Sentence examples for mixture of formality from inspiring English sources

I like the mixture of formality and relaxation: the room, with its lace tablecloth, lilies and gold-framed pictures, is quite prim and proper, but behind the off-duty king's chair a dozing corgi softens the scene, conveying the message that this is a real family with pets.

"Drink to Me Only," though marvelous, is such a mixture of formality and informality, so open about displaying the nuts and bolts of its movements and its construction, that it makes you ask, "Where's the theater in this?" In an opposite way, "Rodeo," with no pointwork and few conventional academic steps, invites you to wonder, "Where's the ballet in this?" Yet neither disappoints.

And the resulting hybrid, a slightly cheesy mixture of rock n roll and European formality, created a dramatic tension that energized movie music around the world.

Only in places did she shake loose of formality.

But soon all sense of formality was breaking down.

But under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, all pretence of formality has gone.

Focused, with a hint of formality.

The lack of formality takes people out of the picture.

There has to be a degree of formality".

Leading this revival of formality (above) was a glowing Caroline Kennedy.

Again, match the customer's tone and level of formality.