When she serves in the dining room, she said, she uses the good china, the silver, the linen, the crystal -- and all that formality creates work, so much that she hires help when she's serving 10 or more.
Stoke was sometimes doctrinaire, and his formality when working with the board members was found to be annoying by some.
"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.
He tried new surfaces, he tried new materials, he tried new shapes, but there was always the same kind of sleek, crisp formality to his work.
Or it might not; you might instead be contemplating the gorgeous background colour, or the curious parallel between the emphatically figurative image and the abstract formality of the work.
Inviting someone just for the sake of formality doesn't work.
In naming his sculptures after geographic areas -- Oceania, Europe, Asia -- Mr. Marín projects a universal formality to the works, while the mixture of materials, and the elegant surfaces in each piece, give them a sort of ancient but modern presence.
In spite of this statement, however, any work regarding formality in BSL remained infrequent until around the turn of the millennium.
The work permit formalities have been completed, although the Russian has now returned to Moscow to sort out his visa application.
He will not be available for Saturday's trip to Tottenham because formalities pertaining to his work visa still need to be completed.
