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Meanings of formalism in English
Portuguese
formalismo Catalan
formalisme 
Study of art by analyzing and comparing form and style.
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Portuguese
formalismo Catalan
formalisme View that statements of logic can be considered to be statements about the consequences of certain string manipulation rules.
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Music term; concept that a composition's meaning is entirely determined by its form.
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Usage of formalism in English
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Then there is the religious formalism of the Eppings and their friends.
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In such phrases, we grasp the essential difference between formalism and functionalism.
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At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
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And yet this prayer is first of all a protest against formalism.
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Any explanation would be futile of this branch of a forgotten formalism.
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It is always, I believe, a sign of decadence when formalism begins.
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They degenerate either into formalism and hypocrisy, or into spiritual self- indulgence.
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A new formalism for a better characterization of this long source is presented.
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Taking love seriously in art doesn't have to mean walking away from formalism.
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Tory sensed formalism behind the ceremony that went beyond mere politeness.
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Towards the end he was sometimes guilty of an empty formalism and self-caricature.
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The very air of America would seem to be a guarantee against formalism.
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Fractal geometry has provided a mathematical formalism for describing complex and dynamical structures.
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That principle cuts up all religious formalism by the very roots.
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Dead formalism changes reverence into dread, and will not speak it.
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But what most disgusted him with these vulgarians of music was their formalism.
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Formalism through the time
Formalism across language varieties
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