Sentence examples for purely formal from inspiring English sources

To embrace a purely formal approach to analogy and to abjure formalization entirely are two extremes in a spectrum of strategies.

Some of the mismatch feels purely formal.

A masterpiece must also have powers beyond the purely formal.

One was to stress (and overstress) its purely formal properties.

"As a purely formal matter, one could argue that Olson and Boies are correct," Hunter said.

It's easy to overlook the many thrilling features of purely formal beauty in Soledad Barrio's dancing.

His logic was thus an irrelevant abstraction, its beauty purely formal.

Many of the precisely synchronized actions had purely formal beauty; others suggested the tumultuousness of life.

One is free to appreciate these projects on purely formal terms.

They are not "true" propositions but only logically correct propositions of purely formal content.

In 1960, when Trujillo's brother "Blacky" resigned the post, he became president, a purely formal role.