How To Use politesse In A Sentence
- With trademark Asian politesse, Japan’s Finance Minister Jun Azumi let Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner know just what a problem Washington is creating for Tokyo, which relies on Iran for 10% of its oil needs. Pepe Escobar: The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
- Ok then, enough with the politesse, let's not beat around the mulberry.
- For a moment I thought one of them might warn the staff, but they didn't and anyway the French have an overlay of politesse that makes them immune from such idly malevolent vibes.
- Even the purportedly daring offerings had about them a certain politesse that left only a gossamer impression.
- It sounds so unrealistically, unsophisticatedly direct - so lacking in politesse and not something that is actually done in the real world.
- Mr. Fumaroli agrees: The courtly way of life is his maquette for the spread of human happiness he never mentions that you had to have the standing and the old money to enjoy it: "Elegance, politesse and a new sweetness of manners . . . prefigured a world in which each man's freedom could accommodate the equality of all. Why They All Came to Versailles
- As sexual and scatological as the subjects might be, they are rendered with a kind of politesse that is rare in contemporary graphic art.
- And with that she combined abuse of Republican politicians and the entire Washington establishment that tolerated their existence with her unique mix of affected aristocratic politesse and unblinking belligerence. O: A Presidential Novel
- Where the others chased secretaries around desks, he dated women with politesse.
- Neither of them have the courage to break the politesse of the arrangement, and intend to see the date through to the end.