The short one was polite and not in the least flustered.

"I thought people were supposed to be polite in the South."

He realized that they too were being polite, in their own way.

However, he agrees to try to be more polite in future.

They would be polite and guarded in their responses, that's all.

"You have to be polite in the theater," she said.

For one, they are polite in small and unexpected ways.

"They were always polite enough in public," Chance said carefully.

Paul had been polite but firm in the face of his mother's disapproval.

She hadn't even attempted to be polite in her refusal.