The phrase "formal perfection" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe something that is flawless in terms of language and grammar, or adheres perfectly to formal writing conventions and standards. Example: The essay received a perfect score due to its formal perfection - not a single mistake in grammar, spelling, or punctuation could be found.
They must simply incarnate formal perfection; this, the Paris Opera can do.
This formal perfection, Schenker argued, gives a musical masterwork "total independence from the world around it".
In his exhibition, Koolhaas is careful to disrupt the formal perfection of Mies van der Rohe's museum.
The cast, headed by Maria Kowroski and Charles Askegard, suggested that formal perfection can also be emotionally satisfying.
Americans have long since produced their own definitions of the strict discipline and formal perfection Nietzsche invoked.
The sculptures' transporting combination of formal perfection, religious gravity and life-affirming alertness can make the setting all but disappear.
In describing these surfaces, Butts's prose lovingly creates its own still-life, placing each object in reference to a composition of "formal perfections". This formal symmetry occurs in a world [End Page 607] where the walls of a habitation are "in their place again" when a "shining room" is "charged-up with pain" (186).
Like others of our age, they had re-discovered also the still-life, that, however it may get itself painted, it is not nature mort, but that each haphazard arrangement can be composed of formal perfections of shape and light plates on a table, a basket of folded linen, a sea-scape off the beach in a glass dish.
The composition exudes gravity, enigma, formal beauty, perfection -- and exceptionalness, as if time itself had stopped to look at the person sitting in that chair.
Haneke believed in the formal technical perfection of the original and sees no reason to change it, other than to apply a new US context to sock it over to the Americans.
Perhaps the formal account of perfection at IId6 and later at IIIp11 give Spinoza a means of reformulating the idea of perfection as a model of human nature in a way which reconciles the two senses of the term: the ideal we set before ourselves will be a person who possesses the greatest possible power of action.
