Sentence examples for formality into from inspiring English sources

This feeling of emotional generosity tempers the literary thinking, as do the scenes of pure comedy, like the Oxford high-table dinner in Marías's novel "All Souls," with its Buñuel-like degeneration of absurd formality into violence and contempt.

Elaine May is one of the most inventive and original filmmakers of our time, and, like all true artists, she's able to turn even a banal formality into a miniature gem of tightly-packed and multifaceted brilliance.

The leading British viol consort arrives with the outstanding countertenor Michael Chance for a program of mostly 16th- and 17th-century English music, from William Byrd through Orlando Gibbons, Matthew Locke and John Jenkins to Henry Purcell: music that veers from sober formality into wildness.

With just two days left before the deadline to file, the soft-spoken cleric turned an administrative formality into a powerful political event.

Eventually, only eight players posted a score worse than Woods' third-round 75, dropping him from T-1 to T-14, and turning what some suggested was a mere formality into a Sunday stress-fest... for everyone involved.

I pushed the turnstile and stepped through the narrow door — no line, no other formalities — into the state of Sonora, Mexico, where I was instantly, unmistakably in a foreign land.

This literature review has, amongst other things, demonstrated that studies into formality in sign languages generally focus on the language employed, paying relatively little attention to context.

An apparent formality turned into the harshest of lessons for Matt Busby's emerging side: Sporting, the eventual winners, routed them 5-0.

Going through airport customs in Halifax, usually a wave-through formality, turned into a lingering conversation as the customs officer told us about the big snowfalls of last winter, and the big melt of the spring, and couldn't we stay a minute longer to talk?

As the parents retreat into formality and certainty, we cannot tell how deliberate the teenagers' sabotage has been.

16th over: Ireland 91-6 (A Cusack 3, T Johnston 3) We're into formality stage now but Hogg will, nevertheless, be peeved at allowing some runs to leak from this over.