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Example sentences for: formality

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It wasn’t until the 1970s that these vestiges of formality gave way to blue jeans and T-shirts—the casual wear uniform.
Hambali claims he was asked to serve on the company's board of directors as a formality and insists that he did not recognize the "Arabs"who were to run the company or play any role in its operations.
The lively secular and pagan mosaics from Pompeii’s patrician villas make a striking contrast with the rigid formality of church mosaics that we see elsewhere in Italy.
Leigh evidently loves the bloodless formality of the scenes between Gilbert and Sullivan, men of opposite tastes and temperaments who only overlap in their work.
What is behind this pseudo familiarity/equality, Prudie thinks, is California casualness and a touchy-feely cultural shift that have replaced formality and civility.