The General himself could not have uttered his piquant pleasantries in a blither tone than I did my impulsive defence of the right of private judgment.
The embarrassment in my thoughts extended suddenly to my body, and I asked myself the next minute if Sally contrasted my heavy silence with the blithe self-confidence and the sportive pleasantries of Ned Marshall?
And doubtless these continual pleasantries helped to reassure the landsmen, who went to and fro unmoved, under circumstances that might have daunted Nelson.
One of my pleasantries even went the round of San Francisco, and I have heard it (myself all unknown) bandied in saloons.
The connection was so well established that "a glass of Buckle" or "a bottle of civilisation" became current pleasantries on board the Currency Lass.
Though quite a distinguished chemist, Vermut was the object of the pleasantries and contemptuous remarks of the Soudry salon, especially at the hands of the Gourdons.
He obtained some success with the ladies by his sarcastic pleasantries in the fashion of the eighteenth century.
The usual number of pleasantries and hobbling verses which tend to nothing.
One who consorts but little with his fellows, and who is rather noted for the silence and industry with which he attends to his concerns, than for any of the usual pleasantries and trifling of men of his cast.
This cautious interruption of the pleasantries of the official was acknowledged by a low reverence, and the matter proceeded.
As to this stranger--quickly, thy mask and cloak--depart as if thou wert merely a friend bent on some of the idle pleasantries of the hour.
The big man chuckled, coughed, sputtered; his enormous carcass shook with merriment at the pleasantries of the other; and he ended by buying six casks of claret from Loiseau to be delivered in spring, after the departure of the Prussians.
It would be well to be on one's guard, especially as he received all pleasantries with unruffled calmness.
She had been watching this exchange of pleasantries with approval.
His social pleasantries instantly antagonized her, and he saw it.
But he atoned for this by one of the daintiest pleasantries that ever occurred to his playful mind.
He preferred to invent paragraphic pleasantries for the world at large and indulge his personal humor in the office, at home, or with personal friends.
As the pantechnicon rumbled its ponderous way through hamlet and village, Bindle lightly tossed a few pleasantries to the rustics who stood aside to gaze at what, to them, constituted an incident in the day's monotony of motor-cars and dust.
He exchanged pleasantries with anyone who showed the least inclination towards camaraderie, and the dour he silenced with caustic rejoinder.
The neighbours turned out in force, and Bindle exchanged pleasantrieswith them, whilst Mrs. Bindle smiled in what was to her an entirely prodigal manner.
It may be objected that people in real life, even in the higher life of the Upper Ten, do not habitually scatter sprightly pleasantriesabroad as they sit around the five-o'clock tea-table.
The playwright, as he progresses in his art, does not here permit himself to endanger the interest of the plot by any adventitious pleasantries on the part of the characters.
Scarcely was he gone, when the Cardinal of Boulogne, making pleasantries on the word phoenix, turned into ridicule both the praises of Cabassole and him who was their object.
I sometimes direct a few sharp pleasantries at this disposition.
Francesco Bruni, in writing to Petrarch about the kindness of the one Cardinal, thought it unnecessary to report the pleasantries of the other.
He could no longer separate them in his mind, and he saw them blended in reality, the affection imparting a certain seriousness and importance to the pleasantries which, in return, spoiled the affection of its innocence.
Apparently the Earl of Murray had made some jest, for the smiling countenances of the statesmen expressed that sort of cordial reception which is paid by courtiers to the condescending pleasantries of a prince.
Is it the usage, friend Hofmeister," demanded the baron, "to enjoy these admirable pleasantries often here in Vaud?
Pleasantries often turn upon something much more difficult to define than to feel--upon some nicety of regard, or neatness of proportion.
Puns also restrict the pleasantries dependent on them to one country, no great loss perhaps, though the greater part of German humour is thus rendered obscure.
The cynical pleasantries of the Walpole circle, dealing with the case of Mrs. Abington and young Sheridan, were echoed by the inferior wits of the Pump Room--for the flare of a comet affects other systems besides the solar.
Miss Betsy neither opposed nor gave consent to what her guardian said on this score; but her not refusing seemed to him a sufficient grant: so there passed nothing more, except some little pleasantries usual on such subjects.
Of course these pleasantries are only carried on in the absence of the demonstrator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasantries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
