pleasantries

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Twenty years ago, founders proudly eschewed fashion and decorum, too busy writing code and devising a new world order to bother with pleasantries, like basic manners and French cuffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

He could order in French and exchange pleasantries with an elderly French waiter who seemed to live there.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Wiener said she had known Pretti for around five years and would exchange pleasantries with him over the fence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 2026

The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2025

I’ll just rush them out the door, make clear that there’s no time for pleasantries.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen