Sentence examples for rigid formalities from inspiring English sources

Many reject the rigid formalities of the past, spurning suit-and-tie careers in favour of life as a freeter.

Parker eliminated the rigid formalities of traditional school routine, arranged interrelated subjects around a central core, and emphasized socialized activities and creative self-expression.

Johnson might have esteemed him for his decent, religious demeanour, and his knowledge of books and literary history; but from the rigid formalities of his manners, it is evident that they never could have lived together with companionable ease and familiarity; nor had Sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's character.

Clarice, the drama's cunning political wife, is dressed with rigid formality.

It should be asymmetrical or off-balance - organic shapes are dominant and rigid formality is a no-no.

Chuck Richards's technique is the kind of fanatic, careful, obsessive art-making that often leads to rigid formality and dead pictures.

The byplay, with its unspoken and rakish hatefulness, between the cousins, is such elegant skulduggery that Cho-Won and Lady Chung derive as much happiness from flouting the rigid formality of the day as they do from sexual plunder.

The west pediment, with a scene of struggling men and centaurs, has something of the rigid formality of the Archaic spirit, but here—and in the metopes that show the labours of Heracles the artist has acutely observed differences of age in the human bodies and differences of expression pain, fear, despair, disgust in the faces.