I'll agree with you, despite your polite silence, that that adventure is not very pretty.

All the watching children, and Miss Susan, made it clear in polite silence that they were waiting for her to go away.

He sat in polite silence, Todd nestled against him companionably.

Paor watched all this in polite silence until Blade was finished.

"I was - " She'd been standing there in polite silence.

The meal was eaten rather quickly in polite frosty silence.

The news was too good for Bonnie to bear in polite silence.

He asked nothing, a polite silence being the adult way of sig- nifying that one doesn't understand.

A polite silence is the adult way of signifying that one doesn't understand.

The two elderly witches sat on either side of the table in polite and prickly silence.