informalities

We of the carpal-tunneled digits and RSI wrists have need to stand up for our style, for today it's "informalities" they ban, but tomorrow, what will be next?

Oh, and... Ann Althouse 2006

Wallace was keenly aware of his narrative flailings, and exploited those insecurities to draw the reader in; he began sentences with informalities like "And so but then," slathered his text in footnotes, fetishized abbreviation.

David Foster Wallace: Reflecting on the late author | EW.com 2008

These gracious and efficient informalities for simple home meals are so common now that they have achieved the status of conventions.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

These gracious and efficient informalities for simple home meals are so common now that they have achieved the status of conventions.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

These gracious and efficient informalities for simple home meals are so common now that they have achieved the status of conventions.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

These gracious and efficient informalities for simple home meals are so common now that they have achieved the status of conventions.

HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

Such talk was of the nature of an art, and the personalities and informalities of the young were silenced.

The Voyage Out 2004

But on that second day, those sorts of affectionate informalities seemed a long way off.

King of the Cowboys Ty Murray 2003

"Then if it's all right with you," he said as he set his drink aside, "we'll skip the rest of dinner along with any further informalities and get down to business."

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

Melissa was flustered in her ladylike terror of being come upon uncovered in those disarraying exertions of vigorous sexual informalities and, blushing, wished him, for a change, to finish fast; but she laughed when he did and disclosed the ruse as she was checking his baggage for his medicines and preparing to ride with him to the airport before his flight to Kenosha at the start of his journey.

Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994