The close cut of the jackets, and the graphic punch of black and white, gave the day clothes a cool formality.

His cool formality made her want to run and hide in her sumptuous bedchamber.

"Bright the hour of your return, First of the Mother," she said with cool formality.

'One does the work, the others get under my feet,' he replied sardonically, not helping at all and ignoring her cool formality.

The cool formality of his voice made her shudder.

The drama's major events are also told about, not shown or acted out, adding to the work's cool formality.

He writes with cool formality about the Schwartz family of suburban Connecticut.

Beneath all his cool formality, he was kind.

The others in the room could almost sense the cool formality that fell over him like a cloak.

Such ferocity is in direct contrast to Douglas Stein's set design, which has the cool formality of a Japanese garden.