Sentence examples for More formalistic from inspiring English sources

It became a little more formalistic".

Although Ms. McWhinnie's watercolor still lifes are billed as "glimpses of memories," their effect is more formalistic than nostalgic.

In developing countries ideas about administrative reform often move in the direction of the more formalistic Weberian ideal particularly the creation of universalistic standards, regular procedures, and accountability.

Taking a more formalistic approach, Ursula Clark's "Tic-Tac-Toe" uses woven strips of newsprint to create a grid embellished with buttons, coins and other punctuations.

In doing so, Chile's Supreme Court, one of the more formalistic and conservative in Latin America, has up-ended the region's long tradition of granting political asylum to former rulers.

As he hits his stride and the genitalia count starts to mount--as his angle of vision goes down and the distance between painter and model closes to a nose length--the language of MOMA's exhibition catalogue turns in desperation to the decorous conventions of artspeak, becoming ever more formalistic in the face of increasingly outrageous subject matter.

Due process is the guarantee, made in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, that a person can't be deprived "of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"; "substantive" means that this guarantee is more than formalistic (or "procedural").

Non-statutory rules or policies are "often drafted in a more flexible and less formalistic and precise way than statutory rules, thus leaving more leeway in their application".

As Judge Christopher Droney observed in his concurrence, under this approach, judicial inquiry into whether the government is pursuing a "legitimate" end (as is required under the rational basis test) is no more than a "disingenuous," formalistic ritual.

For this reason, they explained, marriage, together with learning how to work and getting a foothold in the job market from an early age, guarantees the future more securely than a formalistic linear view of the life-course.

Still, the transformation that the jacket represents — turning the Chinese Communist Party from a corrupt and formalistic bureaucracy into a more popular and flexible institution — has only just begun.