Word: courteousely
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Dressed in jeans, sneakers and a black T shirt, Blades looks younger than his 41 years as he comes to the door of the New York City apartment he owns with his wife of three years, American actress Lisa Blades. "I'm just cleaning up a little," he explains. Courteous and soft-spoken, Blades sweeps his living-room floor while he speaks, his lightly accented speech peppered with Spanish words and American slang. When a topic stirs him, Blades can become animated and emphatic, pacing, pointing, his brown eyes bright with conviction...
...courteous as at their first meeting, even refused a chair in favor of a seat on the floor...
...drive from Omaha to Lincoln was about one hour long, and I continued to be amazed by certain features of Nebraska. The terrain was absolutely flat and the horizon extended forever. Drivers were courteous. One time, I found myself in the wrong lane at a traffic light. I touched my horn to see if I could move over a lane, and instead of inching up to cut off my angle, the fellow smiled and waved me in. Sumner Tunnel, how you doing...
...that I think contempt for rural residents is exclusive to Harvard or to liberals. After all, the similarity of the word "urbane" (meaning "well-bred and courteous") to "urban" is no etymological accident. I'm not even convinced that elitist Harvardians--both liberal and conservative--disdain "rednecks" any more than they disdain the working class in general...
...people are courteous, of course, but frightfully dull, and the whole place has always looked somehow "preserved" to me, rather like pickles in a jar. And too many cows, I always say, there are just far too many cows...