A parched wine connoisseur who recently made a pilgrimage to St. Catherine's Monastery, at the foot of Mount Sinai, hoping for a taste of a rare cordial called moustique that the monks there have been making since the sixth century, was served Coke instead.
It was a cordial enough call, but there were some things left unsaid.
Indeed, as often as lawmakers used adjectives like "bipartisan" and "fair" to describe her, they said she's "genteel" and "cordial" or call her a "steel magnolia".
League officials described their meeting with Perez — who has since been convicted of corruption and sentenced to three years in prison — as cordial, and called Baldwin's efforts exciting for hockey fans in the region.
At the time, a UNAMID spokesperson told VICE News that the relationship between the town's residents and the stationed soldiers was "cordial" and called into question the veracity of Radio Dabanga's reporting.
Last month, Mr. Leavitt spoke with Jacob Lew, President Obama's chief of staff, about a transition, a conversation that a White House spokesman called cordial.
After an evening and a morning of what Mr. Perkins called "cordial but passionate" discussions, including presentations by advocates for each of the major candidates except former Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. of Utah, the group held a series of three secret ballots.
Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, said the president and Mr. Reid had "mostly a business relationship" that she called cordial, though Vice President Dick Cheney recently said working with Mr. Reid had been difficult.
The two spoke the same day by phone in what an aide called a cordial conversation — one of at least 30 calls to senators Mr. Hagel has made this week in preparation for his hearing — but on Tuesday on CNN Mr. McCain had not changed his tone.
The call was cordial and did not leave Mr. Zelnick anxious despite the implications for his company.
