formulism
noun
adherence to or reliance on formulas.
formulistic
-
a word derived from
formulism.
Example Sentences
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For many listeners Heracles may simply have finished off serialism, suggesting that little more can be done to make that strait-laced and formulistic method of sticking notes together work in operatic terms.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley as a tool of the Plutocracy.
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Constructed along formulistic lines, his gallivanting around the dizzy cliffs yet has its comic urge.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are commonly located at the four cardinal points, each of which has a peculiar formulistic name and a special color which applies to everything in the same connection.
The formulistic expression, “He is entirely blue,” closely approximates in meaning the common English phrase, “He feels blue.”
