Sentence examples for very formalistic from inspiring English sources

Maximum parsimony methods are related to cladistics, a very formalistic theory of taxonomic classification, extensively used with morphological and paleontological data.

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.

The problem is not that the Supreme Court is out of touch with the real world, but that it uses formalistic legal reasoning to support decisions clearly favoring certain interests.

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.

Although alliteration was still very important, the alliterative line became freer: the second half line often contained more than one alliterating word, and other formalistic restrictions were gradually disregarded.

It became a little more formalistic".

It lingered as a quaint reminder of a formalistic approach to the constitutional separation of powers, even as the modern administrative state, with powerful regulatory agencies engaging in what often looks very much like lawmaking, grew up around it.

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.

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