It would seem obvious that a new building should offer something more challenging than a polite bow to a distinguished past.
But the king, knowing this is a polite way of phrasing a republican ambition, will not.
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Lately, when I tell stories of folks who have built great things over the course of a long career, or who have had remarkable success in a second (or third) career later in life, the reaction is often polite and a little bored.
Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.
It was music that was bluesy with a cool, laid-back swing, coming from a polite Southern gentleman who had a sharp, biting wit.
Yet I trust Chirchir, who is polite to a fault, with money more than my Kikuyu brothers.
Maybe there can be a step back, or at least a polite pause of momentum, and a school can have a healthy conversation about what it wants when it wants to be part of college sports.
Trump has offered various statements that the non-partisan, Pulitzer Prize winning website "Politifact" has found to be "False" and even "Pants On Fire, " which is a polite way of saying the statement is a lie.
For years, the Commission's reaction to made-up stories (eg, the EU is to scrub all mentions of the Queen from British passports) has been to write a polite letter of correction, and after a delay of some days, put a little item on its website.
After a polite round of laughter in the room I barely gave it a second thought.
Just like the dutch coffeehouses, and countless wall street bars, and stock message boards, Twitter is going to have either a low signal to noise ratio if you are being polite, and a lot of BS if you are not.
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He is often depicted in the media as a neoconservative zealot, but on the road he is unfailingly polite, demonstrating a scholarly interest in local culture.
There are 150 games to enjoy at the exhibition, with a polite reminder to limit play to five minutes to allow everyone to have a go.
When countries had one, or two, or three television networks, then governments could, in a polite sort of way, instruct them to carry lots of very serious reports about the opening of a power station.
When politicians say they want to talk to their constituents, it is often a polite fiction.
Like, I don't mean happy, as in cosmetically OK, like a polite dinner party answer.
Then central banks resorted to quantitative easing (QE), a polite term for the creation of money.
It was, in effect, a polite ultimatum: he would relent or she would leave.
That is a polite way of saying that its offensive capability may be limited.
In unbelieving, lapsed Britain, God is a polite puzzle more than an everyday challenge.
She dismissed me with a polite and condescending smile and went about her merry and metric-happy way.
There was a polite round of applause, followed by silence, as Scott made his way down the aisle.
For that call, I received a polite cold shoulder from the other panelists who were making those year-end predictions.
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The prime minister's office returned the checks, with a polite note of regret.
But our request to film there has been met with a polite refusal on the grounds of commercial confidentiality.
Best of all, asking the public to sponsor a valve is far more interesting than a polite request for donations.
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They shared a polite kiss on arrival at Reagan National Airport and sat side-by-side on the flight to New Hampshire.
In addition to signing a polite yet firm non-disclosure agreement, Moffat asked us to not reveal certain details about the episode.
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Smiles are often used as a polite response and to cover up other emotions, but these faked smiles involve the mouth only.
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