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Example sentences for: pleasantries

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For much of the first hour, Redgrave's Clarissa Dalloway drifts around a sunny, post-World War I London, talking excitedly of a party to take place at her home that evening, exchanging formal pleasantries with various aristocrats, and moving in and out of her memories.
There were no pleasantries between them.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, he lowered his voice and asked, “What do you think of Martha and I as a potential twosome?”
However, your point is taken that well-meaning pleasantries should be accepted for what they are, and Prudie's New Year's resolution is to chill when it comes to banalities.
) After other introductory pleasantries Shaw confessed, “I had an axe of my own to grind; and I thought that Professor Wilson's book might help me to grind it.”