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Others were more formal and detail-driven, as she experimented with portraits and still lifes.

Dream subject: "I would like to time-travel a few decades back and take the kind of snapshots that weren't taken then, because people were more formal".

In general, the clothes in this collection, which will reach stores in August, were more formal and elegant than Slimane's previous collections: less street, more studio.

Back then, things were more formal: "When I first started, the conductor wore tails," said Lee Reilly, an 83-year-old retired dentist from Ho-Ho-Kus who attended the library show.

Mr. Levine's early poems were more formal than the ones he writes now, doubtless because as a young man he studied with eminent formalists like Robert Lowell, John Berryman and Yvor Winters, but also, he suggested, to compensate for the formlessness of his own life back then.

These group interviews were more formal than the focus group discussion with students.

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"You" was more formal, "thou" more familiar.

It was more formal in those days".

Senior was more formal in his religious beliefs.

(Dress is more formal than at a typical salsa event).

A lot of my friends are rowdy," she said, but Ms. Stephens was more formal.

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