savoir-vivre

Her manual on how to behave in modern society, "Usages du monde: Règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne," brought out in 1889, became a best seller.

A Nation Holding Out for a Hero Lennox Morrison 2011

China's Megatrends, by John and Doris Naisbitt, represents the low point of the genre: studded with fawning tributes to the government and generalizations so grand as to be useless, it exults in the platitude: "We wished some of the journalists who criticize China so self-righteously and condescendingly would also write about the cosmopolitanism and savoir-vivre of some top-ranking Chinese politicians."

Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

China's Megatrends, by John and Doris Naisbitt, represents the low point of the genre: studded with fawning tributes to the government and generalizations so grand as to be useless, it exults in the platitude: "We wished some of the journalists who criticize China so self-righteously and condescendingly would also write about the cosmopolitanism and savoir-vivre of some top-ranking Chinese politicians."

Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

China's Megatrends, by John and Doris Naisbitt, represents the low point of the genre: studded with fawning tributes to the government and generalizations so grand as to be useless, it exults in the platitude: "We wished some of the journalists who criticize China so self-righteously and condescendingly would also write about the cosmopolitanism and savoir-vivre of some top-ranking Chinese politicians."

China: Waking The Sleeping Giant The New York Review Of Books 2010

China's Megatrends, by John and Doris Naisbitt, represents the low point of the genre: studded with fawning tributes to the government and generalizations so grand as to be useless, it exults in the platitude: "We wished some of the journalists who criticize China so self-righteously and condescendingly would also write about the cosmopolitanism and savoir-vivre of some top-ranking Chinese politicians."

Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

China's Megatrends, by John and Doris Naisbitt, represents the low point of the genre: studded with fawning tributes to the government and generalizations so grand as to be useless, it exults in the platitude: "We wished some of the journalists who criticize China so self-righteously and condescendingly would also write about the cosmopolitanism and savoir-vivre of some top-ranking Chinese politicians."

Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books The Huffington Post News Team 2010

If the treatment at the hands of the bored student, frustrated actor or ranting waiter proved eye-opening, the spread of savoir-vivre to so many corners of this land comes as a revelation.

Paris Blues: A Returning Expatriate Gets His Bearings 2008

Je veux est une fille avec de bonne grace et savoir-vivre.

My Personal Ode written in French and American English Translation Nomadicasian 2007

And at some point in my life, I stopped feeling responsible for others' short-sightedness or lack of savoir-vivre.

Gimp Etiquette Kay Olson 2007

Even today, you are not prepared to admit that personal wealth and emotional stability are inadequate substitutes for savoir-vivre.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994