politely

She politely passes as she’s participating in a couple of events for her film later in the day.

What’s scary is not what Reed has in store for them, but how these young women already know how to placate and navigate a Bad Man, how to “politely wrap this up.”

A strutting psych-blues jam with visions of “great cities that toppled and drowned,” it’s a highlight from the Pink Floyd veteran’s strong new solo album, “Luck and Strange” — and one of the latter-day cuts his fans will politely nod their heads to a few hours from now between beloved oldies such as “Wish You Were Here” and “Comfortably Numb.”

I said, politely, “You snooze, you lose.”

Some people, she said, when they see she’s been endorsed by Planned Parenthood politely decline a conversation.