formal style
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Was this wardrobe change a symbolic gesture - Burnham signalling that with his move from Greater Manchester mayor to prime minister he would be adopting a more formal style in the job?
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
Called out in alphabetical order, senators stood from their chairs to announce their vote, a formal style reserved for the most important business.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2018
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
Using a formal style when an informal style is called for results in prose that seems stuffy, pompous, affected, haughty.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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