Sentence examples for fairly formal from inspiring English sources

With perhaps 20,000 military businesses throughout China, the largest were run along fairly formal lines.

Maybe because my cinema is fairly formal, my approach to narrative is probably more European.

Dress will be fairly formal, with men in coats and ties or the shirts known as guayaberas and women in cocktail dresses.

The content of the letter should be fairly formal, you can definitely direct their attention to your former tenure with the firm, but don't dwell on it.

He stood and seemed to bow as she approached the table, a fairly formal gesture for a place that specialized in artisanal scrapple.

Professor Ben Polak: So today we have a lot of stuff to get through, but it's all going to be fairly formal.

Atmosphere: Fairly simple, moderately formal dining room; exceptional service.

It was difficult because "relationships with businessmen would tend to be somewhat formal and guarded" and because it was "doubtful" if a woman could stand the "fairly severe strains".

"The rant is an interesting genre, in that there's a lot of emotional amplitude, but generally, fairly rigid formal constraints," Jonathan Beecher Field, the author of a new book about 17th-century dissent called "Errands Into the Metropolis," pointed out by e-mail.

But he said he still hoped the White House would make a formal nomination "fairly soon".

Well into the first year of the recession, he marched forward as planned with a fairly expensive and rather formal restaurant in Chelsea.