Примери за pleasantry

• Why then, might a man of the cloth devote his time and his intellect so consistently to the production of games and pleasantries?

• With the workers there were no pleasantries, and yelling was his standard mode of speech.

• There were few pleasantries in the years following, however, as each national expedition competed with the other in order to claim the continent.

• I look forward to that fraternal occasion, so perhaps we may reserve the further exchange of pleasantries until then.

• There were no party scores in it, apart from a few little pleasantries which always enliven his speeches.

• Or is he waiting to see how long he can sit on the fence, with pleasantry in place of policy?

• This is not the time for those pleasantries.

• Let us get the pleasantries out of the way.

• At any rate, we enjoyed his amiable pleasantries and his underlying seriousness.

• This is not a time for cliche-ridden pleasantries about their contribution.

• After pleasantries have been exchanged about names, the weather and where people live, the conversation usually turns to asking people what work they do.

• Apart from the interchange of pleasantries in this debate, we have had running through it the undertone of a long-term policy.

• They are certainly the end of the social pleasantries.

• However, with the pleasantries over, let us go to battle.

• That is of course at least a pleasantry, but it commands some very powerful recognition of a golden thread that runs through all those religions.