Sentence examples for been formal from inspiring English sources

In the United States, the Fed's independence has never been formal.

The conservative movement has grown smirking, clannish, quarrelsome; Romney has been formal, chiding, and pained.

From the beginning, in 1944, his portraiture has been formal, precise, and unfailingly elegant.

He visits me, and he's been formal and nervous, lapsing into calling me Mr Smout.

But they should know that the surest route to advancement (in what they might contemptuously refer to as the "old paradigm") has been formal training.

"I know of the name Fonix, but I cannot say if there have been formal contacts -- we have got a great number of faxes," Mr. Vanstaen said.

It's formal.

One is formal.

Everything is formal".

The dress was formal.

Most were formal.