The front is formal, with a courtyard as its entrance.

I cannot be so formal with one who is barely out of leading strings.

It's embarrassing when you are so formal with my best friend!

In public, of course, she had to be formal with David.

Graduation exercises became more formal with the change of status to senior college.

I cannot continue to be so formal with you, Moichi.

We're going to be more formal with one another.

She had always been very formal even with her daughter.

Surely now that you're nearly through your studies you aren't going to become formal with me!

It is our custom to be formal sometimes, with great seriousness.