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It’s foundational and it’s formalistic, but it’s not going anywhere.

As a filmmaker, Hogg is a seemingly incongruous blend of free-flowing and formalistic.

The details in Shum’s memoir also highlight the limitations of more formalistic analysis of China’s political system.

The culture minister’s committee recommended in 2020 that the “balance” test be abandoned and called for a more empathetic approach, saying that the restitutions committee needed to become less formalistic in its responses to claims.

The organizing committee failed to implement its protocols for managing the race and was guilty of being "overly formalistic and bureaucratic," the report said.