The evening's main event was a formal silver-service dinner of fusion European/Asian cuisine, while the train plunged into the night through rings of fire.
The dress was a long, formal silver-gray knit that would have fallen beautifully over my mother's elegant eighty-year-old body had she ever worn it.
Having lost his nose in a duel, Brahe (in fact as well as fiction) wears a prosthetic one, copper for everyday and silver on formal occasions.
The Democrats are to start their organizing caucus on Jan . 3with the formal election of Mr. Silver, who selects a new majority leader and makes other leadership appointments.
"Several witnesses advised that Mr Warner stated that the cash had originated with Mr Bin Hammam and the cash was given to them at Mr Warner's suggestion, instead of a more formal gift, such as silver or a plate," says the report.
Much activity took place in advance of the formal opening as the silver and (vastly outnumbered) gold forces prepared their strategies.
To be fair, the formal china, crystal and silver stayed in storage up north for a couple of years after we moved to Puerto Rico (I only brought the everyday stuff), and made its reappearance when we got a condo in the DC area a few years ago.
Formal dining rooms, stiff service, silver cloches – high-end hotel restaurants of yore wouldn't satisfy modern culinary cravings.
THE track is fast, the turf is firm," the announcer proclaimed as the bugler in a formal red jacket raised his silver horn to call the thoroughbreds for the first race.
Similarly, she employs the silver implements of formal meals -- the tarnished sauce boats, sugar tongs, grape scissors, salvers, crumb scoops and knife rests found in her grandmother's sideboard when the house was cleared out -- to dramatize "the trauma of the middle class occasioned by the death of domestic service" in the 20th century.
