Hints and tips:
...“I’m into this idea of anti-politeness, because we live in a very polite world, so I think [McQueen’s] message is more relevant than ever.”...
...“F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E” and “Sorted for E’s & Wizz” were ticked off like rites of passage from someone moving from Sheffield outsider to Britpop in-crowd....
...Knowing that the Tang came before the Song shouldn’t be enough to distinguish one in polite society. I’m afraid it is. Once in a while, a public intellectual cuts through the provinciality....
...For years, a polite, Apple-lite aesthetic has dominated the products made by Big Tech companies. We are surrounded by smooth, rounded edges and muted colour palettes....
...And I take my bra off or pull the cups down and I jiggle my shoulders while saying “T-h-a-n-k-y-o-u”. Though I, I get my period. And then I have cramps....
...The great Greek poets Constantine Cavafy and George Seferis lived respectively in Alexandria and Cairo....
...“I had a letter from a Marxist professor at the Sorbonne, who noted ‘Il n’y a que le provisoire qui dure,’” he recalls....
...It was somehow more polite in a restaurant to whisper a minatory “E-N-T” than to make the possibly audible observation “English Next Table”....
...Then I heard the voices of boys shouting the N-word, making animal noises and throwing packed snowballs with stones in them....
...The two worlds, of working-class women and the glamour of rock ’n’ roll, had little in common....
...It launched Kylie Minogue and a polite-looking lad called Rick Astley....
...If you could create new gold mines out of nothing by cut’n’paste....
...Chrissie Hynde had been in fine voice, the band behind her kicking up a storm, but a firmly seated audience had offered only polite applause....
...The local conversational style is polite and undramatic, and nobody I spoke to pretended to have an explanation for the team’s success....
...Harry doesn’t seem very antisocial, but even now she and her longtime musical partner Chris Stein couldn’t really be anything other than rock ‘n’roll stars....
...The 28-year-old Londoner has made his name by blending the eerie glitches and bass wobbles of dubstep with R’n’B grooves and plaintive, falsetto vocals that express emotional vulnerability — a kind of millennial...
...The polite way to start an encounter is with, “Bonjour”, so to indicate rudeness, open with “Oui?” And to complain, say, “Mais c’est n’importe quoi!” (roughly, “It’s nonsense”)....
...“Kylie Minogue called me up on the phone/She was polite and I’m polite too so we got on fine/She asked if she could use my poetry/ And I said help yourself girl it’s all for free.”...
...“Everyone in Italy thought he was very nice, polite, kind, but please never call him to my team.” Has Mr Ranieri suddenly become a genius at 64?...
...He urged Irish businesses with operations in the UK — of which there are many — to “go out and in a nice, polite Irish way to campaign for the UK to remain in the EU.”...
...“When you say ‘the N-word’, you put the word ‘nigger’ in the listener’s head.”...
...Not only have we banished the ugly from most competitive jobs, polite society has banished the word too....
...And it’s not just a matter of it not being polite to say n—-r in public.” (WTF) What’s killing the babies of Vernal, Utah?...
...Let’s hope they get a polite hearing from underwriters. Regulators should also prick up their ears....
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