Sentence examples for formal character from inspiring English sources

It is evident that the resolution is forced by the political will and has a formal character.

While Protestant rites were less ceremonial than the Roman Catholic liturgies they replaced, almost everywhere they retained a more or less formal character.

The title was given a formal character in 1520 and, under Charles I (1516 56; Holy Roman emperor as Charles V), the number of grandees was limited to 25.

In the realm of ethics, phenomenologists and existentialists were dissatisfied with the purely formal character of Kant's ethics—i.e., with its lack of specificity and substituted a "material" ethic, of concrete duties, which was no less absolute than that of Kant.

Throughout his career, Morgan remained aware of the formal character of his program.

One of the main traits of the consequence relations we study in logic is their formal character.

The garden synthesizes Italian, French and English styles in a highly crafted series of spaces, many of them formal in character and layered with symbolism and narrative.

Some of these linkages had a more formal, structured character.

But there is another more pertinent detail — a strangely formal two-character phrase — that appears next to a disproportionate number of names:, sang'ou, meaning "bereaved of one's spouse".

Movements were usually robust and sometimes surprising, as when, after gesturing with formal dignity, a character unexpectedly blew his nose.

Yet, Kant openly admitted that, according to the letter of his approach, human freedom possesses a merely "formal" or "noumenal" character.