Quotes About Formal

They were referred to as morning calls, that endless round of formal visits that took place daily amongst the members of Society in residence in London. But the truth was that no gentleman or lady with any pretensions to breeding would dream of appearing on the doorstep of any but his or her most intimate of friends before three o'clock.

Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one of the few persons who could pull that kind of thing off and leave the hostess saying how charming he was. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

Well, the news has got around. The Duchess of Keepsake has invited us to a ball, Sir Henry and Lady Withering have invited us to a ball, and Lord and Lady Hangfinger have invited us to... yes, a ball. Well, that's a lot of... Don't you dare, Sam.

detective, in a blazer and oxford

Some teachers will appreciate being invited to a school leader's office to receive feedback, perhaps because they value time out of their classroom and they feel that doing so formalises the process, which they like; others will feel intimidated by this and would much prefer to receive feedback in the more familiar environment of their own classroom.

the Soviet leader had hoped that the U.S. president would issue a formal request for the USSR's participation in the East Asian war, providing a pretense for the Russians to abrogate their neutrality pact with Japan.

I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with the expectation of seducing me into matrimony, and a couple of their mothers came to blows. It was hilari—I mean, dreadful. Simply dreadful.

The Kennedys tried to avoid using the big U-shaped table, but when they couldn't, they had several tricks - including keeping the flowers simple - to keep it from appearing overly stiff and formal.

Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.

Dates are always hard. You don't want to be too dressed up or too casual.

He handed me the keys. My hand closed over them. It felt like a formal investiture.

We are acting by the letter; and 'the letter killeth.

Always the perfect French, with never a contraction or word of slang.

Regards," "Best wishes," "All the best" are more personal than the others and less formal, but not appropriate if you don't know your reader. And there isn't anything wrong with simply

After the night ended, she spun to me and yanked off her diadem. "There. I had my debut. I still hate parties.

Hey, Calloway." Reluctantly I turned back. "What?" "Save me a dance, will you?" I smiled sweetly. "Only if you wear one of those cute little plaid cummerbunds.

In making the basis of the calculus more rigorously formal, Weierstrass also attacked the appeal to intuition of continuous motion which is implied in Cauchy's expression -- that a variable approaches a limit.

Thus the required rigor was found in the application of the concept of number, made formal by divorcing it from the idea of geometrical quantity

Most of his predecessors had considered the differential calculus as bound up with geometry, but Euler made the subject a formal theory of functions which had no need to revert to diagrams or geometrical conceptions.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

I was attending a formal dinner." He grimaced. "They make us wear armor to these things so we don't stab ourselves out of sheer boredom.

I didn't get a formal introduction to horror until right about the age of 12, when my uncle showed me 'Twilight Zone: The Movie.' When you're 12 years old, and you see that - oh, God. I devoured as many horror movies and novels as possible.

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.