Sentence examples for formalistic concerns from inspiring English sources

Opponents of the program raise formalistic concerns about the Establishment Clause but ignore the core purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment.

From this a second objection arose: Kantianism in general is too formalistic to satisfy human inquisitiveness, which inclines more and more toward concrete concerns.

It became a little more formalistic".

A book of extraordinary intelligence, humanity and (formalistic) cunning.

But Pakistan declined to go beyond that formalistic undertaking.

Part of it is the formalistic courtesies of war.

"One significant concern is whether the S.E.C. will follow up on this rule-making by actively pushing back at rating agencies if these attempts at mandating greater rating agency transparency turn out to produce opaque or formalistic disclosures in practice," said Jeffrey Manns, a professor at George Washington University law school, who is an expert in credit rating agencies.

She says he "prattles on" and dismisses some of his arguments as "pretentious and formalistic".

Judge Kaplan disagreed with this "formalistic" interpretation, musing instead that such swaps let activists "ambush" companies.

But his formalistic approach serves mainly to perpetuate the intellectual confusion of our "post-ideological" age.

"It's a formalistic show," she said, "one that is both serene and contemplative".