Formalists

Formalists might observe that they share a fascination with brilliant, saturated hues and sensuous surfaces.

Channeling American Abstraction Karen Wilkin 2010

Formalists have invested in projects that are earning formalism a bad names, with high designers like Gehry and Koolhaas associating their most fanciful work to date with repressive oil-rich regimes at a time when neither repression nor oil is all that popular.

Matthew Yglesias » Pretty Pictures 2009

(Of course, the Russian Formalists would have insisted that he actually know something about the original text.)

Are All Deaths Suicides? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

I think he was using the word “scientific” the way the Soviets used that word, or at least the way the Russian Formalists used it for their literary criticisms.

Are All Deaths Suicides? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Formalists tend to be more extreme on issues, viewing rights as all or nothing that have to be respected though the heavens may fall, even if sometimes the conservative and liberal formalists are united in being more extreme about refusing to balance rights and reach the same goal.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Souter, Sotomayor, & Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts: 2009

And Alicia finds that women are harder to find at the other extreme, that of “New Formalists,” which is also, you must admit, a form of Conceptual Poetry.

By the Numbers : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

Part of a folk trio - The Formalists - they joined Jefferson Starship and played there together until drummer/virtuoso Eric Partridge left to work on solo projects, like his S&M masterpiece, Usage and Abusage.

Hell in a Handbasket: More Disturbing Signs BikeSnobNYC 2009

Formalists have been tapping their canes for about a century now.

John Lundberg: Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore? 2008

I don't think it's something that has to do with rhyme and meter, which is what the New Formalists were so concerned with.

The Witch's Sister Theodora Goss 2008

Formalists do not try to make logical "deductions" but instead pay heightened attition to legal procedure (e.g. favoring enacted text over unenacted commitee reports, or interpreting cases according to what they say rather than according to what the judge "really" was thinking).

Balkinization 2006