pleasantry

1 After we exchanged pleasantries, he spoke briefly with Martin Adams and Anatoli Boukreev, who were standing just above Harris and me, waiting to descend the Step.

2 Read beyond the title, and you realise the speaker is not about to deliver pieties or pleasantries concerning the dear Departed.

3 Panama was called upon last, and dispensed with the pleasantries.

4 That observation could easily have been applied to all the genial works in this lineup of cocktail party pleasantries.

5 The old fashioned pleasantries and timidity have all been stripped away, quite literally.

6 No pleasantries, as in “Welcome” or “How was the trip?”

7 The embassy visit lasted about 15 minutes and consisted mostly of pleasantries.

8 The handshake was quick and awkward, like maybe he was new to that sort of pleasantry.

9 I think of the parks and the restaurants, of the pleasantries I'll never use on the friends I am failing to make.

10 They exchange smiles and pleasantries — she also repeats her married name for him — and they make plans to have lunch.

11 And from weatherworkers and wandering jugglers who went from town to town of the Northward Vale and the East Forest he had learned various tricks and pleasantries, spells of Illusion.

12 After an exchange of pleasantry the leader start their negotiation.

领导人互相寒暄一番，然后开始谈判。

13 A specific kind of awkwardness ensues: these are men who make million-dollar decisions without hesitation, but who struggle mightily with pleasantries.

14 Jackson moves over to Katherine and bows over her hand like a true swain, murmuring pleasantries.

15 They subsequently met in L.A. and exchanged pleasantries as well as a nebulous "We should work together sometime" sentiment upon parting.

16 When I saw her, we would joke and exchange pleasantries.

17 They sit together, "crippled, hating / time and the lie of general pleasantries", apparently sharing a moment of intellectual sympathy.

18 Practical requests are folded in with winning pleasantries.

19 We exchanged pleasantries and acknowledged the surprising number of couples for a singles haven.

20 After an exchange of pleasantries, Dean Chen asked why I had come back.

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