Sentence examples for By the formality from inspiring English sources

Impressed by the formality of the occasion, he delivered his line with uncharacteristic solemnity.

If you watch it on television, you'll be amazed by the formality and verbosity of the commentators.

It felt as though the escapist exuberance of the musicals was being constrained by the formality of the occasion.

They all seem to enjoy being waited on; Ms. Anson, however, feels stifled by the formality of the day and takes a brief sabbatical in the outside world.

The relationship is underpinned by close institutional and official links, as well as by the formality of the Elysée treaty, whose 50th anniversary was celebrated in Berlin only in January.

My contact, hardly a shy-and-retiring type, said he was surprised by the formality of proceedings; he said felt initially like the new boy at school, surrounded by prefects.

Abiding by the formalities of a constitutional monarchy, Mr. Koirala today gave his resignation to the new king, Gyanendra.

There were also just under 40 executions last year, compared to the well over 400 people killed by police, most of them black, so even if we were to do away with capital punishment, we'd still have the death penalty just administered by cops without the formality of a trial.

Start by finding out the formality of this event.

"You have to understand that Fiat, before he joined the company, was very formal," he said, and Mr. Marchionne wanted to "break the formality," by replacing solid office doors with glass ones, for instance, and declining to dress up.

Perhaps a judge will be impressed by all the formalities that Mr. Killinger's lawyers listed in rising to his defense: "Washington Mutual's management structure was a model of corporate governance," they wrote.