Sentence examples for pure formality from inspiring English sources

The reserve banks are technically owned by their member commercial banks, but this is a pure formality.

The actual process of tuition is hard to generalize about, so his book is, instead, full of incomprehensible diagrams, theoretical analysis and sentences like "Technomodernism identifies with the 'emptiness' of pure formality — that is, with the systematicity of the system itself, drawing the machine to itself in a form of ontological prosthesis".

Jeff Millar of Houston Chronicle wrote that Giuseppe Tornatore's 1994 psychological thriller A Pure Formality uses the plot device of Jacob's Ladder mixed with several other sources.

Much of the show's comedy comes from the juxtaposition of Peter's unblinking formality with the pure dumbness of the crime.

Knightley and McAvoy press hands over the teacups with the same agonized formality as Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, and Knightley's pure period accent (her pronunciation of "very" is halfway to "veddy") suddenly sounds as brittle as bone china — her home, she says, is "a tiny flet".

This feeling of emotional generosity tempers the literary thinking, as do the scenes of pure comedy, like the Oxford high-table dinner in Marías's novel "All Souls," with its Buñuel-like degeneration of absurd formality into violence and contempt.

A formality.

No formality.

That is no formality.

She loved formality, intrigue.

Business trumps formality.