niceties

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Beyond diplomatic niceties and behind closed doors, Beijing will be looking for small, concrete achievements, analysts said, but will stay "realistically pragmatic" given Trump's unpredictable nature.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Weeks before, his predecessor, Sir Philip Barton, had worked through the formal niceties of confirming Lord Mandelson's appointment to Washington, such as writing to the King about it on the 18th of December.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

As they discuss the niceties and textual flaws of the classics they love as much as life itself, Stoppard’s playfulness is tinged with rue; the older man cannot prevent the younger’s heartbreak to come.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2025

Their brittle exchange of niceties points to a larger truth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

It would have to be quite entertainingly written, however, since, though there’s happily a small army of readers interested in verbal niceties, relatively few are interested in similar but often more important numerical nuances.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos