informality
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In one of several photographs capturing the remarkable informality between them, Chivayo lounges, almost lying, on a sofa beside Mnangagwa, apparently entirely at ease in the president's company.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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
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
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 W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
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