Sentence examples for excessively formal from inspiring English sources
He's very particular about language, and speaks in a way that can feel excessively formal.
The excessively formal language is a burden to many businessmen, especially those working in small companies.
But he admitted that he was torn, arguing that sometimes signoffs felt "excessively formal" for something thumbed on your phone.
There are times, when employed in a temporary bar job (as I once was), for example, when colleague may seem excessively formal.
The emir issued an edict banning ornate and excessively formal writing in government documents; the beginning of a modern Persian prose style dates from this time.
Brazilians have traditionally regarded Argentines as arrogant and excessively formal, while Argentines have tended to look down on Brazilians as darker happy-go-lucky inferiors wallowing in tropical indolence.
The issue was quickly controlled, however, by an exchange of formal, excessively polite letters that fail to conceal the complete lack of warmth between the men.
A former assistant, writing in an English newspaper last year, recalled Valerie's distaste for members of the "Ph.D. industry" and her "dry, formal, excessively polite notes giving them the least help possible".
"So not excessively excessive.
But in 2006, a reconstituted court issued a ruling that favored the sighted, saying that restricting people's choice of jobs by government directive — the prohibition was not then a formal law — was "excessively" discriminatory.
