In spite of its rigid formality, her tone conveyed the question: Shall I throw him out?

The raucous pleasures of a hunting party and the anger of Diana and her sisters unfold with a formality hopelessly rigid by our own standards.

She could not adapt her words to the rigid formality of his manner; she could not quite believe it.

He even thought he perceived a rigid formality to their placement, as if each stood positioned on a grid, some fixed distance apart.

Its rigid formality of movement was a dead giveaway.

But he replied with rigid formality, "I relieve you, sir," far too stiffly for a normal human response.

"Surely, in Dublin, it won't be all rigid formality?"

Ivar's head lifted and his voice solidified into its rigid formality of old.

Chuck Richards's technique is the kind of fanatic, careful, obsessive art-making that often leads to rigid formality and dead pictures.

Her life of wild freedom makes him realise that an existence is possible other than the rigid formalities and ritual of the castle.