The Republicans might have seemed more sympathetic and congenial allies; but many even of them seemed too remote and formal in their ideals, too much wrapped up in visions of a future Ireland, free and indivisible, to have time to spare for the formulation of the means by which all Irishmen might really be free.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
Such a logic can never be fruitful, for it has lost sight of its purpose in the formulation of its problem.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
An instance of this is the consistency with my expectation of the alternation of day and night, of either the Ptolemaic or Copernican formulation of the solar system.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry