Entertainment / Music / Formalism: Tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in Neoclassical music.
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Technology / Programming / Function: Something that is called with parentheses, e.g., sqrt(). Specifically, a portion of code that is designed for one mini-task, e.g., draw a line, draw a square, compute the square root, or find the larg MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Modernism: A vague, amorphous term referring to the art, poetry, literature, architecture, and philosophy of Europe and America in the early twentieth-century. Scholars do not agree exactly when Modernism began- MORE