Usually his butler was quite fastidious about such social pleasantries.

Spock had not failed to notice Saavik's progress in the use of conventional social pleasantries.

Dean entered and sat down with a bare minimum of social pleasantries.

There were no social pleasantries to open the meeting.

The meeting had barely gotten past the usual social pleasantries so necessary for a conference of cutthroats.

And he's either uninterested in or incapable of even minor social pleasantries.

The circumstances have taken us so far beyond social pleasantries.

But he must also know games, the social pleasantries.

It was a promise rather than the usual social pleasantry.

He doubted he would ever sleep well again, or engage in social pleasantries.