Examples of using "вежливости" in a sentence and their english translations:
He explained that civility spread,
Maybe she's just being polite.
Did you just say that to be nice?
Why do so many people study Japanese? The kanjis aren't logical, there are two alphabets, there aren't spaces between words, the adjectives change with the tense of the sentence, there are various grammatical constructions for the different levels of formality.
Mary could not believe that Tom liked eating spinach as a child -- until the day that politeness forced her to try her grandmother's spinach. From then on, she had a new favorite dish!