politeness
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“Freed from narrative, sound and movement, his photographs indulge our desire to look longer and more intently than politeness would normally permit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
She didn't usually drink coffee but when the interviewer, a senior civil servant called Christian Nègre, offered her one, she agreed out of politeness.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
There is a kind of professional politeness that demands we discuss each case in isolation so no one has to say aloud what the cumulative pattern reveals.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
Their restraint with peppering the dialogue with blatant evil effectively allows the version of fear hiding behind the surface politeness of America’s nicest small towns to seep into our consciousness.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2025
“It would be a mark of politeness to know his family.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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