formalist
Example Sentences
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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
He was dogged by censors and branded a formalist.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
In the second, the gray of that day of art is silvering the self-painted portrait of the prematurely frigid and facile formalist, Andrea del Sarto.
From Men and Women by Charlotte Endymion Porter
