The choreography is remarkable for its amalgam of cold formality and feral wildness, its subtly suspenseful timing, and the excellent cast made all of these elements crackle.
He insists that his name is Paul and starts addressing his mother (Isabelle Huppert), with cold formality, by her first name, which is Ariane.
(Truffaut did it, with a cold, businesslike formality).
Police officers spilled out of cars and vans and lined up in formation in the middle of the street, briefly blocking the morning rush, shrugging against the cold with the awkward blend of formality and routine that comes with memorializing a complete stranger.
Such expulsions, which were a regular feature of the Cold War, have taken on the air of ritualized formality, and represent more symbol than substance.
It's not that friends find him cold or unhelpful; it's just that Barzun exudes a formality that inhibits the exchange of intimate confidences.
During the cold war, the processes of international politics were frozen in formality; when the wall came down, old enemies suddenly came together to resolve seemingly intractable conflicts, in South Africa, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
For me, the formality of the choreography was a little off-putting, cold, although always searchingly intelligent.
Forget about formalities.
Prescriptions are mere formalities.
