1.   Although she was deeply bored, she maintained a masquerade of polite interest as her guest droned on.

2.   They were watching his legs with polite interest.

3.   Getting no response apart from polite interest, he pounced.

4.   I rarely got beyond this point in my sales patter before expressions of incredulity replaced polite interest.

5.   Again, although she showed polite interest, Driscoll had no intention of following through.

6.   Every day it sends a torrent of e-mails and faxes to anyone who has ever expressed a polite interest in his campaign.

7.   President Perez Balladares of Panama has tendered at least polite interest.

8.   When Casey was a senior, there was polite interest by UCLA, but he made it clear he wanted to go somewhere else.