cordiality
- n a cordial disposition
- Craig Gillespie's direction is a little too attentive to the physical drabness of the setting, the slow pulse of north-country life, the locals' constipated cordiality.
- They are ruled over by a mom (Kathy Bates) who is an overbearing monster of cordiality, and are lost in a time warp more preposterous than Schmidt's: they still live like '60s .
- It seems immoral to us that we should be negotiating in the atmosphere of cordiality and frankness that has characterized our meetings while there are Africans and Portuguese .