informality
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There’s an informality built into the production, but it’s somewhat deceptive because the mercurial staging is extremely precise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Now he must decide whether younger, less experienced players require informality or more rigid structures as they learn to play the longer format of the game.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Trainor said the stigma against facial hair as unkempt and dirty is fading, calling it part of a broader trend of “greater informality in dress and grooming and speech.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
"Resilient growth and stable unemployment figures should not distract us from the deeper reality: hundreds of millions of workers remain trapped in poverty, informality, and exclusion," ILO chief Gilbert Houngbo said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Everyone, meanwhile, appears to be blending into a classless crowd, shedding the showiest kinds of high-status clothes in favor of a jeans-and-sweatsuit informality.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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These inequities or biases in the substantive laws have over time become routine through the legal formalities and discretionary informalities of the procedural law.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Field, now 97, said he and Locklin “shared certain informalities, that poetry shouldn’t be beyond human understanding and feelings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
In the weeks after this meal, Momofuku Nishi was reviewed by critics who were pleased with its food and its no-tipping policy but unhappy with its brutal acoustics and other informalities.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016
In informal speech a lot of us — even English teachers — lapse into all sorts of informalities.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2012
Sutherland took action against the postmaster's sureties, but owing to informalities his suit was thrown out.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir