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
The details in Shum’s memoir also highlight the limitations of more formalistic analysis of China’s political system.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2021
If conditions which are local, temporal, and individual, are fixed as constant rules, and carried beyond their proper limits, are systematized as a valuable formalistic code, unavoidable error arises.
From Pedagogics as a System by Anna C. (Anna Callender) Brackett
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