Examples of incivility

• The interplay between offense and convention is no surprise, since the wrongfulness of offense is closely connected to the expressive vice of incivility.

• Such societies require of their members a certain robustness of sensibility, so that incivility is sometimes tolerated for the sake of social discourse.

• Others are embarrassed by the incivility and glibness of our public spokespeople.

• It is, however, unlikely that proprietors would openly admit to incivility towards residents.

• Bryson's analysis of these topics tends to emphasize general intellectual trends, rather than specific social, political and polemical contexts in which conflicts between civility and incivility arose.

• Far too many are by any definition, purely trivial—allegations of a policeman smoking on duty or of minor incivility.

• A complaint was made about the officer's incivility.

• We are accustomed to his natural and apparently unconscious impoliteness and incivility, but people abroad expect something better, and they are entitled to expect it.