Sentence examples for a formality of from inspiring English sources

Our advocacy of human freedom is not a formality of diplomacy.

A formality of diction is intermingled with contemporary vernacular phrasing, a purposeful anachronism that is mirrored in the body language of the actors.

But Copland's settings, from 1948 to '50, also relied on a formality of expression and structure that would have seemed entirely natural to Dickinson's 19th-century sensibilities.

He was a good-natured man who combined a formality of manner sometimes evocative of the constipated behaviour of his comic creations with an instinct for the warm and life-enhancing aspects of writing and direction.

But, on the whole — and we must state this clearly, we all know it — this decision was treated as a formality of sorts, because the territory was transferred within the boundaries of a single state.

Even so, a professional performance in what should prove a formality of the return next Tuesday and Liverpool, seeded and warming up nicely, will be one stage away from the Champions League proper.

LAFAYETTE, La. — This is expected to be a formality, one of the lawyers said, a simple affirmation of what has already been put on paper.

"Proof of Claim" notices are a required formality of an Assignment process.

At a last formality of identification, he gestured to a copy of the Constitution of 1793 and said, "I am the one who made that".

Our stand for human freedom is not an empty formality of diplomacy but a founding and guiding principle of this great land.

It was a formality, preceding the formality of the state-by-state roll call that the party's rules have not got around to eliminating.