nicety

This was no time for bureaucratic niceties; it was a moment of peril.

Niceties of what you say like "I'm glad to meet you" and who gets introduced to whom can come later when these basics are firmly in place.

By his own admission, he "had little patience" for constitutional niceties.

The constitutional niceties were observed for just a few hours.

By the end of his life, Vieira de Mello had junked the Marxism and anti-Americanism of his youth, as well as the niceties of UN procedure.

Tuples are not a game-changing feature, just another one of those "niceties" that makes Scala a powerful language to use.

Muntarbhorn dropped any diplomatic niceties as he rounded on the regime's treatment of its own people.

As his friends and enemies knew, Irwin was a rough-and-tumble fighter in the courts and was not noted for ethical niceties.

Recent revelations suggest that many lenders rode roughshod over legal niceties to push delinquent borrowers out of their homes.

If there are fewer potential mates around, men may delay marriage or forgo it entirely, losing out on these nuptial niceties.

Never mind Hyacinth-Bucket niceties of napkins over serviettes, class matters more, not less, than it did' . . . Keeping Up Appearances.

Gone were the flowery niceties of democratic theory. Back again was the reality of brutal suppression.

There shouldn't be too many surprises here, other than some of the niceties that the javac compiler added on your behalf.

Some might regard the suspension of the usual hypocritical niceties as an admirable embrace of plain speaking.

Other niceties include a built-in electronic lens cover, a LANC connector, and a flash for still photos.

When an overexcited management purchases a business at a silly price, the same accounting niceties described earlier are observed.

And the standard of the reasonable commercial person is hostile to technical interpretations and undue emphasis on niceties of language.

iText allows you to create watermarks, encrypt the document, and other output niceties.

Never mind Hyacinth Bucket niceties of napkins over serviettes, class matters more not less than it did, and it needs saying loudly.

Bloggers and tweeters, who tend to disregard such niceties as proof or accuracy, make enforcement of the privacy laws harder.

a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame , provided a man is smart in the things that matters .

He was a lawyer, and had a venerable respect for the niceties of MI5's processes.

And to point out that Aristotle surely never thought of all these niceties, has nothing to do with the question!

Google set about scanning the world's books, confident that it could deal with the niceties of copyright law later.

After the first month of adjustment, I learned that the place offered the niceties of home without the watchful eye of parents.

Why isn't there ever a bloodthirsty sociopath with dictatorial powers and no regard for legal niceties around when you need one?

She Really Needs To Tone Down On The Social Niceties.

Two powerful factors are working to support commodity prices that may resist such niceties as fundamental supply and demand.

It is odd that the Queen's online persona is administered by an empire based in America, with scant regard for constitutional niceties.

But, in reality, politics trumps legal niceties when member nations negotiate among themselves in the council.

Never mind the niceties of string theory and its implications for physics.

That process was also helped along by the rule of law and other niceties in Western societies.

Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law.

Mr Howard declared that children's welfare comes before "constitutional niceties" . But there are certainly political risks.

Dominic Couzens explains the niceties of starling dining etiquette .

Long-established niceties of face-to-face behaviour haven't yet taken hold online and, in the absence of precedent, we have to wing it.

Dirac's overwhelming concern was mastering not social niceties, then, but the fundamental laws of nature.

Voldemort used the Imperious Curse to force Harry to bow and obey the other niceties of dueling.

Most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely and lacking in social niceties.

But many shipping firms are not bothered by such niceties, says Nicky Gregson, a geographer at Sheffield University.

Soon after these niceties, Julie assigns me my first chore of the day.

Most things you consider evil are simply lonely and lacking social niceties.

Most things you consider evil are simply lonely and lacking in social niceties.

Attentive to or concerned with details or niceties, often excessively so; meticulous or fussy.

The niceties of iron ore pricing can struggle to command attention.

It is time for leaders to bury their caste loyalty and anachronistic niceties and buy more talent in.

And in any case, he is unlikely to be deterred by diplomatic niceties .

And the niceties of national and provincial park campsites?

With all due respect , General, can the niceties ! If this is a court - martial , then court- martial me !

Such niceties are interesting to experts.

The niceties of law were abandoned, with dozens put on trial in military courts.

Now there is no more time for niceties.

But fans of Freedom are not concerned by such philosophical niceties; they use it because it makes them more productive.

I can't go into all the niceties of meaning.

Either way, as Sakhalin proves, the Kremlin evidently feels it can afford to dispense with the niceties .

As for the legal niceties, we paid her off.

The niceties of civilized life.

but if you ever want to get to a point where you can afford all the little niceties in life, you need to make it happen.

I don't like him because he doesn't follow any rules for social niceties.

THERE are two kinds of Arab sovereign: those who rule from behind a veil of constitutional niceties and those who dispense with the veils.

Fully 70 percent of residential water in southern California is used outside the home for lawns, pools, and other niceties.

He would generously loan his younger brother his tapes and lecture him on the niceties of behaviour;

"He . . . knew all niceties of the sock and buskin" (Byron)

come on , now , harry . the niceties must be observed