That is a little pleasantry of the gods.

I gave him the smile that little pleasantry was worth, which wasn't much.

A little pleasantry on my part, that is all.

"That was one of Andy's little pleasantries," Guilderpost told her.

I called you back for some more serious purpose than to mix you up with our little domestic pleasantries.

He offered me none of his usual little jaunty French pleasantries, only a perfunctory sign of respect for my royal rank.

Athos did not smile at this little pleasantry which Planchet had aimed at him to try his strength in fashionable humor.

Screwless vs screwed: The so-called screwless case is perhaps one of life's little pleasantries.

Women with whom he had exchanged little pleasantries hoped for more.

"But he is on the high-road to those little pleasantries."