1.   After a few polite words the conversation lapsed.

2.   As Sam repeated his apology, Nora stood up to leave, offering no polite word of explanation.

3.   Also, so far as museums were concerned, I was in the business of creating, in polite words, a facsimile.

4.   As Hollywood white collar and Shreveport blue collar eye each other with polite words barely disguising mutual horror, the story teeters constantly on the brink of the ridiculous.

5.   After a few polite words about Sweden, everybody asked everybody about the showdown with the United States.

6.   Carroll used his own more polite words Monday, saying that the Jets simply have no players making the big offensive plays that win games.

7.   Even some members of the OPEC oil cartel, whose heads of state met this week in Caracas, murmured polite words.

8.   In political terms, his polite words translate into cheerful anticipation of a bidding war between the presidential candidates for Hispanic votes.

9.   In those bad but best-selling novels about such women they are usually portrayed as unprincipled hussies, to use the polite old-fashioned word.

10.   But the polite words mask a struggle for power.