Sentence examples for formal things from inspiring English sources

So the artist is not is much less concerned with formal things than he is with getting the story across.

"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.

"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.

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.

"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.