The Viennese treat death with the same formality as they do food, surrounding the brute experience with well-mannered rituals that squeeze from it every drop of what, after long reflection, one is finally forced to term pleasure.
One of the things I like about France – a legacy of the French Revolution – is the way in which people of all stations address each other with the same formality and respect as "Monsieur", "Madame", or "Mademoiselle".
And watching Kabuki, it hit me: The same thing is happening with voguing, the same formality.
Mostly mold-made, they were turned out in great quantities, with the same stiff formality seen in Chimú pottery.
Knightley and McAvoy press hands over the teacups with the same agonized formality as Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, and Knightley's pure period accent (her pronunciation of "very" is halfway to "veddy") suddenly sounds as brittle as bone china — her home, she says, is "a tiny flet".
The funeral will be conducted with the same level of pomp and formality as those of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997 and the Queen Mother in 2002, British authorities have said.
"You cannot present the same degree of formality".
"Dobry wieczór" has the same level of formality as "dzień dobry".. To say "goodnight," say "dobranoc.
This range, coupled with low standard deviations, suggests that the population of Deaf BSL users may employ the same level of linguistic formality if they found themselves in the scenarios described.
Mr. Arcangel dispenses with the visual formalities, leaving everything to the imagination.
