"This will be merely a formal audience," said the usher who escorted him through the labyrinth of the monastery.

I am glad to hear from you, although you usually request the more formal personal audience.

They were used to people leaving formal audiences with the Great Man with big things on their mind.

At that time I expect we will be given a formal audience.

This was not the sort of question he had expected from a king in what he took for a formal audience.

At the fourth week she asked for formal audience with the Abbess, her plans made.

He also had a formal audience with the Dalai Lama.

I have got that damned formal audience before dinner, don't I?

The next day, Mina held a formal audience.

At one I have formal audiences, and you have to be there.