Those events, however, are much more formal and thorough in nature than last week's.

"A plain white shirt is more formal in a way."

We're a lot less formal in Thalesia than you are down here.

Things had to be more formal in the nursery school because of the larger numbers involved.

"We try not to be that formal in private, at least among ourselves."

It would have sounded less formal in English but the meaning was there.

Many students group together to go to the formal in a limousine.

They had several demands that became formal at the time of the original tender offer in early June, he said.

There was something unusually formal in the way they seated themselves.

Enlargement has been merely formal and political in nature, however.