Sentence examples for too much ceremony from inspiring English sources

A little bit of life, and not too much ceremony, seems right.

In keeping with the family spirit, the small paid staff is helped by a group of volunteers, all willing to pitch in to do whatever needs to be done, without standing too much on ceremony.

They had made too much of a ceremony of the endorsement.

An alcoholic, Gian Gastone drank too much before the ceremony and vomited repeatedly throughout; he had to be carried unconscious back to the Palazzo Pitti, the royal palace, on a litter.

Signs that too much of the awards ceremony's house red sometimes wrecks the critical faculties: Gomez and several others who've walked off with the prize and into steep career decline.

We do not want to stand on ceremony too much: maybe we can only by extension admit to call smart objects and systems capable of reactions and responses which work, that is to say, those reactions and responses which allow objects and systems to continue to exist, to serve their function (be it designed or not), to grow and to reproduce, and so on; but other words are better, such as antifragile.

That said, Seth Rogen made sure it didn't feel too much like an Oscars ceremony from the very beginning.

In the same open spirit with which last year's wedding of Catherine Middleton and Prince William, now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, was celebrated with ceremony but not too much pomp, the big ease has reached the vaults of monarchy.

The least satisfying part of the evening was the ceremony itself: too safe, too much self-congratulation.

When I graduated there were no ceremonies other than drinking too much champagne at the end of finals.

Airman Patterson cautioned against reading too much into the gung-ho speeches at the ceremony.