Siggelkow protested, but Cheever demanded he leave immediately, and when the student glanced up from the bottom of the stairs, Cheever was looking down at him with a forced, cordial, miserable smile (this a matter of "New England breeding," Siggelkow figured).
Our waiter was smiling and cordial, our water was filled again and again without our asking, and the exuberance of fellow diners was palpable.
Smiles, handshakes and cordial greetings were common.
Thomas seemed at peace with his decision, smiling through a cordial news conference, looking for all the world as if the feuds and frustrations that often vexed him during 16 years with the White Sox were now ancient, irrelevant history.
But the smiling staff and cordial owners of the spotless storefront at 540 Westbury Avenue (516-333-3434) simply askedinersrs to please return at another time to pay their bills if they didn't have enough money on hand.
As I mentioned, they bring in a new shift of chefs every three months and I met several, all smiling, young and cordial, with almost no English.
The two were cordial, but McCain would get that forced smile on his face whenever they were together".
The elderly nurses turned cordial, and even Matron gave me a pained smile.
The tone of the hearing, which will continue Thursday, was polite and cordial, with Mr. Mukasey answering questions in a calm, even voice and smiling occasionally at a senator's turn of phrase.
"She smiled and said, 'How do you do?' in an extraordinarily cordial tone, in which none the less something final was conveyed – the certainty that they would never speak again".
"I'm open seven days a week and if anything, the Orthodox walk by on Saturdays and we smile and say 'Good Sabbath.' " Relationships in residential neighborhoods are sometimes a little less cordial.
