Sentence examples for usual courtesy from inspiring English sources

The attorney general rejected the usual courtesy calls and photo ops.

His usual courtesy has gone the way of all courtship rituals.

Calling upon his usual courtesy, Vince constantly had to fend off adverse even hostile criticism.

Plimpton's usual courtesy had blanked out everything but his famous prey.

In the weeks since her nomination, Ms. Kagan has been making the usual courtesy calls to senators.

Hours later Netanyahu had a low-key meeting with Barack Obama that ended in serious disagreement and without the usual courtesy of a photographed handshake.

After we exchange the usual courtesies, she asks, "Would you like to meet Professor Singer?" She doesn't have a clue.

It dispenses with the usual courtesies of exposition; plunging you without ceremony into a drab, postwar world full of drab, postwar people whose interrelationships and experiences are entirely opaque.

In his first public comments about the new Labour leader, the prime minister said the usual courtesies had been extended to Corbyn, who has been invited to join the privy council as leader of the official opposition.

The MacDonalds had been rebels, but had taken the oath of allegiance to King William and felt safe when they received 120 soldiers with the usual Highland courtesy.

· Repeatedly in the past, when contemplating the newspaper that always used to say of Keith Vaz, "who is still a member of the government", and then of Alastair Campbell, "who is still the prime minister's director of communications", I have with my usual exquisite courtesy attributed these aspersions to "the Daily Telegraph, of which Charles Moore is still the editor".