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Mr. Stella, a formalist of Calvinist severity, rejected all attempts to interpret his work.

Where Trump-branded messaging and merchandise once had the power to upend establishment mores and expectations, they now feel like the political equivalent of a rock ensemble’s county fair tour: a purely formalist effort to satisfy the nostalgic longings of a diminishing fan base.

In the 51-page, partially redacted document, Sir Peter said Harry's lawyers had taken "an inappropriate, formalist interpretation of the Ravec process".

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.

Hüller had previously never wanted to play a Nazi but she was coaxed into doing it for Glazer’s film, a formalist portrait of a family living alongside Auschwitz, seemingly unperturbed by the horror Rudolf oversees next door.