Sentence examples for formal element from inspiring English sources

And the scenic structure lends a formal element to the work that undermines the dramatic immediacy.

The titles, he adds, are "a formal element of the movie that you can use like a picture frame".

They are sensual, fluid and dynamic, sometimes incorporating collage elements, as in "Untitled" (1960), in which hair has been stuck onto the composition as a formal element.

In these communal celebrations, a choric dance may have been the first formal element and perhaps for centuries was the principal element.

The lesson, of course, is that even when home is reduced to a strictly formal element, disconnected from time and place, it remains symbolically loaded.

It was a formal element, a haiku -- well, almost -- illustrating what Holman thought was wrong with drawing a line between poems and songs, isolating poetry from the stream of popular culture.

These formal elements recur in work after work.

"I wanted to take away the formal elements".

These artists are simultaneously formal elements and themselves.

She added: "The formal elements in my work are intuitive.

Viewed through the glass curtain wall, the empty volumes between floors and ceilings become formal elements.