matter of form
Example Sentences
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Still, “Tomb of Sand” is a matter of form meeting function, an homage to the vibrancy of Hindi that threatens to lose its shine in a globalized world where English peppers its cadence.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
This is partly a matter of form: the show skillfully borrows images and sounds from those films and others.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2015
There is, it turns out, a unifying thread; it’s just not a matter of form.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2012
Their melancholy seems as much a matter of form as of subject matter – a result of narrative compactness.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
Hercules dined alone, but he understood that Admetus must as a matter of form attend the funeral and the fact did not stand in the way of his enjoying himself.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
