Religious subjects were now treated by the sculptors with superficial formalism and cynical indifference, while all their ingenuity was bestowed upon providing pagan myths with new forms.
I might point in particular to two knights seated on one horse in what I take to be the company of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea, as an instance of a successful attempt to escape from the formalism of a decayed style.
The revived interest in antique literature widened their sympathies and supplied their fancy with new material; but there is no imitative formalism in their work.
It was not until Canova came at the end of the eighteenth century that there was any gleam of hope for sculpture, and even this was eclipsed to some extent by the classic formalism which came in with it.
Formalism is the hall-mark of the national culture, and sins against the one are sins against the other.
Its finitude lies in the formalismthat the spontaneity of its self-fulfilment means no more than a general and abstract ownness, not yet identified with matured reason.
In the episcopal church of England= the living power of the gospel had evaporated into the formalism of scholastic learning and a mechanical ritualism.
The objection to analytic realism as a metaphysics of existence is not so much an undue formalism as its affront to the commonsense-world of action, appreciation, and affection.
There is apparent not alone an entire absence of formula and formalism in His ministration, but a lack of uniformity of procedure quite as impressive.
This he might attribute, if he chose, to that innate and sound formalism which would always lead her to observe the rules of the game; if from no special respect for them as such, then out of deference to the prejudices of others.
Between Anglican formalism and Calvinistic austerity, the Lutherans presented a compromise: they devised no uniform liturgy, but showed some inclination to utilize forms and ceremonies.
The writings of the century are here arranged in three main divisions: the reign of formalism (miscalled classicism), the revival of romantic poetry, and the development of the modern novel.
Our review of the romantic writers of the age covers: (1) The work of Collins and Gray, whose imaginative poems are in refreshing contrast to the formalism of Pope and his school.
Its limits are very indefinite, merging into Elizabethan romance on the one side, and into eighteenth centuryformalism on the other.
The aim of this pamphlet is to rid the teaching of English, including grammar, of its accumulated formalism and ineffectiveness--to make it genuine instruction instead of a pedantic and meaningless routine.
Does not Antigone rest on a similar conflict between Antigone's simple human way of showing her sisterly affection and the rigid formalism of the orthodoxy of her day?
Their merit is their evident conviction that thisformalism is inadequate.
But here it must suffice to observe that formalism had succeeded by the operation of natural influences to the vigor and inventiveness of the national genius in the main departments of literature and fine art.
If this type were a mere mathematical type, its applicability to the expression of human emotions would be limited to a formalism absolutely fatal to the freedom of thought in Art.
In avoiding the exuberance of the latter and the rigid formalism of the former, a work of human thought and Love has been evolved.
The gospel of formalism will spring up and flourish on the most evangelical soil, and in the most strictly Pauline Churches.
The generous devotion of youth is followed by the lethargy and formalism of a prosperous age; and the man who at twenty-five was a pattern of godly zeal, at fifty is a finished worldling.
Christ evokes the faith which shakes off legal bondage, leaving the age of formalism and ritual behind, and beginning for the world an era of spiritual freedom.
Externalism and formalismseem to have been their most frequent characteristics; and externalism and formalism are poor weapons when the enemy cometh in like a food.
And the explanation is, that the true spirit of Divine service had utterly evaporated from among the priesthood, and the miserable spirit of formalism had come in.
Teachers of philosophy and psychology too often fall into a formalism that robs their subject of all its vitalizing influences.
Hence the mention of this kind of formalism or the denunciation of it must be very cautiously used as a criterion by which to date any Scriptural writings.
He did not entirely free himself from the dismal formalism of his predecessors, but he infused new life into the old traditional types.
He retained the ancient formulas, destroying, however, their formalism by the inspiration of new life.
Miserable quarrels between the schools and a spiritless formalism now widely prevailed in the lecture halls, as well as in the treatises of the learned.
Seeing the need of infusing new life into the corrupt scholasticism, he sought to rescue it from utter formalism and fruitless casuistry by a return to simple, clear, and rational thinking.
Lotze, in common with the great majority of thinkers, was dissatisfied with Zimmermann, but could only oppose his formalism with a variety of the old mystical Aesthetic.
Hartmann considers himself in opposition to the formalism of Herbart, inasmuch as he insists upon the idea as an indispensable and determining element of beauty.
It needed all Wagner's gigantic personality to rise above this wave of formalism that looked to the past for its salvation, a past which was one of childish experimenting rather than of aesthetic accomplishment.
In so doing, however, he shattered many of the great idols of formalism by the sheer violence of his expression.
France had not yet recovered from the empty formalism of the preceding century, Bernardin de St. Pierre was a kind of colonial Mlle.
It did not break through formalism by sheer violence of emotion, as did Beethoven's; least of all has it Mendelssohn's orthodox dress.
We do not want the rules of a cold and barren formalism to regulate our ways; but we want a more fervent affection for the person of Christ, and a more lively desire for His speedy return.
It is a monument of the pedantic and punctiliousformalism of the Egyptian ritual.
Against these hopeless alliances, and against the idolatry and the formalismwhich debased the people, the prophets contended with intense earnestness and unflinching courage.
It was only in the West, also, that the motives that were adequate to inspire a Christian art, after a long struggle against Byzantine formalism and convention, could issue in a prophetic artistic progress.
The rationalism of the eighteenth century, accompanying a period of doctrinal strife and lifeless formalism in the Church, repressed those unquestioning enthusiasms which are the only source of a genuinely expressive popular hymnody.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "formalism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: celebration; cult; elegance; euphemism; euphuism; formality; pedantry; preciosity; symbolism
