Sentence examples for formal lines from inspiring English sources

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

Although Mr. Dinowitz has no formal lines, he and Mr. Fiennes "chat animatedly as they walk through the ballroom," according to the script.

Murray sticks to the cheerfully formal lines that distinguish his work while letting his voice shift between chestnuts of local dialect and a brawny but humble standard English.

The fashion show, too, was something else, devised extravagantly in deliberate defiance of the formal lines and stiff styles of the haute couture of the day.

Franz West's Garden Pouf is a zigzag sculpture you are encouraged to touch, and which contrasts wilfully with the more formal lines of surrounding buildings.

Lithgow is particularly fine at giving even the most formal lines an air of spontaneity and he's alarmingly impassioned in a late monologue.

Its concerns are often entirely formal: line, color, mass and weight.

United States military officials said there was no formal line of communication between the Joint Chiefs and the Egyptian military, although they held out that possibility if the crisis deepened.

That style makes breaking and ballet look like obvious bedfellows; feeds popping and voguing into formal line and structure; quotes Balanchine's "Apollo" alongside the many-armed images of Hindu deities; juxtaposes Martha Graham and José Lim��n, Isadora Duncan and step dance.

The elevation of Helton to Nascar's presidency formalizes the role he has played for more than a year, but it also signals the organization's need for a formal line of succession in light of France's uncertain health.

The result is a work community where everyone knows everyone else, and there is no need for formal line-management systems or name badges; everyone is committed to each other and to the communal vision.