informality

Texts should be messy anyway, she adds, because the intimacy comes from informality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

He may be regretting the informality, even if he regularly drums home a message that "nothing good happens after midnight".

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 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

Aureliano Segundo helped her back to bed and with the same informality with which he always treated her, he asked her the meaning of her farewell.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Ruskin was one of the executors under the will; but, on finding that, though Turner's intention was plain, there were technical informalities which would make the administration anything but easy, he declined to act.

From The Life of John Ruskin by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)