Sentence examples for in the formality from inspiring English sources
After ad 5 the Roman people's participation in public life consisted in the formality of holding occasional assemblies to ratify decisions made elsewhere.
But there is also something weighty and reassuring in the formality, and in the command that the poet holds over a silent and rapt audience.
In one sweep, this writer puts her homeland in the heart of Europe, like the mobile phone with its messages from Sydney that beeps incessantly in the formality of Maman's dining room.
Trading in the formality cultivated under its former owner, Chris Blackwell (of Island Records fame), for a friendlier vibe, the new general manager, Skip Scully, welcomes nonguests to take a dip in the private cove.
In the formality of Carnegie Hall, the songs came across not as jovial workers' entertainment, but as something more somber: music that had survived sorrows to find benedictions in the aftermath.
There was also some improvement in the formality of learners' language, but there was no evidence of improvement in linguistic accuracy or complexity.
He had been relishing the task, finding satisfaction in the formalities of dress parade and speech making — his executive role underscored by an impressive show of gold braid and sword — and born again in his Christian faith by the experience of Emancipation.
The scene in which the unemployed townsmen mentally undress Honey Lou affected Art Spiegelman, who saw the possibilities of the comics medium in the formalities of the scene's portrayal of motion.
The eternal and the absolute are elements artists have sought in the formalities of realism and the fragments of abstraction, on the same pathway, 1 step forward, 2 steps back; and scientists likewise, for rarely does excellent science or art occur without reference to past knowledge and principle.
In undermining the formality of theater, Bartlett makes a compelling case for its relevance amongst TV and movies.
