politesse

Et comme pour rendre la politesse au mouvement citoyen, le ministre de l'Education a annonce que le cours inaugural de cette annee traitera de la situation que vit actuellement le pays.

clatter, & clang, where commonplace politesse, Ng goi,

It was these uncanny qualities that fuelled the rediscovery of Lequeu in the 20th century, when he was proclaimed as a proto-Surrealist and hailed as a disrupter of our notions of the period's neoclassical politesse. Lequeu had deposited his drawings at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in 1825, like an architectural time bomb, before dying in obscure poverty.

They've lost a submarine!" -- whose usual pained expression comes across, in this context, as the politesse of an English person trying not to seem condescending in a room full of foreigners speaking English.

Without speculating on what the father-son writing process was like, it feels as though some kind of politesse kept this 700-page book from being usefully tightened." JANET MASLIN

French was the language of international diplomacy; those groomed for lives that would traverse the global elite had to master French politesse. Foreign monarchs such as the tsars of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia were actually more comfortable speaking French than Russian or German, which often meant official court business was conducted in French.

vaguely irresponsible." In two forensic interviews with artists Peter Saul and Jim Nutt, Dunham reveals these subjects as rogue nerds from the plains who refuse the usual New York cultural politesse. Pushed to make the admission, Saul finally blurts out, "When I go to the Museum of Modern Art ...

He attributed that ability to a diplomatic politesse rooted in the group's leaders, who he said know how to deal with contentious issues without being too pointed.

'The unceremonious manner by which Robredo was eased out from the Cabinet smacks of inordinate partisanship, gross impropriety and absence of requisite politesse,' he said.

The politesse that she shares with Paley and Davis is here fractured; breaking this surface tension proves uncanny.

Beckinsale, who had the title role in a 1996 television version of Emma, is wickedly candid and cunning as a widow looking out for herself, and mooching, with the utmost politesse, off in-laws, friends and admirers.