comity

Even now, we need to be sure of her professed commitment to strengthen the legal and economic foundations of working- and middle-class security and comity.

Flav’s enthusiasm is not as staged, making news-grabbing moves like his guarantee to help American discus thrower Veronica Fraley pay her rent come off as legitimately generous and in the Games’ spirit of comity.

Decades ago, right-wing political quacks like Newt Gingrich concluded that comity and compromise on the part of politicians made the government look too good, as if it could actually work.

He said the step clashed with an international concept of the “comity of nations,” which recognizes that countries’ laws have territorial limits.

It’s also possible to engage in probing conversations and push back against inconsistencies without abandoning any earned sense of comity with the other person.