The combination of formal ingenuity and period detail (Neil Diamond on a soundtrack) generates a certain black humor.

The next two episodes are rich in emotional implications, as well as formal ingenuity.

It is the product of formal ingenuity and a powerfully synthetic imagination.

The work could be appreciated simply for its formal ingenuity.

Unfortunately, his anemic choreography has little emotional resonance or formal ingenuity.

These sonatas are prized for both their technical difficulty and their musical and formal ingenuity.

The subject calls for formal ingenuity.

His strong suit, however, is not in the pictorial but in the formal ingenuity of his choreography.

My favorite fiction displays a combination of intellectual rigor, emotional intelligence, formal ingenuity, and interesting aesthetics, which is related to formal arrangement.

Erick Hawkins's "Cantilever Two" was impressive for the depth of its formal ingenuity.