Sentence examples for formal simplicity from inspiring English sources
Steel and concrete skeletons restore to modern architecture the formal simplicity of the oldest structures known.
The film is a Greek tragedy of sorts, and despite its formal simplicity, it is technically ambitious and very beautiful.
It is also a symbol of Japan itself and an embodiment of qualities often used to define Japanese-ness in art: formal simplicity and emotional serenity.
Formal simplicity, clarity of colour, immediacy in the handling and a swift graphic line would stamp his work as unmistakably recognisable for the rest of his career.
Much modern construction in steel and concrete is based on the post-and-lintel system, restoring the formal simplicity of the oldest structures to modern architecture.
Later that day, I asked Ive about an Apple design that shares the new campus's formal simplicity: the circular "hockey puck" mouse that was included with the first iMacs.
A chaotic installation of audio-visual hardware and cloth partitions that filled Japan Society's lobby made a mockery of formal order and simplicity.
Driving, eating, checking into hotels, lying alone (and sometimes not alone) at night — the recurring scenes, like the refrain of a song, give the movie formal clarity and simplicity, while, within the scenes, the editors (Mags Arnold, Paul Monaghan, and Marc Richardson) smooth what must have been ragged exchanges into unbroken streams of conversation.
(2) Formal and structural simplicity?
In view of recent formal work both on simplicity and on coherence for instance, Forster and Sober 1994, and Li and Vitanyi 1997, on simplicity and Bovens and Hartmann 2003, on coherence the first part of this claim has become hard to maintain.
By contrast, while sharing a model of geometric axiomatic structure of knowledge, Newton's project of natural philosophy was meant to be autonomous from a system of philosophy and, in the new context, still endorsed for its model of organization and its empirical reasoning values of formal synthesis and ontological simplicity (see the entry on Newton and Janiak 2008).
