Sentence examples for mostly formal from inspiring English sources
The emperor's duties have since consisted of mostly formal and ceremonial functions.
Although the duties of the office are mostly formal, the governor may play an important role in a political crisis.
For Monte dei Paschi, the change was mostly formal because it had always belonged to the city in one way or another.
Nevertheless, in mostly formal portraits of the sculptor and the painter, separately and together, by various photographers including Lucien Bloch, Tina Modotti and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the seemingly mismatched artists radiate considerable star power (Johnson).
The mansion, a brick Georgian built without much foresight in 1950, is small by gubernatorial standards, mostly formal parlors that are heavily visited by tourists who want to see the home once occupied by Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Mr Singh is hardly inspiring but, crucially for Mr Gandhi, he keeps out more compelling BJP candidates who are vying to lead the party and any future government it might run.The party presidency has become a mostly formal role, unless occupied by a figure powerful in his (or her) own right.
Patrons, mostly in formal wear, enjoy fine cuisine in one of the dining tents or bring their own picnic meals.
In any area of creativity, creative products tended to be judged mostly by formal experts on the subject-matter.
The nude is one of the most traditional of artistic genres and these are mostly very formal works, conservative in subject matter, coolly detached in observation.
What resulted was a transformation: a medium used mostly for formal games, frequently serving "absurdity" and "anti-art," became a means to produce works of high moral ambition, now connected to black culture.
To some extent, it was also a self-portrait of his emotional life as he grew in fame and experience and, perhaps, as he deepened into a professional objectification of his sitters that mostly reflected formal experiment, whatever the relation of the sitters to him.
