For all the album's formal trappings, the portrait of Ms. Streisand that "Back to Broadway" offers is surprisingly candid.

Nonetheless, Professor Marsden went on, society has thrown off some formal trappings taken on in the 80's.

His formal trappings were completed by a plumed helm and tasselled sword, and Papewaio, his adjutant, stood in armour as splendid.

Even with its formal musical trappings, "When the Levees Broke" is the opposite of a Ken Burns documentary.

In short, the book has the formal trappings of a master theory in the old European tradition.

Any code of conduct has a practical basis to it, no matter how buried it might be under the formal trappings.

El Salvador has the formal trappings of democracy, but is not far advanced in its practice.

He didn't care about formal trappings and useless niceties.

Retief watched as Qorn's aides helped him out of his formal trappings.

The rich, formal trappings of the wedding quite outshine and overcome the mere participants.