informality
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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
Sausalito has since transformed from hippie backwater to high-end suburb, but the club maintains an air of salty informality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
That easy-going, free-flowing approach is all over the record – whose stories of love and loss are conveyed with an easy informality, like your best friend spilling their secrets.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 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
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
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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
The informalities or blunders by which they too often lost their pay and were sometimes set down as deserters attracted her attention, and so far as possible she always procured the correction of those errors.
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.