niceties

But niceties such as existing law and precedent may not always stand in the way.

A vegan who smokes medicinal herbs and has no time for Midwestern niceties, Robyn has had many lives.

Diplomatic niceties suggest if you meet one candidate in a foreign election contest, you meet the other one too.

"The law is so interested in procedural niceties and procedural complexities that it loses really what's at stake in the case."

For example, you do not engage in conversations based on “mutual respect” and “the free exchange of ideas” and such niceties and quaint idealized assumptions with enemies of democracy.