Sentence examples for formality precision from inspiring English sources

Listening to him speak, Americans chuckled inappropriately, anticipating "laugh lines where there were none"; Mandela's "formality, precision, and seriousness," Finnegan wrote, revealed "just how much we as a nation have come to regard politics as a form — a vulgar, usually boring form — of entertainment".

In particular, it reflects a longing for formality, precision, restraint — for tuxedos, against an age of blue jeans; for crispness, responding to an era of slouch; for self-control in lieu of untrammelled expression; for consideration and dignity as a reproach to shameless individualism.

Mr. Morris's love of ballet's formality and precision is evident, yet he also emphatically includes nonvirtuoso gestures and pedestrian movement.

When singing pop Ms. Bergman holds back and lightens up but maintains the formality and precision of someone giving a concert recital.

The chapter describes the role that the notations can play in the system engineering argument and discusses the difference between formality and precision.

Notwithstanding the impressive formality and precision of the empirical econometric research in question, such a conclusion is untenable with the phylogeny of evolutionary economic theory that underpins the field of Technology Entrepreneurship.

In some ways, the cemetery and the funerals held there lack precision and formality.

That said, there is something reassuring about a list, a precision and formality that makes us think we've got a handle on things.

When I first read the word "hegemony", it was written by an author who had participated in an educational system predicated on formality, academic rigor and linguistic precision.

Mr. Plummer is particular about language: his voice, a melodious baritone whose baroque formality he can undercut with studied precision (and a curse or two), has served him since he began acting as a teenager in his native Canada.

The stiffness and formality of the poses, the dusty old backdrops, the faded precision of the photographs, even the women's makeup and inexpressiveness lend the images a kind of stilted and touching sadness as well as a wry humour.