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Things formalist often describes ("formalist ________")
- definitions
- concept
- method
- criticism
- doctrines
- parlance
- approach
- studies
- aesthetic
- approaches
- study
- considerations
- works
- ideas
- historians
- school
- practice
- poetics
- manner
- views
- philosophy
- rationalism
- modernism
- reading
- definition
- tenets
- poetry
- principles
- poet
- interpretation
- reasoning
- ideology
- analyses
- view
- terminology
- traditions
- methodology
- theory
- position
- writings
- model
- research
- abstraction
- experiments
- critic
- term
- tradition
- critics
- notion
- notions
- account
- thinking
- dogma
- aesthetics
- theories
- accounts
- road
- theorists
- analysis
- project
- spokesmen
- argument
- positions
- logic
- discourse
- readings
- folklorist
- distinction
- art
- philosophers
- concerns
- concepts
- fashion
- theorizing
- perspective
- terms
- experimentation
- assumptions
- conception
- texts
- theoreticians
- debate
- tendencies
- consciousness
- doctrine
- linguistics
- movement
How formalist often is described ("________ formalist")
- moral
- empty
- modern
- stupid
- terrible
- dead
- modernist
- bourgeois
- strictest
- orthodox
- hollow
- dull
- neolithic
- anti
- most
- called
- religious
- old
- cold
- accomplished
- legal
- century
- legalised
- consistent
- ethical
- great
- more
- less
- mathematical
- contemporary
- incorrigible
- starched
- theoretical
- mystic
- classical
- perfect
- excellent
- evangelical
- moderate
- sufficient
- later
- sapless
- grave
- righteous
- proud
- legalized
- dry
- peripheral
- mere
- austere
- extreme
- cautious
- rigid
- thoroughgoing
- russian
- heartless
- true
- abstract
- tiresome
- greatest
- narrow
- mystical
- satisfied
- rigorous
- superstitious
- aesthetic
- highly
- pure
- literary
- musical
- severe
- strict
- conservative
- rational
- radical
- decadent
- blooded
