1.   A demand couched in polite terms is still a demand.

2.   At the symposium, Dr. John Baines, an Oxford University Egyptologist who had just visited Dreyer, expressed skepticism in polite terms.

3.   Eric Lemarque was offered advice recently in not so polite terms.

4.   Is it the upmarket version of page-turner, a more polite term for potboiler?

5.   It is dizzying to realize that excellence is a polite term for obsession.

6.   No one couches criticism in polite terms any more.

7.   The voice said my only option was a ticket re-seller, which is a polite term for a scalper.

8.   Many threads make reference -- and not always in polite terms -- about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the dominance of the English language.