They might be ornery, but these dragons must be painfully polite to one another.
The last time, just before she left, they'd both been painfully polite.
They were painfully polite, because I guess their strategy was to wait for Sloop to come to his senses and dump me.
The girl's mother greeted her at the door and was painfully polite as she ushered Brynn into the living room.
Dom Esteban was sitting on the sidelines, talking to a painfully polite young couple who slipped away to dance as his son approached.
Roic would have a fully justifiable, painfully polite fit at the suggestion.
I remember sitting for hours in the conference rooms, talking in circles and being painfully polite.
Admiral Naismith was painfully polite during lunch.
Japan is a reclusive, painfully polite, and hard-working character.
In fact he was painfully polite.