formalism

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And so when I was starting to write screenplays at first that was very daunting to me, the rigidity of that formalism, having to write slug lines and all of that.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

They used the matrix formalism combined with the conventional inverse problem-solving methodology to find the optimal performance and the final configuration of the solar device.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

“Is there a universal basis for selection? Is there a more quantitative formalism underlying this conjectured conceptual equivalence—a formalism rooted in the transfer of information?,” they ask of the world’s disparate phenomena.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

But disillusionment quickly set in: Mochizuki had spent 20 years single-handedly developing no fewer than 500 pages of a completely new formalism that other experts needed to decipher.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2023

It seemed as if some penetrating lucidity permitted her to see the reality of things beyond any formalism.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez