Sentence examples for usual formality from inspiring English sources

Even Dr. Ditmars, the Zoo's snake man, had to go through the usual formality.

The prose has Sebald's usual formality, along with his strain of almost pedantic exaggeration ("and from that moment they walked more slowly").

For a kind of reception room on the first floor -- a difficult space that seems to serve virtually no purpose -- Thomas Jayne eschewed the usual formality and focused on a tropical garden outside.

The player now has permission to complete the usual formalities, which will then conclude the transfer.

This trope of aggressive, slightly loopy indifference characterises our narrator, so he can skip the usual formalities of description.

After the usual formalities, such as how many wives I'd had, Ahmed shoehorned into conversation that he was an admirer of David Bowie.

He was not required to play injured, Ryan Giggs was eager enough to take his place, but there was something of an obligation to go through the usual formalities – a consultation with a trainer, an inspection of the injury, a little time for the bench to reorganise the team.

Soldiers' and sailors' wills, for example, are frequently effective with fewer than the usual formalities, and oral wills (nuncupative wills) at least of certain types of property may be valid if made under certain circumstances, such as when the testator is dying.

Teams are out and going through the usual formalities, handshakes and all that.

Fryatt's insurers, the Provident Clerk's Association, paid the £300 that Mrs Fryatt was entitled to immediately, dispensing with the usual formalities.

That was certainly the case as the Family Service Agency of Burbank passed on the usual formalities of its annual "Imagine a City" fundraiser and presented a touch football game at Johnny Carson Park followed by a homecoming dance in the gymnasium of Providence High School this past Friday.