A masterpiece must also have powers beyond the purely formal.

You cannot approach this work on a purely formal.

For other artists, the lessons to be learned from van Gogh were purely formal.

The college no longer functions as an administrative body and its use is purely formal.

This isn't just a purely formal difficulty, by the way.

But the artist insists that her concerns are purely formal.

The proceedings next morning were purely formal, evidence of arrest only being given.

Expressed in purely formal terms (Table 4.1) there is very little similarity between them.

Thus an art that seems to be purely formal and exceedingly poetic comes around to the political by the back door.

The proceedings were purely formal and occupied only a few minutes.