Sentence examples similar to documentary formalities from inspiring English sources

There is still a kind of documentary formality in setting out to record the sound of your parents' voices — a formality that has vanished entirely from photography.

Just as Nâzım Hikmet chose a plain, documentary style rather than the formality of traditional Turkish poetry in order to achieve a heightened sense of realism, Panahi's Taxi, with its artfully staged "reality," is a coy response to the new technological naïveté.

Prescriptions are mere formalities.

Still, some formalities apply.

Forget about formalities.

Documentary prose?

documentary photography".

The pre-match formalities.

A documentary.

But the formalities were brief.

These, however, are usually formalities.