Sentence examples for its formalities from inspiring English sources

And of course, some baby boomers who were raised as observant Jews now self-identify as secular Jews, freely using that faith's core of moral culture while hardly attending to its formalities.

The seated dinner, with its minuet of invitation and acceptance, its formalities and protocols, its culinary and dietary challenges, its inherent requirements of guest and host, alike is under threat, many say.

A Jamesian mood arises from the five pieces in this book, a sketch of a professional complicity from which, even in its formalities and conventions, the grand mysteries of a life in art — and a life seemingly consumed by art — emerge.

He thought that the very notion of the concert, with its rituals and its formalities and its accidents, was a vestige of an age when music was more of a social marker than an intellectual pursuit and that recordings, which let listeners experience music in the abstract, apart from the distractions of theatrics, got to the heart of the phenomenon in a new and definitive way.

Like every social occasion, this one has its formalities.

"While I loved it, I was never comfortable with its formality, its ostentation," he said.

This really is an older work, from 1990, but its formality and choreographic rigor made it fresh.

Probably the suit is a Sunday suit, not one he wears in his working life: it is a notch more formal than he is, and he counters its formality with his slouch.

Its formality, paradoxically, heightened its potential for feeling.

The book review, for example, with its formality and abstractions, its ego and aggression tamped down.

But its formality seemed to go with the business suits I fancied.