Sentence examples for seems formal from inspiring English sources

The language seems formal and British, saying "no reply" instead of "no answer".

If Luke tells of a young mother, of angels and shepherds and a manger; and if Matthew lets us in on a visit from wise men; and if Mark is silent about the whole thing; the writer we know as John seems formal and dull.

For that reasons his oil paintings might disappoint; they can seem formal and constrained.

The words do not seem formal and quaint coming from him.

But in later decades the Olympian vision he put forth for Chicago came to seem formal and impersonal.

Both wear garlands in their hair, suggesting that this is the consummation of some ritual; their garments seem formal, priestly.

But Washington seemed "formal, statue-like, a figure for exhibition," wrote Representative Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, the future president, who visited Mount Vernon in 1866.

In gowns that seem formal, otherworldly and occasionally ill-fitting, long-haired women of various shapes and sizes (though mostly spectre-thin) act out moments of vanity and vulnerability.