formalist

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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

Aster may ultimately be too much the formalist control freak to achieve the crazy, let-it-all-hang-out catharsis he’s chasing, and the elaborate trap he’s engineered for Beau seems to close, finally, on himself.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023

Zonana again employs the same formalist approach he used in his stunning debut, "Workforce," with artfully composed still shots that observe the action in a cold, detached manner.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2023

More than 350 pictures, including many by the leading names of the Ukrainian avant-garde, were immured in the vaults of what is now the National Art Museum in Kyiv, owing to their “counterrevolutionary formalist methods.”

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022

He seemed to the king to be a tiresome formalist and censor, who was only scrupulous in resisting the royal will.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George