1. Mathematicians like to characterize things by being formalist.

2. 14 The Formalists evaluate literary form for its perceptibility and not for its mimetic capacity.

3. In comics, I know that it results in sort of a formalist attitude towards trying to understand how it works.

4. Andrei Zhdanov, Chairman of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet, accused Shostakovich and other composers (such as Sergei Prokofiev and Aram Khachaturian) of writing inappropriate and formalist music.

5. Both the new novelists and the new theorists detested Balzacian realism and psychological character studies, and embraced a formalist view of language, embedded in an anti-humanist view of subjectivity

6. That God in wisdom bringeth mens ceremo∣nies to a dispute, and so to be refuted and contemned, then especially when men do presse them most; for now Christ taketh on the plan, and answereth for his Disciples, and Confuteth the Formalists by four rea∣sons.

7. ‘But Ellis shows strength with the sonnet ‘Kitchen Witches’ and the Aubade ‘Space.’’ ‘It should be clear from these quotes that Davis is an effortless formalist, and he excels at the epigram, Aubade, and sonnet.’ ‘In this love poem, this free-verse Aubade, one lover …