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

Mr. Wilbur published his first book, “The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems,” in 1947, rendering his war experiences in a formal style that some critics derided as overly ornate and borderline baroque.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2017

Mozart's opera may be ignored because it was an opera seria, the already archaic formal style of tragic opera.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2015

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