It opens in spring, the year, we are told with stern formality, "in which so grave a threat seemed to hang over the peace of Europe".
And that's when you have to go through the condescending formality in which he asks if you know how fast you were going even though he already knows you know, you suck up, he scolds you, you offer him a bribe, and then you "thank" him for giving you a speeding ticket.
In conclusion, the informal housing market in China is "regulated" by a "semi-formal" system in which both informality and formality work and intertwine.
However, custom formalities in Italy, which resulted in a delay in receiving this drug, are inappropriate for emergency drug treatment.
"Diamonds" is Balanchine's homage to 19th-century Petipa — especially "Swan Lake" — in which formality and refinement work in tandem to recreate the splendor of another time.
In the deliberate, simple formality of its staging, in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against Robert Brill's bare-bones set, "Laramie" often brings to mind "Our Town," the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.
Unless you are negotiating with representatives of smaller companies in which formality is not considered as important, it is not recommended to gesticulate a lot or be too familiar.
The covers album is a formality in pop, the gesture in which the artist shares something of himself, the music that he loves.
James Macdonald's brilliantly controlled production – in which the formality of the inter-scene music starts to break down as if a needle is sticking on vinyl – doesn't stint on the savagery, but finds all the comedy in a situation that has its farcical elements even as the tragedy unfolds.
The two versions differ in formality, which is why it would be ludicrous to come home and greet one's spouse with "Hi, Honey, it's I!" or to ease the pain of a romantic breakup by saying: "It's not you; it's I".
Preceding the cello piece in publication order was the Piano Sonata (Op. 101), a neglected wonder of unorthodox beauty in which the formalities of sonata form and Classical etiquette have irrevocably broken down.
