"Probably what passes for a polite disagreement," I muttered.

It could simply be transformed, almost overnight, if we only reprogram certain implements-" Daneel shook his head in the human fashion, indicating polite disagreement.

Haas smiled polite disagreement.

At times, that tension has played out as a polite, though real, disagreement between the three co-leaders of the working group.

On his first visit to a Western country responsible for the security of Berlin, the East German leader, met polite but firm disagreement on human rights and arms control.

Ruibal cleared his throat in polite theoretical, or perhaps theological, disagreement.

It is a pleasant association, he said, with only polite disagreement, as one would expect, over a record from time to time.

Apparently they went beyond polite disagreement to violent action.

We have already had one summit meeting about the spiritual education of our daughters, and the result was polite disagreement.