With the inclusion of male abstract sculptors from the same period such as David Smith, Donald Judd and Richard Serra, the show certainly would have had a different formal character, more angular and rectilinear, more hard and metallic. (artillerymag.com)
The formal character of the story conceals a crucial point with regard to naming. (religion-online.org)
As a category in Whitehead's philosophy, creativity (along with «one» and «many») may be designated the «ultimate of ultimates» (Process 21), but as such it is only an abstraction, the formal character of any actual occasion. (religion-online.org)