formalists

I'm not arguing that everything the Realists said about the "formalists" is incorrect, but that we have a serious misperception of what people actually thought about law during the formalist period.

Balkinization 2007

The "formalists" or entomologists hold that the natural flies actually on the water should be studied and imitated by the fly-maker, down to the most minute particulars.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Certain apparently defensible prejudices that prevail in the minds of even advanced musical critics against the idea of Form in music, originate in a very manifest mistake on the part of the "formalists" themselves, who (I refer to unimpassioned theorists and advocates of rigid old scholastic rules) place too narrow a construction upon Form, and define it with such rigor as to leave no margin whatever for the exercise of free fancy and emotional sway.

Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Percy Goetschius 1898

"formalists" or "icontrashists", you know, the kind of dude who doesn't care much for

COMIXTALK 2009

'formalists' who were preoccupied with the predicament of the individual, or maybe pure questions of form, has led to difficulties of the kind that I see in your comment.

Kafila 2009

In being the last representative of this old wave of formalists, Malick stands curiously in defiance to the newer generation of formalists who have rewritten the rules of surreality with hyper-structural narrative exercises that set action in the foreground while abandoning the space of contemplation altogether in exchange for the sensory overload of Computer Generated Imaging CGI and madly paced escapes to nowhere certain.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

In being the last representative of this old wave of formalists, Malick stands curiously in defiance to the newer generation of formalists who have rewritten the rules of surreality with hyper-structural narrative exercises that set action in the foreground while abandoning the space of contemplation altogether in exchange for the sensory overload of Computer Generated Imaging CGI and madly paced escapes to nowhere certain.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

In being the last representative of this old wave of formalists, Malick stands curiously in defiance to the newer generation of formalists who have rewritten the rules of surreality with hyper-structural narrative exercises that set action in the foreground while abandoning the space of contemplation altogether in exchange for the sensory overload of Computer Generated Imaging CGI and madly paced escapes to nowhere certain.

G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man G. Roger Denson 2011

The major formalists write poetry of such insatiable calm, such soothing tones, such placid removal from the tectonic shifts of contemporary American culture, especially as they get older, that one doubts their lasting value.

Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011

The major formalists write poetry of such insatiable calm, such soothing tones, such placid removal from the tectonic shifts of contemporary American culture, especially as they get older, that one doubts their lasting value.

Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship Anis Shivani 2011