Each procession would have been strictly formal, of course, with participants ranked in order of nobility or service.

With teapots, form is function, whether functionally orthodox, strictly formal or a happy combination.

"I saw little of the city, Captain," he replied, his voice strictly formal.

This made the reports even more complete than if he had stuck to the strictly formal reporting style.

It would be obtuse to analyze the design in strictly formal or functional terms.

In the office that day, it had been difficult to keep their relationship strictly formal.

Washington decided to receive the young emissary, and in a manner which, if not cold, was strictly formal.

Instead, the unity of reason has to be strictly formal, or "procedural."

Attire was strictly formal, and the Academy encouraged its girls to go all out.

She continued on, her voice a little softer, "Or are we keeping this strictly formal?"