formal mode
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But for some, this is not merely the embrace of a more formal mode of worship.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
Censure is not a formal mode of discipline for a president, but a move Congress votes on in expressing severe disapproval of something.
From Fox News ● Jun. 2, 2020
“She’s in formal mode throughout. For me, the most amazing thing is just to witness her from that little girl at age 11 all the way to the present queen,” who is now 88.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2015
Ladies of course made morning calls, and gentlemen too, occasionally; but society at Desmond Court was for some years pretty much confined to this cold formal mode of visiting.
From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony
But the Poet does not much affect this formal mode of the thing: he has comparatively few instances of it; while his pages abound in similes of the informal mode, like those quoted before.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
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