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How to use civilities in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word civilities? Here are some examples.

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The civilities of my first years as Director, the collegiality among institutions, these are things of the past.
Argentines are quite formal in public and are very aware of proper civilities.
He was someone I could do without but who expects civilities from the likes of him?
Once she reached the door, she made a painfully pathetic attempt at civilities.
You know as well as I do that it was decreed that normal civilities don't apply to you or your cohort.
And it will, in times of crisis, conflict and confusion, serve our nostalgic yearning for the old civilities.
It may be a place of unhurried charm, with time to linger listening to g6od music and enjoy the civilities of life.
After the first civilities I mention that I would like to present few works of her husband at my gallery.
Behind all the civilities the Supreme Court is indeed engaged in a high-stakes war between its conservative majority and liberal minority.
Delivered with a minimum of preparation by a strong personality in a time of great emotional stress, a concession speech personifies the requisite civilities for social stability and legitimate political authority.
Its prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, had initiated civilities in February 1999 when he took a bus from Delhi to Lahore, capital of Pakistani Punjab, and embraced his Pakistani counterpart of the day, Nawaz Sharif.
On Wednesday 13, after having had my civilities at French of the camping I left Perth without nostalgia for the south-western coast of the Western Australian.
All we know is that civilization demands civilities.
While fighting for dominance, he paid little attention to legality or to the normal civilities of political life.
The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
Often we have to deny some of the civilities of the private sector just to ensure that we do not offend the strict expectations of Canadians concerning independence.
In other capitals which Lexington has called home Beijing, Brussels and London it would be hard to imagine. Returning to Washington after seven years, it would be easy to despair of such civilities.
Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of inner madness, a belief so irrational that even death and destruction cannot alter it.
It was because he was for the execution that the public torture frightened him: it was a sign of how quickly civilities could disintegrate under threat.
Examples from Classical Literature
Nor will I, but by distant civilities, return the compliments of any of my acquaintances.
The emperor of Blefuscu, having taken three days to consult, returned an answer consisting of many civilities and excuses.
Androcles returned at Rome the civilities which he had received from him in the deserts of Afric.
He glanced over the back of the bench, dilating his nostrils, and thought as little of exchanging civilities with me as with my companion the cat.
And so I am not to be surprized that Jane Fairfax accepts her civilities and consents to be with her.
The same civilities and courtesies, the same success and satisfaction, took place on the morrow, and accompanied the whole progress of the picture, which was rapid and happy.
Almost the same civilities were exchanged between him and the student, who listening to Don Quixote, took him to be a sensible, clear-headed person.
In the course of these civilities, a few sentences were exchanged, that served to establish the appearance of an amicable intercourse between the parties.
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