politesse

1 Which, though it was shrouded in politesse, was a different point altogether.

2 The career of a high-wattage soloist demands not only prowess but also politesse: pressing the flesh, dining with patrons, smiling at audiences.

3 But, she notes, Byrne “gives Faith a bitingly droll politesse that tells us she has Gary’s number: She knows he’s as comfortable with his privilege as she is with hers.”

4 Jung, with his neatly trimmed mustache and his studious Protestant politesse, seems to embody an ideal of upright Germanic propriety.

5 Maybe this was just politesse as a disarming tactic, but Morgen saw it as something deeper — an ability to seek connection and profundity in any situation.

6 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.

7 But Lorraine's politesse has limits, as a pair of Minnesota’s finest find when they pay a visit to her office to inquire about her daughter-in-law’s connection to a North Dakota crime.

8 When she encounters someone boorish or grating — an insolent waitress, say, or a manspreader on the subway — she seethes with anger, as if allergic to the slightest lapse of etiquette or social politesse.

9 The responses are eye-opening, but do not necessarily represent the gold standard of politesse.

10 If she were alive today, she would be giving a celebratory dinner that President and Michelle Obama — and perhaps even Mitt and Ann Romney — would be delighted to attend, and where politesse would trump politics.

11 Nevertheless, women snapped them up, too, enough that at the women’s shows in October, they found their way onto the runway for Louis Vuitton, at the pinnacle of luxury politesse.

12 With them I normally will observe the politesse of secular society concerning religion—say nothing about it.

13 She’s not so much a train wreck as the train that wrecks the stasis of smothering politesse; the best woman for the job.

14 Absent any convincing emotional investment, the sonic politesse is ideal for naps or gently lolling about in a back-porch swing.

15 But anyone looking for the lowdown on haute cuisine will be sorely disappointed: devoid of emotion, context or narrative, the baffling avant-garde techniques and extreme politesse of the lab become oppressively dull.

16 In a departure from typical Broadway politesse, Mr. Podell is trying to sideline “All the Way” with an unusual campaign on behalf of “The Great Society.”

17 Not all lapses of Twitter politesse are calculated.

18 Politesse costs nothing and gains everything.

礼貌无所失，却得到了一切。

19 The Broadway veteran Carolee Carmello thus creates the character of the Pennsylvania holdout John Dickinson mostly by holding back on the outrage and offering smiles and politesse in its place.

20 He dressed nicely, he performed with excellent posture, and he struck his drums with a politesse that somehow made the music of the Rolling Stones feel exponentially rude.

1 彬彬有礼

fair-spoken savoir-vivre buttondown

2 文雅

pure gentle polite attic humane cultivated genteel urbane svelte couth gently prettily finish gentility urbanity urbanize

3 斯文

polite jaunty grace

4 优雅

class elegant stylish neat finished delicate refined polite exquisite Corinthian gracious graceful cultivated courtly ladylike lightsome gentlemanlike featly Chesterfieldian finely elegantly graciously chicly finish grace polish elegance flair delicacy fineness elegancy etherealness bon ton

5 客气

mannerly civil polite courteous unobtrusive politely unobtrusively fair spoken keep distance civility

6 礼节

formal form ceremony protocol etiquette decency propriety decorum bien seance rite formality nicety

7 礼貌

manner courtesy decency propriety civility politeness manners devoir ceremony decorum comity couth parliamentary attentive suave form attention breeding ungracious