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.
