Sentence examples for largely formal from inspiring English sources

His feudal ties remained largely formal, however, and Bohemia was able to retain its autonomy.

But such comparisons as one makes are largely formal, and not really very relevant to Kelley's larger project here.

For these reasons, the similarities between nitrogen and phosphorus chemistry are largely formal ones, tending to conceal the actual, wide differences.

Mostly, it seems, because its extraordinary filmmaking, which transmits the sickening addiction to war as well as its horrors in largely formal terms, doesn't come wedded to a sufficiently obvious antiwar position.

It is but a small part of a much larger and more complex picture in which deviation, volatility and the body are explored along largely formal, abstract lines, with eccentric, often liquid materials reigning supreme.

While the difference will be largely formal, it would be disappointing if the new regime also proved seamless in terms of a reluctance – dating back to the loss of Mr Brooks in 1992 – to come to the Breeders' Cup.

Instead, it deals largely in formal, abstract generalities.

Financially, the war economy has largely replaced formal economic life.

George W. Bush, meanwhile, as distrustful of sophisticated nonsense as any Renaissance Briton, largely eliminated formal dinners and welcomed Vladimir Putin to the Crawford ranch with guacamole, fried catfish and cornbread.

The educational system was itself rigid and outdated; a liberal university admissions policy was combined with a teaching method based largely on formal lectures, and the vast student body was without any say in the running of a system that seemed to be largely irrelevant to its needs.

Social network sites (SNSs) like Facebook.com, are the dominant technology-mediated leisure activity among teenagers in different countries, prompting researchers to explore their suitability as learning tools, largely in formal higher education settings, and with mixed results.