Niceties

According to Archer's testimony, the phone calls never included business talk; rather, it was about the weather and niceties.

He goes the way he wants to go, legalities and niceties be damned.

That the words her co-stars so often used to describe her – “professional”, “committed”, “a perfectionist” – were coded, or ambiguous niceties to cover up the fact that she was a teen-queen-from-hell.

The 30-year-old Amritpal does not have pretensions or niceties when it comes to his core beliefs.

The GLB comes with basic crash-avoidance tech, though adaptive cruise control, active blind-spot assist, and a few other niceties are optional.

The seller notes that both the heat and the A/C are in working order and the truck comes with such niceties as power windows and locks, cruise control, and that extra CD player.

To them it’s for vote catching not that they are schooled in such economic niceties.

But even if you put a higher price on social niceties than I do – you’d want to pick the first one every time.

But the holocaust in Gaza has obviated such niceties.

Electoral rivalries have not always changed into niceties when campaigns finish, either – had a famously frosty walk back in 2019.

He added: ‘On the evening Tom wrapped his role, he characteristically left without ceremony or niceties, simply walking out of the door.

It certainly is amazing how quickly California’s Democrats dispensed with the niceties as soon as the stakes got high.

It’s as if she didn’t believe in punctuation or the niceties of conversation; it soon becomes clear she has next to no patience for Rachel.

She began by surprising Trump with a handshake before they took to their lecterns, but the niceties soon ended.

The truck comes equipped with tons of niceties, which is good considering how expensive it is.

Diplomatic niceties aside, China is unlikely to forget that its most important strategic partner cannot be relied on in times of need.

He travelled to Zamfara where the governor treated him to the niceties of princes.

Normally a “cease-and-desist” letter suffices – and plenty have been sent – but the president, or his campaign team, seem unconcerned with such niceties.

She added that many students cannot be truly genuine in their social circles or everyday conversations because of social niceties, or things people say or do just because they are considered polite.

Think of it as the resurgence of a warrior ethic unwilling to be tamped down by the niceties of liberal civilization.