informality
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Netanyahu calls him Donald, an informality that most other world leaders don’t embrace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
But there is another aspect of things worth exploring here, beyond the formality of Washington's requests, and the informality of the president both in private and in public.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
In fact, to my eyes, the appearance of informality had been taken to a faintly ludicrous degree.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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
Aside from these ethical informalities the life was socially agreeable, and there is glamour in the military.
From A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock
