#formal

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#away #concert #concert hall #country #formality

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners. ↗

— John McGahern

#also #beautiful #fact #form #formal

The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#art #balance #contrast #formal #good

We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now. ↗

— Radha Mitchell

#casual #exist #formality #interactions #kind

And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems. ↗

— Brian Moore

#national #now #over

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#anything #application #else #fill #formal

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#good #her #i #i think #impatient

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

#decisions #formally #i #instinctual #never

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#dependent #formal #halls #his #idea

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#demonstration #exclusively #formality #preventing #questioning