formalist
形式主义,形式主义者,形式主义者,形式主义的
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Definitions
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- : strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- : Religion. strong attachment to external forms and observances.
- : Ethics. a doctrine that acts are in themselves right or wrong regardless of consequences.
- : Logic, Mathematics. a doctrine, which evolved from a proposal of David Hilbert, that mathematics, including the logic used in proofs, can be based on the formal manipulation of symbols without regard to their meaning.
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Examples
They are usually treated with the utmost sobriety, pondered as great works of formalist – even spiritual – exploration.
Flavin was keen on such mundane connections in his earliest years, then rejected them when he became a famous formalist.
The messy signature actually detracts and distracts from a formalist reading of these otherwise pristine works.
Shklovsky, a literary critic who co-founded the Russian Formalist movement, was hopelessly in love with the writer Elsa Triolet.
Winston is rigorous in requiring what is due to his position—is, in some respects, a fearful formalist.
But Goethe was not a formalist, and he was very far from the static conception of life which is at the base of pure morphology.
As an upholder of the law he becomes a formalist and a reactionary.
"They appear to like the formalist too, as well as the form," said Colville, with scorn not obviously necessary.
He seemed to the king to be a tiresome formalist and censor, who was only scrupulous in resisting the royal will.