formal style
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This portrait will be inspired by the formal style of 18th and 19th Century portraiture and will be produced by Leeds-based photographer and filmmaker Ashley Karrell.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2023
If your instructor requires a formal style for the assignment, the language should be objective and in third- person point of view.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
That meant never sticking to a single, formal style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
Her constitutional role imposes a highly formal style on her in public.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2012
I had to read several of the letters he’d received first to pick up the stilted formal style of the day.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
