1.   It was not easy to balance formal rigor with social content.

2.   Like Charles Gwathmey, Eisenman was once part of the Whites, a group of architects who sought to uphold the formal rigor of European modernism.

3.   Traces of these influences are evident in his choreographic style, which shows formal rigor and structure but is shot through with naturalistic gesture.

4.   We can relate to his sense of formal rigor and his taste for the science of optics in modernist terms.

5.   With an unerring instinct for the perfectly pitched gesture, he revealed an unsuspected sensuousness within the formal rigor of post-modern dance.