I even gave them names: the classicist, the animist, the formalist and iconoclast.

But I also claim that the film version is invariably so much improved, that only a formalist could prefer the book version.

It was a wet and windy afternoon: Georgiana had fallen asleep on the sofa over the perusal of a novel; Eliza was gone to attend a saint's-day service at the new church--for in matters of religion she was a rigid formalist: no weather ever prevented the punctual discharge of what she considered her devotional duties; fair or foul, she went to church thrice every Sunday, and as often on week-days as there were prayers.

Formalist in sentence

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