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It is so far from needing apology on your part, that it calls for thanks on mine. I endeavor to show civilities to all the Americans who come here, & will give me opportunities of doing it ...

It was not really comparable to the famed Dreyfus Trial, but viewers of the film on the Goldman Trial will be left wondering ...

New technologies are shaping behaviors and dissolving civilities. In 2005, Lynne Truss, in her book Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home ...

Remembering those peaceable days fondly, Walz says he longs for a return to the civilities provided by citizens who shared a common respect for and a commitment to “democracy, a commitment to ...

A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work. By John Banville Some biographers, perhaps more than we know of, come to ...

Soon, secrets are revealed, civilities are dropped and identities are explored in a harsh new light. Race and rivalry, class and family, all come together for an explosive comedy of manners about ...

With that said, the movie — like the source material — is less an all-out creature feature extravaganza and more an exploration of how our fragile system of civilities begin to erode in the ...

which is a level of contempt that breaches even the generous allowances set by the 1997 UK Screw You Act which I understand exempts all British retail employees from basic civilities in the ...

a lack of those considerate civilities so much appreciated by good American society, and a general obtrusiveness that is frequently disgusting, and always repulsive to the well-bred.” ...

“Naturally,” a Paris lawyer once told me, “that doesn’t obligate us to simpler civilities, like giving you the time of day.” Street fishing—casting a lure in the shadow of the Eiffel ...