Example Sentences

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“I’m a formalist and legalist by orientation,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 4, 2022

We live now in this cancel culture, and as for me, everyone can have their own opinions, but I am one of these guys who can be called a "legalist," and less a moralist.

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2021

Having done much of the spade work on Dumbarton Oaks, able legalist Ben Cohen had coveted the now-vacant job of counselor to the State Department.

From Time Magazine Archive

Strauss was speaking of that odd couple of the Middle East, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the mercurial visionary, and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, the Talmudic legalist.

From Time Magazine Archive

For no man is such a legalist as the good Secularist.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)