George: Oh, at St Martin's we were taken very seriously - almost as a threat, really, because the style of art that was current was formalistic art.
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.
In a country where criminal proceedings are normally measured in hours, and are formalistic, procedural affairs whose outcome is decided elsewhere and well in advance, Mr Bo's trial has been anything but scripted.
In part this was because most musicology of the 1970's was formalistic and analytic; scholars would outline the structure of a work, find its stylistic precursors and successors, and occasionally invoke a wider cultural context.
Part of it is the formalistic courtesies of war.
Although Ms. McWhinnie's watercolor still lifes are billed as "glimpses of memories," their effect is more formalistic than nostalgic.
From this a second objection arose: Kantianism in general is too formalistic to satisfy human inquisitiveness, which inclines more and more toward concrete concerns.
These two responses give us versions of fictionalism that, for lack of a better pair of terms, can be called formalistic fictionalism and non-formalistic fictionalism.
Deontological theories have been termed formalistic, because their central principle lies in the conformity of an action to some rule or law.
Using shock cuts, tinting and visual distortion, it was too formalistic for the Czech authorities to tolerate, and Chytilová was prevented from making another feature for eight years.
