Sentence examples for terribly formal from inspiring English sources
Ads aren't usually terribly formal, of course, but this one is for quite a ritzy service, which is why it struck me.
I'm slightly anti-establishment, I have a kind of Tourette's impulse to say something rude when everyone's being terribly formal or traditional".
Not that the players' professional courtship, if it can be called that, is a terribly complicated or formal one.
'I hated every minute of it, it was terribly regimented and formal.' So he cast around for something else.
As an executive at a global public relations firm, she had lived in seven cities and three countries, and all her homes had been formal, classic and terribly controlled.
Others saw an opening for dialogue when the Crown Prince made another statement, this time on CNN, again extending his condolences and adding a formal apology: "We are terribly sorry and this is a terrible tragedy for our nation….
It's not like one of those big formal shoots that can be terribly imposing.
If, as Field (2008) is inclined to do, one takes a fairly instrumentalist approach towards the formal semantics, then perhaps this question is not terribly pressing.
Self-assured, energetic and, at last, happy, she made her formal debut into society as a stimulating conversationalist, albeit one not terribly interested in small talk, and a graceful dancer.
It's difficult to be terribly precise about the impact these changes would have, at least without some kind of formal economic modeling.
