Sentence examples for formal kind from inspiring English sources

A long, formal kind of yawn.

"They want their principal in their classrooms as often as possible, but that is a less formal kind of system".

Scott Wheeler tells us that he is a jazz pianist as well as a composer of the more formal kind.

Buddhism introduced a more formal kind of sitting on stiff, higher chairs with back rests and with or without side arms.

When Roethke tried to return to a more explicit and formal kind of poetry, the limits of his sensibility were harshly exposed.

Employment is what everyone wants, but employment (at least of the formal kind) is the very thing that is denied you as a refugee.

There were, for instance, several works devoted to more formal kinds of love, including the sacred, in works by Henryk Gorecki and John Tavener, and the courtly, in a selection of madrigals from "The Triumphes of Oriana," written in praise of Elizabeth I.

On the Demarcater's view, logicians who investigate the (non-formal) kind of "validity" possessed by \(\refp{chicago-north}\) are straying from the proper province of logic into some neighboring domain (here, geography or lexicography; in other cases, mathematics or metaphysics).

He speaks in a determined, formal Sidney Poitier kind of English, his voice low and soft and mellowed by Marlboros.

Malick's films have more voice-over commentary and narration, mostly of a formal, literary kind, than they have dialogue.

The Kulm is breathtakingly elegant and formal, the kind of grand hotel one would expect to find in Paris or Vienna.