Sentence examples for formal thing from inspiring English sources

"It's a visual, formal thing — there's no deep philosophy behind it and I'm not commenting on photojournalism.

We all knew Philip, but separately: it wasn't a formal thing; we didn't all meet and discuss our work.

A confession is a formal thing.

I'd cover my Styrofoam pieces in lines as a formal thing.

"There was no formal thing [because] there's no airs," she said.

Feeling more sentimental about the whole formal thing, I called up my photographer buddy Heather and asked her one of life's biggest questions: Will you go to the formal with me?

"It is important for somebody who is depressed that at least some formal things are right," he said.

But although they "seem so casual, and almost just dashed off," Saunders says, "they're doing really interesting structural and formal things".

Well, I have a theme for every painting, but I do use a lot of formal things that people invent for me.

The photos are either posed, formal things, or very informal; mostly young or youngish men in biker leathers and jeans, or shorts out in a biker tent bivouac somewhere we don't know.

"But after I learned how to make a competent painting, it was boring to just think about formal things without putting stuff that I was interested in in there.