Sentences with phrase «certain niceties»

He said that BAD «Segregation is wrong because it is nothing but a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.»
«Usually, certain niceties are observed to smooth over a rupture,» said Galston, who served as a domestic policy aide in the Clinton administration.
But the numbers drop pretty fast when certain niceties are specified — such as $ 100,000 - and - up price tags, the likelihood of severe motion sickness, dizziness, and acceleration - induced unconsciousness, as well as an unknown but certainly less than trivial chance of being incinerated in a rocket explosion or errant atmospheric reentry.

Not exact matches

Yet at the same time Rosa Bonheur is forced to admit: «My trousers have been my great protectors... Many times I have congratulated myself for having dared to break with traditions which would have forced me to abstain from certain kinds of work, due to the obligation to drag my skirts everywhere...» Yet the famous artist again feels obliged to qualify her honest admission with an ill - assumed «femininity»: «Despite my metamorphoses of costume, there is not a daughter of Eve who appreciates the niceties more than I do; my brusque and even slightly unsociable nature has never prevented my heart from remaining completely feminine.»
The lack of certain popular niceties, like a headphone jack and water resistance, also make the PH - 1 a tougher sell than expected.
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