Sentence examples for great formality from inspiring English sources

Our pictures were escorted from London to Southampton with great formality by the various county police.

At a time of great formality in literature, he wrote irreverently, for everybody, from the perspective of orphans and outcasts.

A burly, stone-faced nineteen-year-old named Joshua Barnes was in the crowd and, with great formality, thanked us for paying his way.

I tell him it was a joy to meet him and he lurches to his feet and says with great formality, 'The pleasure's all mine.' What a well-brought-up boy!

Despite the great formality of the affair, things naturally loosen up some once all the initial hurdles are covered.

But, understandably, our fellow new intern felt that greater formality was being requested.

During this time the evolution of writing in capitals (a style called uncial) probably continued toward a greater formality and artificiality.

Dangerous dogs, that bedroom tax, the Philpotts (obvs), but more surprisingly, Simon Kelner's call yesterday to be addressed as 'Mr' or at least with greater formality.

According to Campbell, first, the regress is benign because "[i]t proceeds in a direction of greater and greater formality and less and less substance" (1990 35 366).

In my own work, I take great enjoyment playing off formality- making something predictable feel subversive.

An ill formed formality only fossilizes great pain.