The formal symmetry of the two white blocks framing his building at either end, for example, gives the structure a self-important solemnity.

Under the stress of their thoughts and feelings the poets of Israel sought to achieve merely the material, not the formal symmetry of corresponding lines.

I became entranced by the play's formal symmetry and the relish with which the actors chanted Wilde's florid, repetitious lines.

And the reader begins to resent the formal symmetries: Smart, like the salmon, is returning to die in the place of spawning.

Clad in a dark, rich wood, the balconies give the room a rigid formal symmetry.

Can the Spirit of Perversity attribute the unwieldiness of the structure to its formal symmetry and perfection?

If you hanker for a sliver of formal symmetry, there's nothing like a matched set of espaliers.

Few trees produce an interruption to the formal symmetry of grave rows and building structures.

A series of paths cut diagonally through the main garden, breaking down its formal symmetry.

We must create a formal symmetry.