legalism

How To Use legalism In A Sentence

• As in many things, we must walk that line between legalism or pietism on the one hand and licentiousness on the other.
• Instead of careful legalisms, there was an easy flow of answers, even if some were too pat.
• The legalism was too tough and the first empire that tried it, the Qin empire, which gave China its name lasted only two emperors, then got kicked out.
• These concerns for purity should not be understood as pettifogging legalism.
• There are the two extremes of legalism and antinomianism to avoid.
• I ask only because the ‘debate’ about the use of this horrible substance appears to be sliding into maze of legalism and moralism.
• It also inherited the Roman virtue of sound organization, based on a powerful central authority, and preserved by strict legalism.
• Much as one might want to avoid an annual freshet of legalism, it is very hard to argue that there is not. Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
• Canadian science-based risk regulation has ample room to move away from closed-door bargaining and its lack of public accountability, without falling into the pitfalls of American pluralist legalism.
• To view it differently is to prefer brain-dead legalism to survival.