The formal purity and technical excellence of Bach's music were not its primary reason for existing.

They stayed wholly within a classical frame, stylistically attuned to each other in the formal purity of their movement.

It is difficult not to be in awe of the modernists' drive for formal purity in their art.

The painting's restraint and formal purity strongly appealed when Piero was first "discovered," especially to admirers of cubist and abstract art.

All have her particular combination of formal purity and psychological murkiness.

The piece harks back to the smooth, spare, dreaming heads of Brancusi, while rejecting his formal purity.

A choreographer who combines formal purity and pungent social comment is rare amid the confessional outpourings on the postmodern dance scene.

One of the most remarkable characteristics of flamenco has been its formal purity.

The finished plan had all the formal, sequential, rhythmic purity of a Mondrian painting.

How could this intense agony manifest itself in pleasant linear curves and formal purity?