Sentence examples for Byzantine etiquette from inspiring English sources

I have a cursory mastery of the byzantine etiquette of greeting and parting, of bargaining in the open market, of talking politics when my interlocutor and I are on opposite poles of the spectrum and both of us are armed.

The bureaucracy is Byzantine.

It's very Byzantine".

4. Byzantine.

Sound a bit byzantine?

Liquidation etiquette.

Strict etiquette.

Still, the decisions are byzantine.

Others dwell in the Byzantine.

He ridiculed Iconoclastic Byzantine emperors.

She is Machiavellian and Byzantine.