formal courtesy
Example Sentences
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The campaign began on April 6 when Mr. Brown paid a formal courtesy visit to Queen Elizabeth II, asking her to dissolve Parliament.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2010
At the hands of the Press, II Benito received not even formal courtesy.
From Time Magazine Archive
She took his jests with an air of formal courtesy, barely smiling.
From A Prairie Infanta by Brodhead, Eva Wilder
The crust of formal courtesy and commonplaces was broken through by Hitzig's pithy answer, to a question asking his opinion about some newly-arrived colleague, that he was "a man in buckram."
From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
"You flatter me by asking my counsel—you who know the country, whereas I am a stranger," said Burnet, adopting the chief's manner of formal courtesy.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
