With the public backing of players such as Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald and Ian Poulter, McGinley won the day but admitted recently his conversations with Clarke were now "short and sweet" and amounted to little more than passing pleasantries.
The Nets were clearing off the practice floor at the Champion Center on Friday afternoon when Dallas Coach Don Nelson and his players streamed into the gym, stopping to exchange pleasantries as they passed.
DENVER — Matt Harvey and Stephen Strasburg have exchanged only pleasantries, quick hellos as they passed each other at a California training facility run by the agency they share.
The holidays passed this year in November and December without such pleasantries.
Grant sat in a folding chair, leaning forward on a cane and uttering pleasantries to passing young women: "Hey, looking good, baby.
Again, as I am questioned I count around 6 other British White citizens who are met with cheery grins, English pleasantries and pass through the adjacent queue with such ease.
The two men shared pleasantries and well-wishes also on birthdays "which often were bitter-sweet, as it reminded us that another year in jail had passed".
In doing so Peel said that he was convinced of the existence of gross mismanagement in his own factories, and having no time to set them in order himself, was getting an Act of Parliament passed to do it for him but (given his dealings with the Manchester Board of Health) this may well have been a pleasantry, rather than the whole truth.
It was delightful to engage in conversations that lasted longer than the time it takes to get to the lobby from an elevator ride or the pleasantries we exchange passing through the front door.
Now that she has arrived, no sartorial pleasantry of hers is allowed by the trade to pass unobserved.
Mostly, they exchanged pleasantries for a few minutes twice daily; each Wednesday, they went together to Woodside Management on Roosevelt Avenue, passing $700 apiece under the bulletproof glass to Sabur, the dispatcher.
