Sentence examples for almost cordial from inspiring English sources

"It was almost cordial," Paula recalled: " 'We have your son.

Until then relations between the POWs and the camp commandant had been almost cordial; he was subsequently court-martialled for allowing the escape attempt to happen.

The former German chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, in a 1996 memoir, said of Mr. Gierek and the Hungarian leader Janos Kadar: "Both were longtime Communists, but reasonable human beings -- and in private very open and almost cordial.

In the same month, Stahlecker of Einsatzgruppe A wrote that Army Group North had been exemplary in co-operating with the exterminations and that relations with the 4th Panzer Army, commanded by General Erich Hoepner, were "very close, almost cordial".

All involved were most cordial.

This wasn't the only time people were almost too cordial when I wore this shirt.

The New Yorker, June 1 , 1957P. 21 Letter from the Walt Disney studio to a 9-year-old boy: Dear Mr. L---: In regard to your letter, we have been gratified by an almost unanimously cordial response to the Mousketeers.

By Sylvia Leff and John McCarten The New Yorker, June 1 , 1957P. 21 Letter from the Walt Disney studio to a 9-year-old boy: Dear Mr. L---: In regard to your letter, we have been gratified by an almost unanimously cordial response to the Mousketeers.

Mr Museveni feels slighted by his former subordinate, for not showing him the respect due to an elder.The mood at the meeting in London was cordial, almost like a family gathering: many of the Rwandan bigwigs have Ugandan wives or relations, and vice versa.

Cordial, almost formal talks about current affairs consume much time, as the family debates British politics and the latest developments in the Middle East with a detached coolness that shifts suddenly into breast beating when matters of a more personal nature are engaged.

Most were cordial but curt.