This accounted, I suspect, for the elaborate courtesies he showed new guests.

There was elaborate courtesy, and thick cups of Turkish coffee.

Then he said with elaborate courtesy, "You shall know the moment I do.

He received them with elaborate courtesy and insisted on their sitting in the only two comfortable chairs in the room.

He held open the car door with elaborate courtesy.

When the judges who sit on them disagree, they ordinarily address each other with elaborate courtesy.

He handed the parole up to Windham who took it with elaborate courtesy.

In the early 1980s, clerics were generally treated with elaborate courtesy.

"Of course, if you prefer," he added with elaborate courtesy, "I could take a shuttle out front and tow the ship."

Killers we may be, more often than not, but the true dance is founded in elaborate courtesy.