Formalism

(noun.) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms.

(noun.) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented.

(noun.) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications.

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• Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Reacting against an empty formalism they are tumbling over themselves to prove how directly they touch daily life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Thou never had one, Pilar told him, the insults having reached the ultimate formalism in Spanish in which the acts are never stated but only implied. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Formalism sets in as you move east and south into the older and more settled communities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The very air of America would seem to be a guarantee against formalism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For the bogs of technical stupidity and empty formalism are always near and always dangerous. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Without some new dynamic force America, for all her tradition, is not immune to a hardening formalism. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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