Sentence examples for formal concerns from inspiring English sources

And I couldn't see how Roth, in the fluency of his own voice and personality, attempted so many conceptually or formally exhilarating flights -- I needed writing that wore its formal concerns more on its sleeve.

I'm schooled in the classic European art films and their formal concerns.

Her verse has been frequently compared to that of the English Metaphysical poets in its restrained, intellectual style, its compressed diction and imagery, and its formal concerns.

With such transparents as The Couple (1928 29), Lipchitz attempted to express emotion instead of merely addressing formal concerns, as he had in his earlier works.

This is a reminder of something else he was: a modernist history painter, for whom formal concerns and narrative content had equal weight.

Again, Nevinson never ignored formal concerns: since Futurism celebrated industry, Nevinson took pains to emphasize the metallic nature of the soldiers' battle helmets.

But creating an image in my work can be a very formal concern.

The current note suggests a formal concern, asking the audience "to be released from the associations evoked by scenery, costumes and music".

But in this case the equivocation, the uncertainty, seems to come from the filmmaker himself, who seems to have been unable to locate what it is in this movie he cares about, beyond any particular, local formal concern.

"I am always looking for something you have not seen before," says Cooke, "an idea, an argument, a formal concern, a voice … a play that takes something familiar in a new or unexpected direction".

Here are two examples of interpretative writing from two different exhibitions in the UK: All the works in this section have one core formal concern in common: the idea of 'time' (and space).