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courteousness



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The book is a dance between candor and diplomacy, as Andrews navigates the imperative of honesty with the courteousness that seems to be her governing instinct.”

From Fox News ● Oct. 17, 2019

There’s little of the emotional distance or forced courteousness that can feel like a force field around people when such different backgrounds, classes, races and ages come together.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2019

His courteousness was often taken — mistaken might be the better word — for docility.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2018

They were two guests who had lived in their shared courteousness for so long that they had mistaken it for affection or warmth.

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

Father approved of them because they taught the virtues most revered by the people of Zimbabwe: loyalty, bravery, courteousness and reverence for Mwari, the supreme god.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer


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