Sentence examples for pleasantries from inspiring English sources

'What are you doing, exactly?' she says, after the socially legal minimum of pleasantries.

PH: "So nice to see our entire relationship reduced to lies and pleasantries in that letter.

A glass of port is taken, sausage rolls and pork pies consumed, pleasantries and gossip exchanged.

Given how many of them we squander on pleasantries, you'd be forgiven for forgetting their universal import.

Ellis, in Gregory's words, "wasn't the worst" and the two of them always exchange pleasantries whenever their paths cross these days, yet there were plenty of times when the Villa chairman would drive him round the bend, whether it was complaining about paying a right-back more than £10,000 a week or being stuck in a time warp.

After hollow pleasantries and firm handshakes, the conversation turned to the right to freedom of speech on issues that might affect national security.

Not that there were any cricketing pleasantries for the short ball was tried early in Trott's innings, with fielders out for the hook.

Even so, the ultimate elusiveness of language can cause machine-translation specialists to feel a touch of Weltschmerz.For example, although the NTT DoCoMo phone-call translator is fast and easy to use, it struggles even though it, too, uses a neural network with anything more demanding than pleasantries.

But before we could discuss this, before we could even exchange pleasantries, he felt a burning need to show how vigorously—how totally—he denied the allegation that had led to his downfall: that he had called a Downing Street policeman a "fucking pleb .I am not easily persuaded by politicians.

After the first pleasantries, he declared himself ready to discuss his movement's economic policies a logical response to The Economist's business card, thanks to which I have heard the economic profundities of Somali warlords and Congolese rebels.

Mrs Obama did not campaign as a traditional first lady, staring at her husband with dewy-eyed admiration and limiting her comments to bland pleasantries.