Sentences with phrase «polite company»

Like they say, the three things you shouldn't discuss in polite company are religion, politics and money, so I'm not going there.

The only moments of emotion occur in isolation — the suggestion being that the white upper - crust is far too refined to allow sloppy human feeling to impose on polite company.

A delicate subject that had been off - limits in polite company became a new, highly public basis for competition among lawyers, who are a fiercely competitive bunch.

I like talking about all the things you are not supposed to discuss in polite company.

With a description like that, Swiss Army Man «s marketing was never going to be appropriate for polite company — but if you walked away thinking that first green - band trailer was still a bit too tasteful, today we've got the Swiss Army Man red - band trailer to share with you.

by Walter Chaw Oftentimes, as if in a freaky mescaline dream, I find myself defending in polite company Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, this story of an astonishingly ugly, balding little troll enlisted into the man - whore trade by myopic pimp T.J. (Eddie Griffin).

And then, just as soon as it happens, Carol pulls away and departs, leaving Therese scrambling to keep her composure among polite company.

Murray's following is less visible, largely because his views on these matters lost respectability in polite company after the publication of The Bell Curve.

One aspect of this is the neighbourhood, SoMa, in which the museum stands: as recently as the early 90s it was, Benezra points out, «not a place where polite company would go looking for culture.

You've got to have a nasty old t - shirt that's best not worn in polite company rattling around your wardrobe.

So any attempt to conflate the two is... well... I can [«t think of an adjective suitable for polite company.

Yet we dare not say such things in polite company for fear that we offend those whose sons are the fathers who have left both their children and the mothers of their children.

CB: More often than I would admit in polite company.

We might discuss wealth in polite company, but money is explicit.

May I speak about R - star in polite company?

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, led by Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, revealed that they'd created their own viable chimeras — or, in polite company, «interspecies blastocyst complementations.»

And then the sacredness of an ordinary life after an exhausting evangelical hero complex, my experiences as a mother, the ways I've fallen back in love with the Church while still wrestling with what that means and how to live it out, theology, social justice, my own discipleship journey, politics, and, well, pretty much everything else that you are not supposed to discuss in polite company.

In polite company, and for the sake of keeping peace with each other (because mutual apostasies take so much effort), we can do with marriage what we do with our disagreements about eucharist and baptism: keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the end.

President Woodrow Wilson spoke in terms more moderate and it is still possible to quote him, as it is not possible to quote Beveridge, in polite company.

I had grown up thinking Catholics were supposed to apologize for their faith in polite company, but Fr.

One of my blogger - jokes is that I like to think about and write about the stuff we don't usually discuss in polite company — things like marriage and religion and politics, for instance.

The Shack is not what one would call, in polite company, a good film.

I mean, all shortbread is good — it's basically a vehicle for eating copious amounts of butter and sugar in polite company.

In polite company, no one wants to be forced to explain where babies come from, or have drawn - out discussions about other bodily functions.

She hadn't heard the word «miscarriage» before in polite company, and she didn't hear it afterward either.

Egged on by the liberal media, Cameron «detoxified» the Tory Party, thereby implying that past Titans such as Churchill and Thatcher were unsuited to polite company.

Similarly, says Bachrach, the doctorly, Latinate Anusol (a haemorrhoid cream, pronounced «an - yoo - sol») has not supplanted its rival, Preparation H, named back in the days when you didn't say «haemorrhoid» in polite company.

You ladies know that I love talking about things that one might not want to discuss in «polite company,» but things that ALL of us deal with at one time another... Elimination, incontinence, queefs, prolapse, sexual issues, etc... So when I came across Nadya Andreeva and her wonderful new book, Happy Belly, I was thrilled.

His sage distillation of those decades — «After you've been to all the fistfucking clubs all over the world, you end up in a walled garden with kittens and babies, because they're the fundamental values of life that everyone identifies with,» — rings true - ish as the counsel of the kind, trustworthy uncle character he imagines himself to be in polite company.

Political talk is often seen as one of those no - go subjects; a taboo topic that shouldn't be raised in polite company, (particularly not with someone you've just begun dating!).

In news that will surely come as a relief to Canadians unable to tear their minds off of the election, a survey by EliteSingles has revealed that 2/3 singles (65 per cent) are happy to talk politics in polite company.

«i'm studying engineering, lifeguard, ex-athlete, easy going guy, i like talking about all the things you're not supposed to discuss in polite company.»

¹ And the results were surprising: it's no longer frowned upon to talk about «taboo» topics like politics when in polite company — even during a first date!

It'll have to be personal because it's too raunchy to share with my kids, too obscene to watch with my parents and too objectionable to show in polite company.

As unseemly as such a development sounds, it rings true given the way the Church was conveniently cloaked in secrecy back in those days when words like gay or sexual abuse still had to be whispered in polite company.

To me, it's but another example of The Weather Man shouting «cunt» in polite company and then handing out ten - dollar bills.

The funniest one - liners aren't quotable in polite company, but there's not much here to merit that R - rating, other than the grisly and touching death that is supposed to amuse us.

Although many Lamborghinis were named for bulls, specifically fighting bulls, the name Countach is an Italian dialect slang word for, since we are in polite company, «holy cow» or «oh my goodness,» or your choice of expletives.

- I'm not saying that I believe that it's a fair statement or anything that you should say in polite company.

Consider Wal - Mart, a stock that I love but that I've grown accustomed to not mentioning in polite company.

There's an old saying, never discuss politics and religion in polite company (unless it's Thanksgiving and your trying to ignite the annual family brawl that's about as traditional as the pumpkin pie).

(We don't actually use that word in the US, so I don't know if it's something one isn't supposed to say in polite company.

Knights of the Old Republic in 2003 was an attempt to make RPG combat especially look cinematic and exciting despite being overtly based on D&D rules and not afraid to drop terms like THAC0 in polite company, while Jade Empire attempted to both look like a Wuxia movie and combine arcade action with RPG stats and storytelling.

There are those who think that perhaps Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian are lying about the campaigns of terror, hacking, and bullying that they are currently encountering (and thanks to Tadhg Kelly for inventing the term Gamergate Truthers to describe them — it's easier to say in polite company than fuckwads).

Like that weird third cousin your family never talks about, whosurvives on fish heads while living in an attic, this black sheep of the Zelda herd is rarely discussed in polite company.