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The total price for a public marriage license, and a county-officiated marriage ceremony with witnesses, will cost a total of about $422 — not including other niceties such as flowers, tuxedos and gowns.

He’s no longer constrained by what little caution and niceties he may have once had, or by officials and staffers who managed to, at least on occasion, thwart his cruelest instincts.

He did not let the niceties of legal argument get in his way.

Perhaps that is merely a more blunt-speaking approach from a new US administration determined to do away with niceties.

But Jones and Redgrave have such a consistency in how they play these skittish lovers that it drives home the point that their cruel, untamed condition doesn’t adhere to the niceties of narrative convention.