Sentence examples for rather formalistic from inspiring English sources
In some countries the interrogation of witnesses is, however, rather formalistic because it is generally limited to questions concerning allegations specified in the evidence judgment.
This stimulated the analysis of religious language, and the movement was complicated by the transformation in the thought of the Austrian-English philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 1951), who in his later thought was very far removed from his early, rather formalistic treatment of language.
A rather different approach to myths was made by the 20th-century French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss Lévi-Straussr formalistic structuralism tended to reinforce analogies betwhose"pratherve" and sophisticated thinking and also provided a new method oformalistic mythstructuralism.
Janet M. Gorzegno's two small panel paintings include faces, but they are detached and mask-like, formalistic rather than expressive.
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.
Judge Kaplan disagreed with this "formalistic" interpretation, musing instead that such swaps let activists "ambush" companies.
By formalistic, I mean a relatively wooden adherence to a set formula rather than a functional approach based on the protective purposes of the Confrontation Clause.
By reducing the multiplicity of arguments one found in thinkers from David Hume and Adam Smith to James Mill and David Ricardo--let Ricardo--letic journaloneic argumeconomicfound in Frederic Bastiat--to the formalistic model of competitive equilibrium, the theorists of mid-20th century economics set up a rather fragile argument for the defense of free trade as the best policy.
It became a little more formalistic".
A book of extraordinary intelligence, humanity and (formalistic) cunning.
This formalistic law of evidence was not, however, universally held.
