Word: courteous
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...guys here are always polite and courteous. It’s a safe house,” she says...
...unlikely that the authors wanted to upset anyone. Murray, a clinical psychologist, is jovial and courteous in a professorial way; Fortinberry, a therapist, exudes warmth but also a fragility that betrays her long struggle with depression, won but not forgotten. Though they're blunt about the consequences of poor parenting, they don't criticize parents. "We live in a society in which damage is rampant," says Fortinberry, "in which it's impossible to bring up kids the way we're meant to bring up kids...
...deference to me based perhaps on me being the older guy. And I appreciate that. It's something I've seen firsthand many times, in very subtle ways, like today, walking in, "You go first." That kind of stuff. We come from an old line, my family, kind of courteous kind of guys, and this means something to me. It's not just social niceties. There are many ways he makes me feel that this is a two-way street and that he's enjoying...
...these “intruders” still don’t get the hint after all of your indirect techniques, you may have to resort to bluntness. I mean, being courteous only gets you so far in life, right? Plus, despite the “nice guy” reputation you may have, these room dwellers probably don’t deserve the courtesy at this point...
...eight years old and, thanks in large part to the efforts of the HCC trick-or-treaters, leads a normal life. As group members fanned out in pairs last night, trick-or-treating all the way from Brattle Street to Beacon Hill, organizers instructed them to be courteous and emphasize the importance of their cause. They opened the conversations with an exuberant “Happy Halloween,” and followed up with a short presentation on the infant’s condition, complete with photographs. HCC received a large variety of responses, ranging from a curt...