formalist
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In addition to its dream cast it has a formalist precision resembling musical composition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Coogler and actor Adrien Brody both wore broad-shouldered suits paired with T-shirts and more formalist cummerbunds — a house style of Fear of God.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
In the 51-page, partially redacted document, Sir Peter said Harry's lawyers had taken "an inappropriate, formalist interpretation of the Ravec process".
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
Twenty years after the formalist poet Anthony Hecht died, he seems to be having a mini-revival with the simultaneous release, from separate publishers, of a biography and a vast collected poems.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Nay, the very sects and subdivisions of all historic religions have been the same, and each supplies us with mystic and rationalist, formalist and philanthropist, ascetic and epicurean.
From The Sympathy of Religions by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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