formalistic
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The argument advanced by the IRS is a formalistic one that results in an absurdity: Cryptocurrency wasn’t explicitly included in the list of items that meet the “readily valued property” exemption to the appraisal rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Kabalevsky succumbed to Stalin’s decrees against formalistic art, and he has never been taken seriously in the West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
As a filmmaker, Hogg is a seemingly incongruous blend of free-flowing and formalistic.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
“This would be a clean, formalistic way for the court to resolve the case,” Andrew Koppelman, a law professor at Northwestern University, said in an interview.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2015
Since he thus reduces beauty to abstract relations he is known as a formalist, and the founder of the formalistic school in aesthetics.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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