How To Use politesse In A Sentence
- Has a sudden outbreak of politesse gripped the Internet?
- 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.
- 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.
- `Well, I suppose... "With a stiff wave of his hand - a mock politesse, it seemed - he ushered her in. SORT OF RICH
- 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.
- If I wanted to talk about the laundry, politesse would indicate that you'd see me.
- References: la politesse (f) = politeness, courtesy; le coiffeur (la coiffeuse) = hairdresser; pour le travail? French Word-A-Day:
- 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
- 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
- ‘There is always a level of politesse among elites,’ says Susan P. Koniak, a professor of legal ethics at Boston University School of Law.
