I am the formal leader of the project but the everyday management is in the hands of my assistant.
a formal announcement
formal procedures
1 Formal language, clothes, and behaviour are suitable for serious or official occasions: --
2 Formal education or training is received in a school or college: --
3 A formal garden is carefully designed and kept according to a plan, and it is not allowed to grow naturally. --
4 a dance at which women wear fashionable, expensive dresses and men wear tuxedos or similar clothes --
5 using an agreed and often official or traditional way of doing things: --
Such passing back and forth between the formal and actual is precisely what formalism cannot allow.
While it certainly recognizes formal complexity in the past, it tends to treat its presence there as anomalous or illicit.
Anthropomorphized abstractions who enjoy the power of human speech entail the formal engagement of prosopopeia.
Tropes and figures, as discreet formal entities, can be likened to texts.
The tropes of contraction are all formal or poetic mechanisms.
Clearly a psychoanalytical program of inquiry is distinct from the formal interest of this study, but it does provide some valuable insights.
The so-named figurational enactments of these categories, however, provide an approximate minimum from which to begin the thinking needed for a formal taxonomy.
All epistemic practices involve power, knowledge, and meaning - they all depend on technique, formal distinctions, and practical contexts that situate theory and consequence.
