cordiality
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The spat caused unease in a country with a tradition of political cordiality, even between ideological foes.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
But everyone is going through something difficult in “Cordially,” and the lack of, well, cordiality can be wearying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
The new cordiality was on display on Wednesday when Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Jeffries were spotted exiting the speaker’s office while engaged in a friendly and businesslike discussion.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
After the meeting, Chinese and U.S. officials highlighted the cordiality of proceedings in a sign it could help open the door to more communication between the two militaries.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2022
Ishmael had stood beside her at church while she greeted her friends and acquaintances with the sort of cordiality and genuine feeling he couldn’t muster in himself.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Silicon Valley is generally considered to have a laid back Californian culture, but behind all of the polite cordialities, there rests a necessary cutthroat attitude.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2015
After brief cordialities, Tenet got down to business.
From Time Magazine Archive
To what end the house, if not for conversation, kindly manners, the entertainment of friendships, the cordialities that render the house large, and the ready receptacle of hosts and guests?
From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott
Then the visit is exchanged between friends whom perhaps the departed year had somewhat alienated; old associations are revived, and cordialities that had well nigh been forgotten are strengthened and renewed.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various
From many a page what cordialities step forth to console and to fortify us; what divine depths we come upon; what sudden vistas of sunshine through tempest-shaken shadows; what bursts of splendor through nebulous mutterings.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
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