The formal balance, the managed volume, that understated decorative band, holds such promise.
His style shows fine formal balance and subtle handling of texts.
The tonal richness, formal balance and expressive beauty of a mixed-media work like "Blue Ridge Parkway II" (2009) repays prolonged viewing.
His music was enormously popular during his lifetime; its chief characteristics were melodic beauty and formal balance.
Clients and colleagues would often ask me to validate the argument that "brand values ought to go on the formal balance sheet".
And what Williams mainly sees, despite the formal balance of Tom and anti-Tom in her analysis, is an intricate history of white empathy for blacks, embodied in its generative source, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
He admired Max Beerbohm, and, though the Englishman's line is as woolly and limp as the American's is wiry and crisp, an affinity can be felt in the carefree anatomy and formal balance of their tableaux.
Although he was never a Zen practitioner, he admired the discipline's encouragement of spareness and simplicity, its stress on meticulous craftsmanship and its insistence on asymmetry, or lack of formal balance, to turn the mind away from excess rationalism.
But a measure of poetic temperament and an intense control are needed to bring formal balance to an abstract painting, at least a good abstract painting, and such qualities are not hard to see in the paintings here.
Evans allowed his subjects to compose themselves for their portraits, the way rich people would, and his photos of the interiors of their shacks, even of their worn-out boots, have the formal balance and beauty of Dutch paintings.
