How To Use Politesse In A Sentence
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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
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Ok then, enough with the politesse, let's not beat around the mulberry.
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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.
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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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It sounds so unrealistically, unsophisticatedly direct - so lacking in politesse and not something that is actually done in the real world.
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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
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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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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
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Where the others chased secretaries around desks, he dated women with politesse.
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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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But, I understand, the great disturbers of the room where Mad. de ____ sleeps are two chanoines, whose noses are so sonorous and so untuneable as to produce a sort of duet absolutely incompatible with sleep; and one of the company is often deputed to interrupt the serenade by manual application _mais tout en badinant et avec politesse_ [But all in pleasantry, and with politeness.] to the offending parties.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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Miss Conduct doesn't usually have occasion to discuss children's literature, it being a realm of impeccable manners and politesse.
Archive 2009-08-01
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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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The Mercedes, however (nobody likes large and expensive cars with badly-behaved drivers) was excluded from such politesse.
LAST SHOT
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Little of the political politesse that's common in other countries after the death of a leader was evident in South Korea this weekend.
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Has a sudden outbreak of politesse gripped the Internet?
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Then there are independent directors who, through perseverance and politesse, can convince even a rubber-stamp board to reverse course and oust its CEO.
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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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No soft, nonpartisan politesse can erase that well-recorded, hard history.
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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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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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Lord Edward at once relieved the squaw of her pack by placing it upon his own shoulders, -- a beautiful instance of what the French call politesse de coeur -- the inbred politeness of the true gentleman.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
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‘There is always a level of politesse among elites,’ says Susan P. Koniak, a professor of legal ethics at Boston University School of Law.
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To Robert Plant he was this absolutely elite gentleman, the master of serenity, as much at home with the backstage cavorting of Led Zeppelin as he was with the politesse of high society. . .
The Man Behind the Music
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Then a lacquey, in magnificent livery, ushered them into a superb apartment, where they waited some minutes, without being favoured with the appearance of the ladies, to the manifest dissatisfaction of the abbe, who, sending for the gouvernante, reprimanded her severely for her want of politesse.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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References: la politesse (f) = politeness, courtesy; le coiffeur (la coiffeuse) = hairdresser; pour le travail?
French Word-A-Day:
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If I wanted to talk about the laundry, politesse would indicate that you'd see me.
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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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`Well, I suppose... "With a stiff wave of his hand - a mock politesse, it seemed - he ushered her in.
SORT OF RICH
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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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Through a twenty-year correspondence, Otto von Habsburg has also shown me the manners and politesse of the Old World juxtaposed with the pragmatism and political sense of the new.
