I don't want to spend all night sitting here, making polite conversation, trying to figure out what he wants from me.

I said like a man trying to make polite conversation.

Perhaps he would simply like you to be able to make polite conversation.

This is not the kind of guy who makes polite conversation.

She couldn't care less about the rules of polite conversation.

All she'd done was to make a bit of polite conversation!

Even so, there was not much that could be said, other than polite conversation.

After some polite conversation, she came right to the point.

Or with us, if we ask for anything more than polite conversation.

The woman had said this as though it were part of any polite conversation.