Prior to the 1960s, courts applied these doctrines in a highly formalistic fashion.
The report found, among other things, that the agencies handled disputes in a "perfunctory" or "formalistic" manner.
However they do not address the issue of the application of mathematics, construed in this concrete, formalistic fashion.
Non-statutory rules or policies are "often drafted in a more flexible and less formalistic and precise way than statutory rules, thus leaving more leeway in their application".
The styles of this school grew in popularity throughout the 20th century, superseding the traditional and formalistic rikka style.
Although suiboku-ga was popular well into the Tokugawa period (1603 1867), it soon lost its spontaneity and became formalistic in style.
On the other hand, there is the more formalistic or structural style of deconstruction, which examines a-historical paradoxes or aporias.
Its proponents are as eager to exhibit the ritualist and formalistic aspects of Islam in a crudely interventionist way, such as the imposition of prayer, the segregation of men and women and enforcement of the niqab, as they are to keep it remote from politics and the realms of power and authority.
In developing countries ideas about administrative reform often move in the direction of the more formalistic Weberian ideal particularly the creation of universalistic standards, regular procedures, and accountability.
For a long time, he attacked the Xikun style, then popular, for its formalistic tendency and argued that writings should be utilitarian.
