Sentence examples for formal choice from inspiring English sources

However cool and informal a black windbreaker may look, it still represents a safe, formal choice.

And Megan makes the most traditional, formal choice for a dress.

But in truth the British presidency has achieved little that was not preordained, such as the formal choice of countries to join the euro and the start of talks with the five leading eastern candidates for joining the EU.

Perhaps the new palette came naturally to him because, as the art historian Debora Silverman argued in her superb study of a decade ago, "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art," his motives were essentially religious; he saw it not as a formal choice but as a conversion experience.

He'd already chosen it before, on our wedding day, but the noise and bustle of our blended family drowned out the power of that first, formal choice.

Along with giving patients a formal choice of where they receive secondary care in 2006, the government also introduced a paperless referral system (Department of Health, 2009 a 2009a).

Throughout her work, Munro is daring in this way — daring with the truth, and daring in her formal choices.

Traditional selections like calf's liver and filet mignon are offered along with less formal choices — hamburgers, salmon burgers, lobster sliders and beef kebabs.

This sense of freedom is produced by Ashbery's diction (no American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound) as well as his formal choices.

Vendler's new book, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (Harvard University Press, $35), is an attempt to explain, as she puts it, "the inner and outer formal choices Yeats made, the cultural significance his forms bore for him," and "the way his forms... became the material body of his thoughts and emotions".

In a book that sets out to explain why a poet makes particular formal choices, however, the mistake is more serious, because it replaces the complex relationships among a poem's elements with just-so stories in which it always turns out — surprise!