That idiom is what gives the show its weight and surprising degree of formal grandeur.

His playing has a certain scope and formal grandeur - his interpretations have beginnings, middles and endings, and one rarely forgets where one is.

The ascension of Apollo and his three muses up stairs to the platform, where they stand bathed in clear yellow light, lend a visionary, formal grandeur to the ballet's close.

Her mad scene has a formal grandeur yet is pitiably believable.

Though the room was not especially large, its high ceiling gave it a sense of formal grandeur.

But faced with the formal grandeur of music composed for classical pas de deux, he struggles.

The building has a formal grandeur which distinguishes it from the other remaining buildings on the site.

By the third act the preceding lyrical and contemporary rhythms are left behind as Balanchine and Tchaikovsky work hand in hand, moving toward a dazzling formal grandeur.

In the one case, as in the other, we find ourselves treading a middle ground, where formal grandeur of a specific kind alights on pots and men and finds in them much in common.

Here was a true prince, easy and eager, but filled with formal grandeur.