Mary and I were so wild with curiosity that we had the impoliteness to turn over one of the express packages to see the name on it, and 'twas 'Miss Katrina Van Rensaelar.
If a fourth hand is wanted at a rubber, or if the rest of the company sit down to a round game, you would be deemed guilty of an impoliteness if you refused to join.
You can always ask the servant who hands it to you, and you thereby avoid all danger of having to commit the impoliteness of leaving it, and showing that you do not approve of it.
When they do realize it, they still like it better than language, and as no manners are easier than manners, they prefer the impoliteness they find waiting them here.
This was not the effect of impoliteness or of egotism; but the idea which the great Roman lords entertain of honour and duty, is not to stir one step, nor be absent one moment from their ladies.
As a full commander, he could overlook Vaneski's impoliteness to his superiors without ignoring it as Keku was doing.
For a boot ensign to interrupt like that was an impoliteness that Keku chose to ignore.
Success of this enormous Play, The Non-Juror, poor Mr. Pope laments the Decay of Poetry; though the Impoliteness of the Piece is his only insinuated Objection against it.
Imputation of every Offence that could run down a Play: Yet Impoliteness at least they oversaw.
For if Impoliteness could have so offended him, he would never have bestowed such Encomiums upon the Beggars Opera, which whatever Beauties it might boast, Politeness certainly was not one of its most striking Features.
Perhaps it would be better to be continually capricious or harsh, for the contrast of your politeness in the drawing-room with your impoliteness at home makes you appear still more odious.
I went home in a melancholy and reflective mood, wondering whether the whole had been concerted; but I concluded that this was impossible, as neither Branicki nor Binetti could have foreseen the impoliteness and cowardice of Tomatis.
My self-esteem was so wounded by this, and by his impoliteness in not answering my letter, with which he could certainly find no fault, whatever his criticism of my translation might be, that I became the sworn enemy of the great Voltaire.
No matter how they bow and smile, their real impoliteness everywhere penetrates its thin disguise.
I derive impolitenessfrom two sources,--indifference to the divine, and contempt for the human.
