Sentence examples for a pretty formal from inspiring English sources

It used to be a pretty formal place".

But I thought that I had created a pretty formal opera with a thoughtful concept.

Some of us would resist going farther afield there, however, than the Parrish Art Museum, which has "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age" and a pretty, formal, enclosed garden to satisfy any lingering back-to-nature needs.

This is a pretty formal distinction, so you can ignore it if you please.

And my wife had O.K.'d the shorts (though she herself wore a very pretty formal dress; it was her friend who was marrying, after all).

The early poems are generally pretty formal, dainty and slightly constrained – though often beautiful.

"How to hell are you?" That was pretty formal and respectful compared to the reception Addison would have given an uncrowned intimate.

But given that he died in 1952 and his daughter the queen seems pretty formal, it seems implausible that he cast protocol to the winds like a proto-Diana in trousers.Equally, for most of the film, Logue is shown using impertinence as a clinical tool, calling his royal patient "Bertie" or lounging on a throne to provoke the king's stutter away.

While the format may look pretty formal to the average Western eye, it will follow the accepted format of a Q&A, common in the Russian media.

Likewise, Facebook and Evite allow you to make future plans, but both are still pretty formal and are based around the idea of the RSVP.

The Golden Globes are pretty formal, all about film and television, of course.