(n.) One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) This approach actually substitutes individual analysis and classification of a tumour for a formalistic consideration and is likely to offer the clinician a better decision-finding aid for therapeutic approach to the individual case.
(2) He also called for increased accessibility from the company, writing, “Today, if it is possible at all to get in touch with a Facebook representative, the best one may hope for are brief, formalistic answers, with rigid references to universal rules and guidelines.” “While we recognize that this photo is iconic, it’s difficult to create a distinction between allowing a photograph of a nude child in one instance and not others,” a spokesman for Facebook said in response to queries from the Guardian.
(3) , “Borders except as formalistic markers of jurisdiction typically did not register prominently in the thinking of princes, not least because until the advent of modern systems of regulatory bureaucracy, rigorous border control was simply beyond the capacity of rulers.” According to the deal, Maley continues, Europeans could still migrate from place to place.
(4) This paper critically appraises the applied action-guide approach to bioethics and finds it wanting in two ways: it is tethered to a social contract view of the doctor-patient relationship that is largely incompatible with experiences of illness and care; and, as a formalist doctrine, it lacks critical edge and tends toward accommodationism.
(5) Therefore in a great number of cases statistical means were chosen from a formalistic point of view and not, as it would be much more appreciated, according to the specific nature of the data or to pertinent accounts.
(6) "People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting.
(7) By recent work by Tinbergen in ethology confines the term to rigid, highly formalistic, exaggerated behavior by animals in situations of compromise formation, where the animal is moved by contrary impulses to action.
(8) New techniques were developed to examine the ability of these subjects to express emotion in words; formalistic and pragmatic analyses of the discourse were conducted.
(9) The court relied on formalistic evidentiary arguments to vitiate the patient's refusal of death-prolonging treatment.
(10) Similarly, in psychoanalytic writings the word is reserved for rigid formalistic actions which are defence mechanisms.
(11) So the future of the Fourth Amendment will therefore depend not on the particular doctrines of the case, but on whether the formalistic justices – the ones with a line of reasoning that lacks agility to deal with a radically changing world – prevail over those who take a broader constitutional vision.
(12) The decompensation of the insulin-dependent type of diabetes mellitus under domestic conditions results from a low level of education of patients and their family members with regard to therapy of this disease, a formalistic attitude to doctor's recommendations and the absence of a regular control over a course of disease.
Stickler
Definition:
(v. t.) One who stickles.
(v. t.) One who arbitrates a duel; a sidesman to a fencer; a second; an umpire.
(v. t.) One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schwartz was a stickler for historical detail, which, combined with Friedman's vision of a unifying structure for tracing the effects of monetary developments on the economy, led to an entertaining work that changed our view of how the macroeconomy worked.
(2) These findings suggest that, at least in some families, the mutation causing Stickler syndrome affects the structural locus for type II collagen.
(3) (A little later, I watch director Foley ask a genially menacing professor Capaldi to lift, and lift, and lift, the needle from a record in, I think it was, 12 different ways, to get it just so; I think "stickler" is fair.)
(4) The ocular histopathologic findings in three patients with the Stickler syndrome from two families included the following: total retinal detachment with marked folding, disorganization of the retina, and a preretinal membrane.
(5) The phone-hacking trial has thrown up many nibblettes of celebrity ephemera, but perhaps the most extraordinary latest reveal is that Her Majesty is a stickler for her snacks .
(6) The total LOD score for linkage of the Stickler syndrome and COL2A1 at a recombination fraction (theta) of zero is 3.59.
(7) A three generation family with Stickler syndrome is reported.
(8) The Stickler syndrome is an autosomal dominant hereditary disorder of connective tissue with pleiotropic features including premature osteoarthropathy, mild spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, vitreoretinal degeneration, and the Pierre-Robin sequence.
(9) They deplore the loss of ancient liturgy and Latin; they are sticklers for the rules, especially on sexual morality, and prize top-down authority over individual conscience.
(10) Our experience suggests that the Stickler syndrome is not rare.
(11) Because of the growing list of complications associated with mitral-valve prolapse, all patients with Stickler syndrome should be evaluated by auscultation, electrocardiogram, and echocardiography.
(12) That the Chinese, normally sticklers for protocol, agreed showed Xi was more open than his predecessors, Ruan Zongze, a vice-president of the China Institute of International Studies, a thinktank linked to the Chinese foreign ministry, told Reuters.
(13) Stickler's syndrome is a congenital disease of connective tissue with considerable ocular and non-ocular lesions.
(14) My mother is a stickler for tidiness and that has come in handy.
(15) Stickler syndrome may be underrecognized by rheumatologists, particularly if the significance of nonarticular clinical features or a positive family history are not appreciated.
(16) A family is described illustrating diverse expressions of Stickler syndrome, including abnormalities not directly attributable to mutation of the type II procollagen gene.
(17) BBC staffers not already familiar with their new boss may also like to know that he is a stickler for punctuality.
(18) Hereditary Arthro-ophthalmopathy (The Stickler Syndrome) is a relatively common dominantly inherited disorder of connective tissue.
(19) The once scruffy youth became a stickler for sartorial decorum.
(20) We report the occurrence of progressive Brown-Séquard syndrome as the presenting clinical feature of cervical spondylosis in a young patient with Stickler's syndrome.