Sentence examples for formal terms for from inspiring English sources

"Appropriateness" and "context," used as formal terms for architectural evaluation, are period pieces.

Once, writers thought twice before using even the formal terms for sexual organs.

Like all of Mr. Soderbergh's movies, this one can be appreciated on purely formal terms, for the clarity of its images and the economy of the storytelling.

Dressed in shimmering long robes designed by Oana Bothe-Ban, the dancers — Mr. Solomons, Hope Clarke and Carmen de Lavallade — participated in a triangular contest of lovers that was expressed in unusually formal terms for Mr. Solomons.

"Like all of Mr. Soderbergh's movies, this one can be appreciated on purely formal terms, for the clarity of its images and the economy of the storytelling," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.

In most cases, corner quotes really indicate formal terms for Gödel numbers of sentences, and are not genuine quotation marks in the usual sense (e.g., denoting the expression 'inside' them).

The formal term for the bricks is Belgian blocks, she added.

In the hierarchy of train lovers, I was at least a train buff and maybe even a "rail fan," which is the formal term for the ultimate obsessive.

"Under the Recovery Act," Ms. Jackson said, using the formal term for the stimulus package, "we're getting harmful pollutants and dangerous chemicals out of these communities and putting jobs and investment back in".

The philosopher Josiah Royce, whom Miles does not mention, labored at a theodicy — the formal term for the justification of God's tolerance of evil — holding thatwhen we suffer God suffers, too.

Now, we are in Round 3 of quantitative easing, the formal term for the Fed injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy by purchasing longer-term assets like Treasury bonds and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paper.