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
She still rang the house telephone to the morning-room every day and submitted the menu to me as a matter of form, but that was the limit of our intercourse.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
