Sentence examples for formalistic elements from inspiring English sources

The law that the magistrates applied probably consisted of three elements: (1) an existing mercantile law that was used by the Mediterranean traders; (2) those institutions of the Roman law that, after being purged of their formalistic elements, could be applied universally to any litigant, Roman or foreigner; and (3) in the last resort, a magistrate's own sense of what was fair and just.

But definite formalistic elements surface in Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

The Franks and Saxons inherited an art that was formalistic rather than realistic, and this permitted their coin designs to be made up from a small number of standard elements that were reproducible using punches.

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.

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.

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

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