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In this fertile period he has embraced aspects of classicism, formalism, surrealism and most obviously, postmodernism.
Now I love formalism, if it reaches sensible results, and if it rests on formal distinctions that make sense.
Here, surely, is a prime example of how formalism makes economists impervious to the evidence.
Powell's formalism is not only distended and sonic, but also the product of subtly tailored typography and syntax.
Judd's thesis augured the inevitable evolution of Modern art into pure formalism and object-ness.
His music combined dazzling bursts of musical light with Gallic elegance and the rigorous formalism of a classicist.
The transactional interpretation would then have to be considered in the context of such a revised formalism to decide if a conflict exists.
Coercive, manipulative attempts to recur to the symbolic end in dead formalism, like bad adolescent prose and most modern poetry.
Shanghai is making government administration more transparent to its citizens, while firmly doing away with formalism and bureaucratism.
Financial services in Bulgaria are still branded by formalism, bureaucracy and lack of interest, analysts said.
Will high culture drive into the cul-de-sac of formalism, preferring museality to the contaminations of experience?
This essay praised Propp's work, but pointed out that the problem with formalism was its policy of ignoring thematic content.
The brothers are often accused of empty formalism, offering up homages to film genres but lacking soul.
In this way, neoclassicism's insistent formalism did little to close the gap between style and meaning.
Brouwer emphasizes, as he had done in his dissertation, that formalism presupposes contextual mathematics at the metalevel.
Term formalism can perhaps be extended to the integers and rational numbers, but what are the real numbers supposed to be?
Artists guilty or suspected of formalism were persecuted and encouraged to make public recantations for their offences.
The materiality of the paint and the sticky pull and release of the printing process showed a rough and ready formalism at work.
An emphasis on social context has long been looked to as an alternative to the elitism and limited scope of Greenbergian formalism.
In contrast to what he sees as the dry formalism of his forbears, Morrison offers a self-consciously passionate response to the play.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Little shades of formalism had crept here and there into her manner, even toward me.
He was puritanic in moral principle, loyal to his friends, and a despiser of cant and formalism.
His sense of formalism had been sloughed off, his agreed-upon reactions bypassed.
The most remarkable result of modern methods in mathematics is the importance of symbolic logic and of rigid formalism.
The outstanding feature of Kiyomitsu's work is its formalism.
It is always, I believe, a sign of decadence when formalism begins.
Dogma, rigidly prescribed by tradition, stiffens into formalism.
The coupling of these models generates a DEVS coupled model capable of running on platforms based on DEVS formalism.
There is in them an irreconcilable mixture of fury and formalism.
He could never get over the idea that formalism was the soul of function.
Moral life is protected from falling into formalism and rigid repetition.
He is not wedded to the invariability of planting, likes the idea of diversity, is happy with landscape jokes, he deals impartially with formalism and informalism.
One suspects that Matthew Collings's bafflement at the power of formalism might be resolved by this survey of the territory currently shared by aesthetes and conceptualists.
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