"Perhaps because I didn't treat you like an undesirable alien, despite your less than polite introduction."

For college students, freshman year inevitably starts with polite introductions, handshakes, "where are you from" and "what's your major."

One palm arched on the heart, the other turned in polite introduction towards the car, saying.

He couldn't have known that his silent refusal to acknowledge the polite introduction was to Gibb an insult of the highest caliber.

The later piece is shorn of polite introductions; it gets on with it.

After polite introductions had been made, he addressed her.

So much for polite introductions and light banter.

Gone are the polite introductions borrowed from the style of Haydn.

After some polite introductions, I grabbed a trade magazine and told her I would be back in a few minutes.

There followed polite introductions, pleasant meals, regular talks and serious bargaining.