy the look of polite disgust I get after telling prospective candidates that the lawyer to assistant ratio is five to one, it can really turn off a potential employer.

The message, stripped of its polite disguise, is that I should «get with it, or get left behind.»

After years of polite chatter about technology and innovation in law, it simply became more visible and tangible, read: «actual».

Dan used the term «politeness police» in the title to his post, indicating his hatred of the post didn't require him to be polite (which is correct), but the opposite of polite doesn't require being a total fucking dickwad.

While it's not a topic of polite conversation, the planet's 6 billion people expel a lot of gas.

Monckton's written comments here are epitomy of polite logic and reason, in sharp contrast to the shrill, rude, unfounded comments of those CAGW cult contributors.

I thought Baillie was one of the polite, well - mannered ones from the Queens - team.

I think, even if those truths caught on, and with a little humility and lots of POLITE discourse, perhaps we can progress, make a difference, and find ways to leave our descendants an environment as good as it was (maybe even better) than when we were born.

For a quarter of a century, we have tried the approach of polite incremental change, attempting to bend the physical needs of the planet to our economic model's need for constant growth and new profit - making opportunities.

the image that comes to mind is of a polite young man walking into a corporate office for a job interview with a t - shirt that reads: OH FUCK YOU!

An assault on the senses, No, No New Museum establishes a powerful secondhand embarrassment by suggesting that a frenzied child is always seething below the surface of polite, adult behavior.

She speaks precisely in a refined accent and recalls the time she «had tea with Agnes Martin in New York» - the picture of a polite meeting between these two great abstract artists materialises.

Photographer Katy Grannan will introduce a sneak preview of her first feature - length film, The Nine, named for a street in Modesto, California, «a no - man's land where the rules of polite society do not apply,» says the synopsis for the film.

Inspired by Fischl's own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980's, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

Inspired by Eric Fischl's own childhood in suburban Long Island, NY, and his early career as an artist working in New York City in the 1980s, Disturbing Innocence presents a subversive and escapist world at odds with the values and pretensions of polite society.

Each of them mingles the sort of polite early - 20th century, largely British art once associated with the Tate Britain with the internationally diverse postwar - to - present conceptual art you might find at the Tate Modern.

«All of my work is like a flashlight on the dark underbelly that exists under the surface of polite society.

Invoking the platitudes of polite society with expressions like «Best regards» or «Wonderful» or touching upon the realities that impact all our lives, from love to money to aging, with phrases like «Transfer the money to me» or «Only yelling older women in here, nothing to sell,» van der Stokker makes evident the power dynamics at work within seemingly innocuous spaces.

A declassified memo after the first Gulf War shows Colin Powell's three - page response to criticism of defense policy — reduced to letterhead, a paragraph of polite evasion, blocks of magic marker, and an official signature.

Our English - speaking staff have been carefully selected and trained to international hotel standards to ensure all guests receive the highest level of polite, professional and personalised service.

A team of polite, thoughtful staff, including an in - house cook, are on hand to look after every need.

The stall doors and walls were painted black, little cubicles of polite inattention.

This is particularly perplexing to our dogs because jumping up is a sign of a polite, respectful greeting in the dog world.

You will learn about your puppy's mental and physical development, how to «outsmart» that brilliant ball of fur in the prevention of problem behaviors, and begin your puppy's learning of polite house manners.

Of course, under the veneer of polite interactions in any business, there lies the dreaded bottom line.

But I had all of Jane Austen's books in print, so that gave me an idea of one part of Polite Society at the time.

Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays.

She wore the single strand of antique pearls her grandmother had given her for her twenty - first birthday, and an expression of polite interest.

The Porsche was his favorite, but he thought even that car wasn't as good as the S2000 - a sentiment he conveyed with a combination of polite words and gestures.

I patronize two and enjoy the company of polite Canadian drunks.

But our grassroots and our leaders are not duped and will not yield to defeat, even as Finn and his henchmen seek by hook and by crook, sometimes in the guise of polite public conversation, to implement it is discreet increments.

It's an image that quickly became one of the year's most iconic, just as «the Sunken Place» instantly became an idiom capturing the kind of polite, systemic oppression Get Out warns us about.

Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Kore - eda's Continued Examination of Polite Familial Discord Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore - eda...

Letts brilliantly upends any and all aspects of polite behaviour.

Instead, the bloodshed grows slowly out of polite discussion, snowballing from the coldly logical reasoning of company COO Barry (Scandal's Tony Goldwyn).

Joanne Woodward's narrator notes that Archer privately questions the strict New York societal rules and mores without publicly challenging them, and true enough, Day - Lewis wears a mask of polite neutrality, brightening up only when Michelle Pfeiffer's Ellen Olenska, the cousin of his fiancée May (Winona Ryder), is around.