mandarinism

Caroline's actions display a sort of domestic mandarinism which was calculating and far from the fragile exotic in need of protection.

But his under-the-radar visuality has more than a touch of Minimalist Mandarinism à la Brice Marden.

Vice versa, the Parisian man of letters is beginning to understand that an end has come to the tradition of literary mandarinism, of verbal formalism, and would prefer, while keeping some of the better qualities of that tradition, to amplify it with certain virtues of the German professor.