Sentence examples for conventional niceties from inspiring English sources

Mr. Wellman's script (or at the least the 11th draft, tucked into my press kit) does away with conventional niceties like names.

To complain that he isn't always polite feels irrelevant: Eisenberg seems to dwell on a different mental sphere, one far away from conventional niceties.

Whatever conventional concert hall niceties were lacking — chiefly printed texts and translations — were outweighed by the idea that this piece reached a large, culturally diverse audience.

Maybe not, but its disregard for the niceties of conventional taste makes one more aware of the decorousness that otherwise prevails.

He behaves like some great tribal chieftain, a warlord of art, riding roughshod over the niceties of conventional behavior, sometimes sulking in his tent, sometimes rousing his people to great heights, now making huge strategic decisions off the cuff, now mysteriously absenting himself".

The New Yorker, September 6 , 1999P. 78 Briefly Noted review of "Road Atlas" (Ecco; $23) by Campbell McGrath... McGrath's poems are as fluent about fatherhood as they are about travel, and in their syntactic innovation and rhetorical ambition they challenge the niceties of more conventional free verse.

Even There Will Be Blood, his previous Day-Lewis collaboration and biggest box office success (though still bringing in a fairly modest $40 million domestic), is a spectacularly idiosyncratic piece of work played in an often off-putting key, impudently thumbing its nose at conventional redemption arcs and the niceties of prestige drama.

No niceties.

Niceties mean nothing.

Totalitarianism stands above such niceties.

Such niceties no longer apply.