Word: formalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claudius, more formal than the protagonist, will be attired in tails, Polonius will appear in a casual hunting garb, and Osric in a dashing sartorial display fitting his nature. The actresses will wear evening gowns...
...Negro was John C. Jones, oil refinery worker who had been released from jail the day before, after a white woman who complained he tried to enter her home did not file formal charges...
Jock McLean, playful son of famed, diamond-shingled Evalyn, enlivened formal affairs in starchy Newport with his dinner jacket, a solid scarlet even to the buttons...
Peacocks & Collectors. Last week the citizens of Antwerp gossiped in Rubens' private apartments, gawked at a gold necklace which Rubens' sexy-looking second wife, Helena Fourment, once wore, mused on some of the Master's slickest portraits and best and butteriest painted goddesses, scanned the formal gardens where ruffed collectors and peacocks once displayed their slow, glistening struts, and dawdled in the 35 ft. by 46 ft. studio where Rubens' assistants had labored to produce some 3,000 paintings signed by Peter Paul Rubens...
...theoretical (e.g., your inferences about its writer). "The nature of things, including both the observer and the observed, is composed of two factors or components, the one given immediately and purely empirically with certainty; the other having existence known with equal certainty, but known as to its specific formal . . . content only hypothetically...