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Kabalevsky succumbed to Stalin’s decrees against formalistic art, and he has never been taken seriously in the West.

It’s foundational and it’s formalistic, but it’s not going anywhere.

As a filmmaker, Hogg is a seemingly incongruous blend of free-flowing and formalistic.

The details in Shum’s memoir also highlight the limitations of more formalistic analysis of China’s political system.

The culture minister’s committee recommended in 2020 that the “balance” test be abandoned and called for a more empathetic approach, saying that the restitutions committee needed to become less formalistic in its responses to claims.