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"formulaic" Definitions
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We're rarely surprised, though, because a formulaic trailer is typically selling a formulaic movie.
So I think that when we're putting these two-dimensional characters in a very formulaic genre or a genre that you're forcing to be formulaic.
SJ: I've always admired how your paintings resist being formulaic.
But surprisingly, many of their secrets to success seem formulaic.
This is evidenced by their similarly formulaic and cheesy pilots.
Fighting With My Family: WWE dramedy is formulaic but charming.
It was very formulaic; not a lot of chord changes.
But the game has always been formulaic in its approach.
He said the shows are also cheaper because they're formulaic.
"Arjun Patiala" is an attempt at subverting Bollywood's formulaic films.
"It's formulaic and only focuses on the obvious," he says.
They have a circus and it's formulaic in a way.
They were exactly like the formulaic math textbooks of school.
The Petipa choreography alternates between formulaic sequences and inventive wit.
In practice, as Poland's case shows, the process is not formulaic.
It's true that a franchise can make a show seem formulaic.
Mr Xi stuck to a formulaic style, repeating oft-used phraseology.
When saving the world is this formulaic and generic, who cares?
I think throughout the night, she was tired, she was formulaic.
It's a formulaic treatment that seems intent on not making waves.
Q. Is the formulaic nature of Baroque music also its limit?
The parameters she uses to launch the drawings never become formulaic.
Romance Romance is both loved and derided for its formulaic nature.
Even though the menu is formulaic, Mr. Dameron tries to innovate.
But STAY DANGEROUS deviates from the formulaic way he'd approached albums.
Later, she would give that career to the heroine of Lady Oracle and the hero of The Blind Assassin, both of whom joyfully plow through formulaic plot after formulaic plot and support themselves comfortably in the process.
Cooking, even the most formulaic cooking, takes skill and practice and education.
As such, it's touching in a pleasingly formulaic, pass-the-torch way.
Bourne is a standard action movie with normal villains and formulaic plot
It goes without saying that compatibility is only formulaic to a point.
The formulaic nature of the show and its tics became glaringly obvious.
His approach has grown increasingly formulaic, amounting to mildly sexed-up traditionalism.
It's hard to care when a movie is this formulaic and moronic.
When their music is too formulaic and polished, it's not good enough.
Write with an original, confident voice and avoid formulaic language and structure.
"A Bronx Tale" is certainly not without its formulaic or sentimental aspects.
There is nothing formulaic about her use of color, line or shape.
For the past two decades at least, perhaps the only thing more consistent than the presence of bright, polished formulaic songcraft on mainstream country radio is criticism about the presence of bright, polished formulaic songcraft on mainstream country radio.
Judging by its box-office performance, the formulaic plot was a turn-off.
What AI can do is churn out formulaic texts by the library load.
Yet though "Bodyguard" is far-fetched and formulaic, it is also well-executed.
" Trump's former rival praised his "strong" debate performance, calling Clinton "tired" and "formulaic.
Milestone comics made me suddenly aware that other comic books could be formulaic.
I figured, why am I paying so much for something that's so formulaic?
It's so formulaic; get a blowjob, fuck the woman then do anal usually.
The data breach excuse generator shows how formulaic and useless many responses are.
Some already make wonderful wines, but too many fall prey to formulaic production.
And thus, for 20 seasons, every episode declared its formulaic intentions up front.
It's uber-formulaic and gets grating after maybe the second or third listen.
She could have played it safe -- and turned in a formulaic popcorn muncher.
Tasteful but formulaic, the movie glosses over less savory aspects of Nash's life.
"The ads have become so familiar, so formulaic and so predictable," Jordan said.
Despite the stellar performances, many critics said the biopic felt a bit formulaic.
Nonetheless, they sometimes become a little formulaic after the middle of the album.
Demo and pitch days foster a formulaic approach that often works against the presenter.
The series finale was sweet, tying up everything with a formulaic sitcom-style ending.
Even once you've figured out the pattern, though, Groff's stories are far from formulaic.
An exhibition that questions whether art can be based on formulas without becoming formulaic.
In the stagecraft of Chinese politics, formulaic expressions like "core" are tokens of power.
Yet, no matter how formulaic the Swift responses are, the internet must be fed.
As a formulaic romp, The Last Days of New Paris is fun and smart.
Economic papers are far too formulaic; models should be a means, not an end.
They're laughing because they've been trained to expect comedic beats from this formulaic show.
As in the rest of the book, however, the effect is formulaic and sentimental.
Abstract futuristic constructs are peppered throughout the environment, at odds with the formulaic architecture.
Poorly farmed and overcropped grapes, subjected to formulaic winemaking, result in simple, generic wines.
"New Americana" is the most grating and formulaic song on Halsey's otherwise compelling debut.
"After 50 years, half a century, it's all feeling a little formulaic," he added.
TikTok is dominated by videos with a very rigid, formulaic structure: a song, a dance.
We are already expected to slog through this kind of formulaic jargon in our inboxes.
Sex usually sells, but apparently not so much in the world of formulaic perfume ads.
They (critics) call it "formulaic"; that trashy word insinuating something is predictable, tedious, and unoriginal.
But it also meant making it more formulaic in order to free it from prejudice.
But she doesn't stray too far from her technique, she's very formulaic with her routine.
In Mr Clavin's formulaic prose, men "wet their whistles" and prospectors are "busy as beavers".
As always, my point here is not to give formulaic, one-size-fits-all advice.
However, LipNet was only tested on specially-recorded footage that used volunteers speaking formulaic sentences.
But here's the thing: I can't stop watching this stupid, clichéd, formulaic, sexist-ass show.
Many teachers are overwhelmed by poor-quality data-collection, unnecessary marking and formulaic lesson planning.
He can continue to pass off formulaic jokes as brave, and any backlash as oversensitivity.
And he single-handedly turns the formulaic biopic Bohemian Rhapsody into a riveting character piece.
When you're having sex in a regular bedroom setting, sex feels so premeditated and formulaic.
Also, the "Polka Dots" sculptures sometimes seem formulaic, which is to say, like commercial product.
Standardized as they are, the viewer notices a formulaic pattern of posing for women's apparel.
But Ms. Masciotti's brand of sentimentality has a rough honesty that often transforms the formulaic.
Over the years, I had come to believe that too many were generic and formulaic.
Still, the movie falls into "a banal, formulaic pastiche," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
" This is formulaic writing, sprinkled with male sweat: "He had never wanted a woman more.
These are just examples of many different conceptual and formulaic breakthroughs that had to be made.
In two years, the number of those formulaic cozy romances has soared on some TV outlets.
Early reviews of the film were tepid, describing it as formulaic, on-the-nose Oscar bait.
The Williams do have one unique twist to the otherwise formulaic but entertaining show format, however.
The practice tends to be formulaic and focused on established artists that operate within state institutions.
Both business and sports stories are particularly easy for software to parse because they're very formulaic.
More and more people are catching onto the mind-numbingly formulaic magic of A Christmas Prince.
Erez Cohen has an almost formulaic Silicon Valley pedigree—UC Berkeley undergrad, PhD dropout, startup founder.
Morgan Stanley's spokesman said the company today uses a formulaic, gender-blind process for distributing accounts.
All this is delivered in a formulaic prose that is generally as compelling as a textbook.
"It's like a big bet," she says, explaining that formulaic approaches don't necessarily work these days.
It is not a formulaic approach where there is a documented, fixed amount for every forehead.
Then consider how formulaic every UFC pre-fight package has been for the last few years.
"We don't share those kind of details," he says, as we temporarily occupy more formulaic ground.
"I'm just a positive person," Brady went on to say in what became his formulaic response.
At moments, admittedly, the immediate flare-ups of temperament in the succession of arias become formulaic.
It can easily come across as glib: the contour formulaic, the flourishes more calculated than graceful.
But what happens when the formulaic storytelling and uninspired "plot twists" finally exhaust his loyal base?
The movie was so flat and formulaic, it sent me into a kind of waking coma.
I can tell with the formulaic questions who's really listening and paying attention and who's not.
The Holiday Calendar is the kind of aggressively formulaic movie that Hallmark built its brand on.
All the founders I know are trying to raise a formulaic $8m Series A on $40m pre.
And although achieving popularity may seem formulaic, doing so relies as much on luck as on calculation.
But the best formulaic movies offer something beyond the sheer comfort of a familiar story well told.
But it's hard not to see just another formulaic, Hangover-style frat comedy vying for cheap laughs.
"  "Horror, westerns, war films, and sports movies don't get described as formulaic, but romcoms and musicals are.
How nice of them… And the over-branding, and formulaic appearance of the hall didn't help either.
But none of his films, all fairly formulaic he says now, ever came close to being greenlighted.
And with formulaic language stripped away, it is the characters and their interactions that take center stage.
And only a wise writer can resist the temptation to deliver a formulaic epiphany at book's end.
It also means some of what's offered is starting to feel a bit formulaic and same-y.
In this formulaic "cop who won't play by the book" setup, the book doesn't stand a chance.
But before "Buffy," vampires, zombies and other assorted demons were mostly the stuff of formulaic horror movies.
In this formulaic 'cop who won't play by the book' setup, the book doesn't stand a chance.
But the biggest and most common criticism of the film is that it's too safe and formulaic.
His quick, formulaic debunks appeared high on the first page of Google search results and in Google News.
The shows are, by design, formulaic and uphold firmly traditional values — heterosexual marriage, love, ceremony, and all that.
What you're being sold in mainstream pop music is formulaic and detached from the experience of the artist.
First, I never thought startups were formulaic, that you say these three things and then you get funded.
She reads a how-to-write-a-recovery-memoir guide and (surprise, surprise) finds it clichéd and formulaic.
Viewers are tweeting about how predictable Jack dying in this way would be, calling it formulaic and obvious.
There are lots of elements of the show that could appear to be quite formulaic on first glance.
Con: They tend to reinforce traditional gender roles and rely on men for their formulaic fairy tale endings.
"Eyewitness" has more than its share of the formulaic elements of rural crime drama and family soap opera.
What this show has going for it is that, while he could have, he has not become formulaic.
In her new translation of the "Odyssey," Emily Wilson allows herself some creative freedom with Homer's formulaic phrases.
Writing songs for other people, "Most of the time they're looking for a formulaic feeling," Mr. Williams said.
The world may feel upside down, but the latest Pokémon game is as relaxing and formulaic as ever.
Here's how these three movies are trying to attract viewers to slightly familiar characters without feeling too formulaic.
The problem is this skepticism often morphs into a formulaic approach that can itself become untethered from reality.
But "Hawaii Five-0" is resolutely formulaic, and writers and producers get into comfort zones that resist change.
It was the watershed moment for five young men fighting for individuality buried within the industry's formulaic standards.
But there's also a consensus here that it's not quite as formulaic as that, which is positively reassuring.
Like, it feels a little formulaic and so that's a lot ... some of these new concepts feel, not just Axios, but a lot of others, feel a little formulaic and I think people, like you said, when something is a good idea, like newsletters, it just is a good idea.
Raúl Esparza faces the realities of the restaurant business in Theresa Rebeck's energetic but formulaic art-versus-commerce comedy.
" For his part, Andy Seth, founding partner of LotusGroup Advisors, said that "advisors can be formulaic about building trust.
The Scopitones were formulaic, sometimes using the same random scenery and "dancers" without regard to the songs they accompanied.
Kwame: We're at a point in the Marvel canon where we have to recognize how formulaic things have gotten.
Why CW had to go all the way to Belgium to come up with something this formulaic is unclear.
The style is formulaic by design: an atrocity is followed by an investigation, a left turn, a revelation, fin .
It makes no attempt to stray from its genre, and though it's utterly formulaic, damn it, the formula works.
The allegedly infringing greeting cards—apparently manufactured under Papyrus's "Recycled Greetings" brand—are invariably formulaic and deeply, deeply unfunny.
This formulaic repetition of revolutionary rhetoric — a bit wearisome even to this sympathetic reader — has, admittedly, an organic function.
This flexible, rather formulaic way of cooking lends itself well to very lazy, casual preparation, especially for large groups.
Though they presented it with unaffected grace, they could not stop the sequences of steps from looking entirely formulaic.
"For larger firms focusing on late-stage investment strategies, the environment is typically more structured and formulaic," Cheong said.
Hancock is wasted here, as are the meaty dramatic threads that Elizabeth O'Halloran's formulaic screenplay never bothers to pull.
The popular history Bagehot celebrates, especially on television, is often forced by the medium to be formulaic and sensational.
It's just made it more formulaic, like soft drinks and other beverages, by streamlining production for consistency and stability.
Why you should watch: Though at times it's a tad formulaic, "Rocketman" has several shining moments of movie magic.
"It's amazing to me how formulaic the show can be, and yet you never get bored," said Findlay-Shirras.
And BHP criticized the stock buyback proposal as "a formulaic approach" that ignored the fundamentals of the mining business.
So with designs so formulaic and industry events similarly uninspiring, why are people still so obsessed with new kits?
And though it gets a little more limpid once Sandler and Aniston start sharing the screen, it's still formulaic.
Haack and Nelson were intent on divorcing children's music and entertainment from the formulaic folk tradition that dominated the industry.
Neither are people who love formulaic dramas and can tolerate trailers that confirm every single story beat in a film.
But Google isn't just another company, and its competition, Apple's iPad, isn't just another formulaic slab of transistors and pixels.
The problem with Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the third game in the reboot trilogy, isn't just that it's formulaic.
Creative choices were entirely driven by ratings and advertising, resulting in lowest-common-denominator shows that were popular but formulaic.
Your own drawing becomes very predictable and formulaic, so it's nice to have something that has a bit of chance.
Here are some of the dynamics to watch: Mr. Sanders can be somewhat formulaic in debates and on the stump.
They know what to expect from these books, many of which are formulaic, but many display really good writing, too.
In the movie, which our critic A.O. Scott calls fun but formulaic, a young Spock confronts his future self's death.
I think there are two differences here—one is that musically, it's utterly formulaic [compared to earlier modern indie tracks].
You're dealing with a much more formulaic set of right and wrong and good and bad and success and failure.
Take away that connection and you're left with a formulaic slasher movie that no amount of clever stylization can cover.
This can be interpreted as music becoming increasingly formulaic in terms of instrumentation once commercial or mainstream success sets in.
It was also obvious that almost half the wines in our tasting — the ones we rejected — suffered from formulaic winemaking.
These films varied in quality — some were admittedly entertaining — but they were formulaic when it came to plotting and casting.
The cold and formulaic response by President Ashraf Ghani and his cheerleaders is bound to feed more anger and disaffection.
Here, government career staff conduct a technical and formulaic analysis into whether the jet maker received illegal subsidies from Quebec.
He on Thursday released an ad continuing his mock bid for the vice presidency, poking fun at formulaic campaign spots.
Scott Farrell, an expert in crisis management and the president of Golin Corporate Communications, said there was no formulaic response.
Even beyond the diminishing returns, Stone says he became disillusioned with how much of YouTube had become clickbaity and formulaic.
More remarkable to my mind is that she does not seem to repeat herself or become formulaic: everything feels discovered.
"One thing that you hope for the vitality of movie-going business is that we don't get too formulaic," Juenger said.
If the purpose of autobiography is to uniquely render a unique life, then slave narratives often feel formulaic, the narrators indistinct.
For this reason it feels different from some of the other more formulaic projects currently making up the true crime zeitgeist.
So-called prestige TV, even when it's good or great, is often just as formulaic as any given CBS crime procedural.
The format was fresh enough not to feel formulaic, the contestants naive enough to not know how to play the game.
It's too complex to be a fun, formulaic techno-thriller, but not smart enough to be an interesting commentary on technology.
Satirical tweets, which have racked up hundreds of likes, imply that Kaur's work is formulaic, shallow, and lacks true poetic talent.
It was formulaic, but it was magic, and arguably the greatest working of the crowd by any tag team in history.
"I think that one of the main issues with CRA is that it has become formulaic over the years," Quarles said.
In many states, projects that merely rehabilitate existing infrastructure or even actually help the environment are slowed by often formulaic reports.
Cooking abroad, he felt, was a bulwark against the formulaic path his career would have taken had he remained in France.
The dominant studio in Hong Kong at the time was Shaw Brothers, which produced dozens of formulaic action films per year.
Duran masterfully keeps a lot of balls in the air in this and the other paintings, never becoming formulaic or reductive.
Despite the genre's formulaic nature, these variables contain massive potential for innovation––one reason why they've proved to be so enduring.
But his shows also stay solidly within their genre boundaries, and their execution can be formulaic to the point of drab.
Hanson's plotting is ragged and formulaic, but his storytelling voice is off the charts: blunt, morbid, morally indignant and furiously funny.
And without that sense of ineffable individuality, the satire — of the Sixties-style search for enlightenment and eternal youth — feels formulaic.
The Times, in its review when the show opened, said that it was "half-formulaic," but an "undeniably crowd-pleasing musical."
At first glance — especially at the rather formulaic faces — it seems an unimportant little thing, but close looking reveals its charms.
Academics spend their lives producing articles that nobody reads and BBC producers churn out formulaic products aimed at the imaginary median viewer.
Mrs May is mind-bogglingly inarticulate for someone who has been in politics all her life—all formulaic phrases and woolly banalities.
Bella's passing is such a shame, because the character is just the dose freshness this charmed but formulaic buddy comedy needs throughout.
"Even if you have an amazing GMAT score, I'm sure admissions can tell when someone puts together a formulaic application," he said.
But Big Ears isn't anything goes, and it doesn't suffer from the formulaic stasis of so many music festivals in this country.
Students filled out worksheets, answered factual questions, constructed formulaic paragraphs, followed algorithms and conducted "experiments" for which the results were already known.
She has always defended the fantastic, by which she means not formulaic fantasy or "McMagic" but the imagination as a subversive force.
If "Dear Evan Hansen" had been performed without an intermission, the holes in the formulaic second half might have been less obvious.
Networks are fighting for greater audience shares based on formulaic coverage — offering echo-chamber analysis to fit the ideological preferences of viewers.
Lois Lane was quite competent but her quests to uncover big stories for the Daily Planet always landed her in formulaic peril.
Compared to his works, Roy Lichtenstein's and Andy Warhol's paintings are mostly very static, Frank Stella's formulaic, and Peter Saul's oddly gawky.
The case-of-the-week structure may have been formulaic, but it gave TV characters a constant replenishment of problems that needed solving.
And yet, when the movie hit theaters, it was dismissed by critics as formulaic, toothless — adolescent, in the worst sense of the word.
It also happens to be very structured and formulaic, which lends itself well to a chabot whose primary "intelligence" is a decision tree.
Young Black men were still getting killed, but the formulaic kidnapping, strangling, and stabbing of teenagers in quick succession came to a halt.
Mainstream brands have revved up the multicultural millennial targeting in recent campaigns, crafting perfectly formulaic multicultural casts (see: Pepsi's absurd Kendall Jenner ad).
That journey is rather formulaic, which is plenty satisfying when coupled with the free spirit the playwright has found in her title setting.
We didn't all love the movie: Anthony, in particular, found some of the jokes and the character arcs to be a little formulaic.
He's the kind of bold, distinctive filmmaker who could really put his stamp on the superhero movie — a genre that feels increasingly formulaic.
You could call this season a bit more formulaic, as many critics have, but that really wouldn't the right way to describe it.
And because of all the similarities, Doctor Strange is formulaic — but its recognizable story arc makes it easy to digest for Strange newcomers.
"To build a successful business, traditional models say you focus on profits and growth via formulaic approaches to marketing and advertising," she says.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with any of these erotic ingredients, per se, but it's formulaic and not particularly representational of most queer sex.
It infuses a too-familiar story with so much heart that you surrender to its charm and forgive it for being unabashedly formulaic.
The show is otherwise so perfectly formulaic and relaxing that it makes having to navigate these potential emotional land minds absolutely worth it.
But it seems to be at odds with the formulaic nature of mainstream games, not to mention the darker side of gaming culture.
Their formulaic approach—photographed at the same distance from above the waist gazing directly into the lens—emphasize the ambiguity of their identity.
Because we're stuck with these bland nonentities as our main characters for the whole season, Class quickly starts to feel repetitive and formulaic.
This formulaic offering from the author of "Dinner With Friends" chronicles the havoc wrought when a black sheep returns to the family fold.
These stories, stylistically simple and formulaic in plot, say a lot about the myths that a culture values and lives by, he contended.
Mostly to try to jump-start a movie that, formulaic step by step, needs to confirm that a single woman can be happy.
I say that not because I'm a film snob (though of course I am); it's that most movies and television are so formulaic.
But the movie is almost relentlessly predictable and formulaic — a story of one man's refusal to conform that dutifully hits all its marks.
Our critic Stephen Holden writes that in the end, it "becomes a banal, formulaic pastiche of dozens of other like-minded space operas."
Here, she stars in a more formulaic film, which borrows notes from both teen rom-coms and beauty pageant movies like Miss Congeniality.
In a courtroom scene, one lawyer accuses former adman Magritte of selling out, producing formulaic work in exchange for consistent money and fame.
It's just a formulaic story of teens getting picked off one by one, in steadily showier displays of gore, and for no real reason.
The thing is, as entertaining as they can be, and as crucial they are in building anticipation, they can also be a little formulaic.
Most summer movie seasons are built on formulaic productions, but this one felt worse somehow — as if the old formulas suddenly no longer worked.
" Franchise film-making, Hollywood's current raison d'être, is by definition formulaic: "for young women in particular, there are not a lot of terrific parts.
What they bring are kitschy spectacles, melodramas told through broad acting and ballet conflated with acrobatics, all underlined by formulaic music, Chinese and Western.
In games, you need designers realizing players are likely to fall into boring, formulaic habits, and build methods of pushing them in different direction.
After the stumble, Rubio was even followed on the campaign trail by protesters dressed in robot costumes, a sarcastic wink at Rubio's formulaic delivery.
Having moved on from the Faces, the problem with the New Capris, Capris, Free Capris is that they come across as formulaic, even tepid.
And the film's set pattern, with spoken introductions followed by passages in which music and image paired up in delicate counterpoint, could feel formulaic.
Often in these older works, math is allegorical rather than formulaic, its systems broadly used to convey the order and balance of the world.
The structure of each segment is formulaic in the best way, a comforting sameness that ensures you will receive a standard dose of information.
Invincible's seemingly formulaic setup is shattered in the second issue as certain truths come to light, and the pieces never stop falling after that.
Full marks from Adorno et al so far, for unpicking an element of what can make pop formulaic, in order to create something different.
The DJ Mustard-handled production does away with the former's smoothness and instead goes for a formulaic pop sound that feels stale at best.
It's too self-serious to rejoice in the spectacle it means to portray, but too perfunctory and formulaic in its execution to be affecting.
Mr. Lanchbery died in 2003; it might be time for a new arrangement that makes Minkus's more formulaic numbers sound expressive, rather than trite.
It's a shame, because despite the formulaic turns, Gervais is trying something interesting — to interrogate the worldview that has become Bad Ricky's public schtick.
I felt bad that he lost so many precious brain cells of his own going through so many multiple formulaic pages of clichéd fantasy.
He wrote a formulaic approach to monetary policy, known as the "Taylor Rule," which suggests that the Fed should be raising rates more quickly.
Her rom-coms "You've Got Mail" and "Sleepless in Seattle" are formulaic films that pander, with none of the vicious wit her friends enjoyed.
It quickly tumbled out of the top 5, hinting at the way his industry playbook is being challenged by less formulaic streaming-era stardoms.
This sex was formulaic, had steps and positions and durations, all tried and perfected, like a martial arts kata or a well-debugged program.
But I wouldn't call Apple's strategy formulaic, since it often deviates and continues to bring new ideas and technology to its products and ecosystem.
The reason for this is that usually customers know what something will taste like since brunch options tend to be more formulaic, Keskin said.
He was desperate for cash after graduating from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and throwing together an easy, formulaic book seemed like the way forward.
But it turns out that all successful Chainsmokers songs have a pretty formulaic construction, and YouTuber John Fassold is letting everyone in on the secret.
Many horror films could be triggering to survivors of violence, abuse, and assault, and their formulaic plots and archetypes don't always leave room for nuance.
"What I think is different now is that more and more women aren't so interested in having a formulaic kind of bathroom," de Rege posits.
When pop culture and news media represented us at all, it was in ways that were at worst scornful and at best inaccurate and formulaic.
The self-taught coder realized how formulaic the appeals process is and decided to create a simple bot to help people through the entire ordeal.
Here the formulaic fun begins: Susan tracks down the now-ageing sages only to find that someone is killing them, and conspiring to destroy her.
Though the increasingly formulaic films were successful, they'd prove to be Day's undoing and make her passé when the counterculture supplanted the "Mad Men" era.
It's no secret that the public eats up collabs between DJs and well-known pop stars, to the point that it's now a formulaic trope.
Its formulaic template of a mid-tempo beat, bouncy melody and jumping-into-the-air-in-slow-motion power chorus is soaked in blind optimism.
The amorous relationship between Ricky and one of the teachers, the genial Luce (a buoyant Rey Lucas), also injects a formulaic note into the proceedings.
"It's been stretched to encompass just about everything formulaic, with the result that a lot of dumb ideas are being called smart beta," he said.
And while their titles may seem formulaic at this point, their plots and prose often wreak havoc on the tired trope of girls in peril.
But if Mr. Trump injected drama and even spontaneity back into the formulaic gathering, he also tested the limits of improvisation over the last week.
But Sabbath put out 13 in 2013—an era in which rock has mostly been swept under the rug by formulaic, pre-fabricated pop garbage.
Famous for a formulaic approach to monetary policy, including the so-called Taylor Rule, he is seen as likely to tighten monetary policy more quickly.
And, in spite of the music's more formulaic features, its greatest stars have managed to shape striking personas and produce songs of real expressive power.
Everything about Diane's progress within the firm feels fresh and vital; nearly everything about the Rendell family and its Ponzi scheme feels tired and formulaic.
It is also true that the plots were formulaic, and that the authors, while concerned with their characters' moral development, weren't much for psychological complexity.
But when they became affordable for the masses, commercial interests drove out much studio drama in favor of formulaic comedies, game shows and adventure series.
It's a refreshing change, even if the depictions of the marginalization and patriarchal attitudes that drive the Suleimans are pretty formulaic in their own right.
For every "Dreams From My Father," Barack Obama's honest, literary portrayal of his biracial upbringing, there were a dozen cautious, formulaic vanity projects by politicians.
It is a notable TV milestone for such a physically intense, tightly serialized narrative; typically, it is formulaic sitcoms and procedurals that achieve such longevity.
Refreshingly, sex is never a trivial matter on "Transparent," and although there's plenty of nudity—and some cathartic spanking—it's never filmed for formulaic kicks.
It was reasonably successful at the box office, but it's also exactly the kind of formulaic, schmaltzy buddy comedy that flies right past awards season.
Such special-occasion combinations are a standard feature of Fall for Dance, and putting Mr. Abraham and Ms. Copeland together could be seen as formulaic.
It pulls the rug out from what could have been a formulaic, almost procedural show, keeping us tense and guessing right until the final moments.
GG tells me that by the time she was working on I'm Not Here, she felt like her shock-like denouements were getting too formulaic.
Constantly testing the limits of both her abilities and imagination, she manages to create paintings that are simultaneously contemplative and riveting and yet avoid becoming formulaic.
Riyo and the down-and-out (albeit perpetually alluring)  Yoshio (Toshirô Maifune); a simple, almost formulaic love story that acts as a much larger cultural critique.
Sometimes it seems wrong to speak of some kind of lost originality or authenticity, as if life before Facebook were wholly innocent, non-formulaic, pure — tasteful.
Outside of the core story missions, which are typically a nice blend of stealth, combat, puzzles, and bosses, the rest of the experience is very formulaic.
The process is far from formulaic; importantly, it takes account of additional factors like whether treatment outcomes reduce disparities across patient groups or facilitates greater productivity.
Young pop fans had seemingly grown tired of manufactured bands with slick dance routines, formulaic songs and clinical sound bites—it had become cheesy and outdated.
Now there is room in the charts for a more traditional grime sound, unsullied by formulaic pop tropes, would we see a change in Devlin's sound?
"He doesn't stick to any talking points, and to someone like Theresa May, who is formulaic, she can't deal with it," the former staffer told me.
Now, Mr. Bartlow said he thinks the artist refuses to acknowledge the painting because it shows he has been using similar formulaic compositions for four decades.
But they would do more for black America than any amount of formulaic dialogues, or exploring the subtle contours of whites' inner feelings about black people.
Yet "The Carmichael Show" consistently feels surprising, not formulaic, partly because of the talent assembled, partly because of Mr. Carmichael's comic philosophy of prodding his audience.
He walked slowly, took his place behind the podium, gave a terse, formulaic speech, and pointed at a Fox News reporter to ask the first question.
I'm a big fan of horror movies, and they're often really formulaic; so for me, a horror movie is all about the environment and the background.
Clawing its way out of the embers of their previous albums—all very good, if slightly formulaic, examples of doom metal—their debut on RVNG Intl.
"The downside of any formulaic pricing rule, whether the president's or Senator Harris's, is that this is not a one-time pricing game," he told Vox.
Witness, for example, Google's Duplex voice AI, heavily trained to perform very specific and pretty formulaic tasks — such as booking a hair appointment or a restaurant.
They also carry another cargo, particular to the series: guilt, recrimination and depression, built up through eight episodes of stylish but tedious and formulaic family drama.
Presented side by side by Mr. Botstein, the formulaic nature of their exotic gestures came through: spicy augmented intervals, shimmying triplets and downward tumbling, slippery scales.
There is nothing formulaic about her approach, which distinguishes her work from many other contemporary abstract painters as well as those working with pattern and decoration.
Ms. Pénicaud tends to stick to formulaic speech when discussing her plans, an attempt to stay on point with Mr. Macron and Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.
Less lusty than the Smiths song of the same title, the sweet-natured drama "Handsome Devil" studies formulaic coming-of-age movies a little too closely.
He gathered his family and friends around him and refused to commit to a single figurative style or to use photographic images in a formulaic way.
Pop music has always been, and continues to be, a genre that speaks deeply to me I love its deceptive simplicity—and its bubblegum formulaic construction.
"We liked the murder mystery, because it's a serious genre, and formulaic, so the audience knows what it is before we subvert it," Mr. Lewis said.
For two-thirds of the way, "Wolves" is a decent high school sports movie thanks to actors who are really committed to its somewhat formulaic characters.
But no civil rights activist in, say, 1960, had any illusion that change required that the Kennedys or Lyndon Johnson "felt" anything beyond a certain formulaic point.
Meetings like these are a common, usually formulaic, part of my job—except in this one, the conversation drifted to the tech industry's year of bad headlines.
For a businessman who knows the power of branding, the POTUS has showed a surprisingly inability to craft a presidential image that isn't awkward, impersonal, and formulaic.
For a businessman who knows the power of branding, the POTUS has showed a surprisingly inability to craft a presidential image that isn't awkward, impersonal, and formulaic.
In her poem "Annunciation," Denise Levertov encourages the viewer of pictorial versions of this momentous event as formulaic as Calvaert's to look more deeply into the narrative.
If Zambra's book parodically takes on the formulaic structures of pedantic test-makers, Matías Celedón's La filial (Alquimia Ediciones, 2012) springs forth from a rigorous mechanical limitation.
"I'm of a certain age where you're not going to just give me some formulaic part because you know I'm not going to take it," she said.
Although marred by pacing issues & some shoddy CG, the film still has enough creepy set-pieces & solid performances to make for an effective albeit formulaic conclusion. pic.twitter.
"There are a lot of surf brands, and that industry can seem formulaic," says Christian Boalt, who along with his wife, Lisa, runs the year-old brand.
Nostalgia gives way to melodrama, and dramatic truth to soapy histrionics, and "Blue Jay" falters on a formulaic revelation about mistakes made and lessons learned too late.
What's particularly funny about this is that by releasing all of these different-but-ultimately-the-same versions of "Perfect," its formulaic and bland nature is exposed.
"For each of those body parts, I then made GIFs of myself attempting to follow those instructions, looking at this absurdly formulaic idea of beauty," she says.
I have the most fun with this medium because you have to problem solve as you go; it's not formulaic by any means, at least for me.
Still, though, I felt the movie was formulaic, predictable, and boring; it was something I had both never seen before and somehow also seen dozens of times.
Rapunzel won't be alone in letting down her hair: Nothing is staid or formulaic during these free concert performances from the Manhattan School of Music's outreach program.
Perhaps that's our only real criticism — that the stories seem so carefully chosen to emphasize uplift over anger that they can start to feel a bit formulaic.
In a field that has become formulaic, Clementina Richardson, the founder of Envious Lashes in New York, suggests looking for a stylist who will customize your look.
A class of on-the-rise rappers, particularly on SoundCloud, built an entire aesthetic on fragmentation—piecing together dark, ambient sounds, and decamping from formulaic genre frameworks.
Too formulaic for its own good, it's as fundamentally different from the company's usual product as red and green M&Ms are from the year-round kind.
Bacon remained formulaic and unsparing to the bitter end, his compact, contorted figures hemmed inside lushly painted monochromatic fields — reds, oranges, pinks — circumscribed by recurrent geometric designs.
Virtually time-traveling with a German rapper through a lakeside murder scene is much more engaging than watching the usual, formulaic videos of bands playing their instruments.
This past October, the YouTuber Jacksfilms made a video called, "I'm an Apology Video for Halloween," in which he pointed out just how formulaic these videos can be.
Mr. Bernanke told me last year that trade imbalances are a problem that can't be dealt with through formulaic rules and are instead a matter for international diplomacy.
Most recent Zelda adventures have become formulaic, abiding by a rigid and proven structure that offers nostalgia and familiarity, but little room for revelations, either big or small.
But suffice it to say that, once I was in law school, I quickly found out that I was not interested in those more formulaic areas of law.
If the critics see Jaffy and Griffin's Twitter personas as formulaic, their fans see the two as offering a stable, concentrated place to find out what's going on.
THERE'S NO FORMULAIC ANSWER, IT'S A MATTER OF TRUST THAT NEEDS TO BE BUILT BETWEEN US AND THE MANAGEMENT TEAM AND US AND THE OTHER INDEPENDENT BOARD MEMBERS.
It's a revamp of antihero tropes so bland and formulaic that in one episode, I realized the series was teasing two possible "dangerous" outcomes that were both clichés.
" The A.V. Club's review lamented, "With its formulaic story and hackneyed dialogue, all there is to do in between moments of self-aware outrageousness is admire the decor.
With this massive proliferation of formulaic tracks—most of which follow a simple template, without any intensive editing—nightcore has, not surprisingly, evolved into something of a joke.
These battles between tech companies and local governments have become formulaic: Municipality makes gutsy move, draws national attention for sticking up to industry giant, company refuses to compromise.
If you ever watched Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball Z, then you know that anime often use a formulaic plot structure in which every episode raises the stakes.
The photos are unremarkable — a coalescence of uncomfortableness — and the takeaway is too obvious to be profound: that voters and candidates alike articulate their politics in formulaic ways.
His distinctive, bombastic, Bruce Springsteen-influenced style has not avoided critique for sometimes feeling formulaic, or for supposedly drowning out the individuality of the artists he works with.
The Times article suggested that most mission statements aren't "worth the paper they were written on"—so insubstantial and formulaic that they may as well be computer-generated.
But it also feels vaguely formulaic, as if assembled from a kit to create, well, the kind of delicate-hued, funny-sad plays that Ms. Baker specializes in.
At its worst, these movies could be painfully formulaic, corny, retrograde about gender and so unrealistic about love that they were often accused of poisoning real-life romance.
But when formulaic statements are issued by committees of liberal professors, or "the educated elite" — the same voices who always lecture on race — the words have limited impact.
The genre is thriving on streaming services because of the minimal buy-in from subscribers — viewers looking for often formulaic satisfaction without having to leave their living rooms.
But I think that's part of the dilemma about making a new BioShock game is that if you stick to that it will end up feeling very formulaic.
It's a star-making performance for Jordan, and Coogler's visual style in Creed — an homage to the original Rocky movies — elevated what is ultimately formulaic to something greater.
Others are too formulaic—the TED recipe for presenting ideas has become so well understood in our culture that in 2012, The New Yorker wrote an article about it.
He fought to protect his brand in an industry known for its formulaic approach by maintaining a tight grip on his music -- keeping it off YouTube and streaming services.
The formulaic workings of a long-winded math equation intercepts with the gilded presentations of classical painting, but one thing appears remiss—there are no paintings in these artworks.
Aquaman's as formulaic, excessively thrashy, and mommy-obsessed as any other entry in the DCEU, but its visual imagination is genuinely exciting and transportive, and dare I say, fun.
A low-brow comedy ingénue who skyrocketed to blockbuster success with a string of formulaic family comedies, Sandler's brand eventually turned self-cannibalistic, tedious, and infuriating—yet, remained profitable.
For shows that aren't formulaic procedurals like the "NCIS" clan or a nighttime soap like "Scandal," does the departure of "The Good Wife" herald an end of an era?
These stories, set primarily in New York, are among the weakest in the collection—or maybe it's that by the time one gets to them the pattern appears formulaic.
This time, however, he didn't experience the formulaic approach to cooking preached by textbooks in his home country, but rather the classic French techniques and finesse pioneered by Escoffier.
Pop is, for better or worse, formulaic: there are choruses, there are bridges and key changes, all ready to be slotted seamlessly together like pieces of a glamorous jigsaw.
Eighteenth-century British painting can be tediously formulaic, but Wright of Derby was unusual in combining formidable technical skill with a fascination in the Enlightenment's spirit of scientific inquiry.
That premise should be straight-forward enough to lead to enjoyable if formulaic shenanigans, and yet, every single creative choice for each character is shockingly off-putting or bizarre.
The formulaic way that ISIS disseminated propaganda -- using hashtags in different languages, coded speech, watermarked videos and iconography -- also allowed review teams to easily create hash copies for blacklist.
But they are more than formulaic crime stories — each delves into the deceptions baked into our traditional roles as men and women and the harrowing dynamics of marriages gone sour.
In "Pagliacci," Mr. Alagna initially fell back on some formulaic phrasing and a certain grandstanding delivery that felt especially old-fashioned after the flickering, natural heat of Mr. Lee's singing.
But when a look is so formulaic, it can feel stale real quick — especially if you look through your pictures and realize you're wearing the same thing in every #TBT.
To be clear: There are many good, solid, evidence-based reasons to dismiss Step Up. The plot is so formulaic it could have been written by a TI-86 calculator.
The first half of the series is relatively formulaic: Shinji doesn't want to pilot the big robot because he doesn't want to get hurt in a fight against an Angel.
At least "Alice Through the Looking Glass" isn't saddled with formulaic Disney songs, although as its perspective grows more cosmic, Danny Elfman's score settles into a mood of overawed grandiosity.
It integrates cleanly with a little button at the top of your inbox that lets you dive right into the analytics on your recent email blasts of formulaic friendly greetings.
Stories that start with since the dawn of time, scientists have been concerned with or when it comes to [this issue], there's always [this problem] feel so stilted and formulaic.
But they are more than formulaic crime stories - each delves into the deceptions baked into our traditional roles as men and women and the harrowing dynamics of marriages gone sour.
Though the fights are formulaic and the crowd scenes trite, Juliet is a role with heart-catching variety that has released the dramatic potential of the greatest dance actresses. 5.
The themes and plot twists differ each time, but this is a formulaic drama that reveals Congress's bipartisan failure to perform its most basic task: to fund the federal government.
The slow moving drone cameras, despite their sophistication, ultimately come off as stuffy, clichéd, and plodding, an attempt at projecting gravitas that comes to feel hollow and formulaic with repetition.
Most best-selling fiction is formulaic and repetitive, with an author figuring out one or two things that work and repeating them over and over in one or two genres.
Before I wrote The Moon and More, I went on Twitter, and people were saying, 'Sarah Dessen's books are so formulaic, they're all the same, she needs to do something different.
While such formulaic, done-to-death plots are hardly a challenge for viewers used to Bollywood love triangles, there are other damning factors that make the movie difficult to sit through.
GM sells more cars in China than in America, and this—along with years of watching news broadcasts that present world affairs as formulaic meetings between powerful men—has engendered fatalism.
But as anyone who's whiled away a weekend afternoon in front of a Law & Order marathon would tell you, even a formulaic show with a great franchise can be terrifically watchable.
I suppose this is the point where I should mention that in many ways, the three-act structure is a straitjacket that can make otherwise good movies feel predictable and formulaic.
The armature is formulaic melodrama: the stories of three female Irish friends who are, as they say, caught up in events, witnesses to history, swept away on the tide of change.
As humane as it is, "Please Like Me" has none of the bullying positivity of more formulaic "issue TV": it allows for the rough fact that not everything can be fixed.
But will demand for the fair's traditional "destination" strength of old master art and objects be set for an upgrade, too — particularly if collectors tire of today's increasingly formulaic contemporary market?
The formulaic nature of these videos is partly what makes them so cathartic, according to the study's lead author, Marie-Frédérique Bacqué, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Strasbourg.
As data-savvy teams increasingly keep emotion from their decision-making, turning instead to formulaic offers based on cold data, agents have found it harder to appeal to owners' personal drive.
Where Vassell has previously been a very formulaic grappler—takedown, mount, back and rear naked choke if they give it—this fight showed off some more interesting techniques from top position.
Open Book Apparently, the requirements to become president are: to be at least 35, a natural born citizen and the author of a formulaic book telling us why you deserve our vote.
And in the more lazily formulaic second act, in which the children confront their too-demanding parents for refusing to accept them as they are, you can taste glucose in the air.
Part of why I did the Twin Peaks series was to practice making caricatures of a bunch of different faces without just emphasizing the same features every time or getting too formulaic.
Similarly, "Bohemian Rhapsody", a biopic of Queen's lead singer, Freddie Mercury, has been denounced for being prudish about his hedonism and his bisexuality, and, for that matter, for being pedestrian and formulaic.
In other words, depending on whom you ask, he's either a welcome shot of energy for a formulaic trivia show or a threat to the reputation and legacy of an American institution.
I'm steeped in news of how the entertainment industry works, and I'm increasingly tired of pointless action blockbusters, and I lament the loss of the human amid computerized specters and formulaic screenplays.
"Martin Sorrell's remuneration is derived from the formulaic application of long-term co-investment scheme approved by an 83 percent vote in favour by shareholders in 2009," a WPP spokesman told Reuters.
As a result, the very schools that were originally intended to be a source of new ideas are — although still successful — now largely urban schools employing an unvarying, even formulaic, educational approach.
Boasting a creative pedigree that includes "A Beautiful Mind" director Ron Howard, the best one can say about this earnest, formulaic exercise is that in the world of historical TV, everything's relative.
It remains to be seen how well this same technique works for longer texts, but even longer documents are often quite formulaic, so the algorithm should still work quite well there, too.
That's probably how the show's creators, Jane Maggs and Adrienne Mitchell, envisioned Annie, but what ended up onscreen is a half-sketched, formulaic character that Ms. Paquin can only occasionally make convincing.
After that, the play makes a forward leap to Jane's thwarted adulthood and becomes a more formulaic piece about whether it's O.K. to indulge in suffering when you haven't actually suffered anything.
Again, chatbots are a natural fit in such a scenario; being scalable, they take the strain out of repeat and formulaic conversations — with the promise of a smooth pipeline of candidate conversions.
These are explored in slightly formulaic chapters: deft personal anecdotes followed by a cruise through the historical background, sometimes accompanied by an interview with a current artisan and including some usable recipes.
"It is disappointing that this flimsy B-movie isn't better, because once it sets up its formulaic plot, it could have been both naughty and wild," wrote Gary M. Kramer for Salon.
Anything so light and formulaic is going to be easier to export around the globe than a tightly packed subculture with its own local slang, arcane dress sense, and codes of etiquette.
This may result from the sense of interiority of many of the women, despite their near formulaic physical similarity (small jaw, delicate nose, wide brow), caused by their apparent focus on their activities.
For now, it dismissed Elliott's plan for buying back shares as "a formulaic approach without regard for the cyclical nature of the resources industry or the returns available from other uses of cash".
Even when executed well, superhero origin stories on the big screen have become depressingly formulaic — and with the exception of "Wonder Woman," the ones in the DC Extended Universe haven't been executed well.
Once this information is obtained, the next step is to write formulaic, generic, and reusable templated sentences with spots for specific information; this will express, in text, the various facts for each article.
So perhaps the question isn't whether we need female friendly sections, but rather why do mainstream porn websites and companies remain so formulaic and averse to prioritizing the pleasure of all parties involved?
This balance between the mimetic and the spontaneous is a key aspect of Murphy's approach, a balance he manages to fine-tune to the unique properties of each motif while avoiding formulaic repetition.
Trump's methodical destruction of the norms and courtesies that have defined and hemmed in past presidential campaigns has added an element of unpredictability to events, like debates, that are generally formulaic and subdued.
While Ferguson truly is magnificent this season, and was given plenty of material to work with, it's disappointing to see more of the same stereotypical, formulaic roles doled out to talented Black actresses.
Yet for all these formulaic talents, in his outlook and appeal Mr Cruz is an idiosyncratic product of the convulsions that followed the financial crisis and Barack Obama's election, and of his upbringing.
That might sound like nothing more than wishful thinking — a thin reed of formulaic faith — if the movie had not already supplied solid grounds for hope in the shape of the barbershop itself.
With the release of the disappointing movie adaptation of The Darkest Minds, it's evident that what that made YA dystopias incendiary — allegories about growing up, stories about badass protagonists — has now become formulaic.
Aside from that, though, there's not much to recommend this formulaic film, which stars Pierce Brosnan as Mike Regan, an executive who apparently missed all the memos about security in the internet age.
If it becomes a Met annex, an all-purpose special-exhibition space for solid but formulaic shows, replacing the one the museum relinquished in 2013 to expand its European galleries, that's not enough.
Unlike Subset's last game, FTL, which ended in an incredibly difficult but ultimately formulaic battle against a unique enemy mothership, Into the Breach concludes with back to back missions that are just... tough.
One partial, uncomfortable answer is that it offers the greatest concentration of expensive, ostentatiously bad TV — formulaic, bombastic, ingratiating shows that make you shake your head at the squandering of money and talent.
And in doing so it serves as a reminder of how formulaic superhero movies have become in both tone and story, and how much space remains for expansion and experimentation in the genre.
" He eventually decamped for Second City, where he was integral to some modernizing changes — no more stage, no more curtain, no more rigidly formulaic revues — and where he "actually started making some money.
Year: 1997, at the 39th Grammy AwardsWhat beat it: "Falling Into You" by Céline DionCéline Dion is a force, but in retrospect, her massively popular album "Falling Into You" is formulaic at best.
This feels so formulaic — as does the romance between Desmond and Dorothy — that I suspect it's a tactic to lull viewers into complacency, the better to throw the upcoming battle scenes into high relief.
Mark Riedl, an associate professor of AI at Georgia Tech with a specialism in computer narratives, told The Verge that he thought Google's Assistant would probably work "reasonably well," but only in formulaic situations.
Why they might not: Prestige-season biopics are risky business since they're so often formulaic uplift-machines that are designed to shove the audience's emotions through preordained motions of sadness, anger, and renewed hope.
There's already an over saturation in this game—THUMP has previously made no bones about the increasingly formulaic nature of festivals lineups and the fog of monotony that seems to hang over the market.
In essence, rather than adhering to a formulaic approach, our state's leaders listen to families and communities to design programs flexible enough to meet the needs of Hoosiers in every part of the state.
While these strategies ultimately gave Lindsay a disadvantage in viewership, what gives us all a disadvantage is the show's formulaic need for a self-branded contestant ready for fame and fortune beyond the franchise.
A paper called "Facts about Formulaic Value Investing" published this year in the CFA Institute's Financial Analysts Journal charged that quantitative methods of finding "value stocks" simply "identify companies with temporarily inflated accounting numbers."
But in a world saturated with formulaic biopics, it's refreshing to see someone try to do something new with the genre—even if it winds up being an exhilarating failed experiment in the end.
They are formulaic, completely driven by commercial calculation, largely written by committees under strict studio supervision (which is not to say that committees are incapable of writing great scripts — see the amazing Pixar oeuvre).
The rest of the first two episodes is devoted to the introduction of the ship and crew, familiar from decades of "Star Trek" series and films — less worshipful than usual, but no less formulaic.
Actors make lousy choices all the time and if "Like a Boss" makes money no one will care that it's formulaic, unfunny, choppy, insults women and seems to be missing much of its middle.
It's formulaic, but not a deal-breaker: Surprised by a hotel guest while she's in his room, Letty hides in the closet and overhears him discussing plans to carry out a murder for hire.
I think there's a very specific reason that romantic comedies need to be formulaic in order to be great — and I think it has everything to do with what romantic comedies are all about.
What Rexha brings us instead is the work of an artist who really wants to color outside the lines and break every known rule of formulaic success — and that's something pop music needs more of.
This inconsistency, combined with lackluster acting, a confused narrative, and formulaic plot beats, results in a movie that contributes nothing new to either the Blair Witch mythos or the vast landscape of found-footage horror.
And even a formulaic show with a so-so franchise (say, NCIS) is often more watchable than a series that has given little thought to the most basic levels of its construction (say, Netflix's Bloodline).
Also too formulaic and uninsurable… And on the way out the door, he [Bethea] says, 'I have this other one, it's called C.E.O. and if you win you will become the C.E.O. of a company.
Blame it on formulaic storytelling that makes the American box office tick, but it's been awhile since a story made us reconsider our definition of love and what you're capable of when you're in it.
Despite Ms. Gadsby's formulaic definitions of comedy, a whole tradition, which includes Andy Kaufman and Tig Notaro and various proponents of cringe comedy, experiments with the tension-release dynamic of the setup and punch line.
I may get flamed for saying this, but I come to the world of venture with a much more numbers-driven and formulaic approach to understanding business that I think helps me pick good investments.
Penelope faithfully performs the duties of all such conventional heroines, meeting her colorful neighbors, visiting the markets, sampling the cuisine, exploring the historical attractions and proving herself a better detective than the local gendarmerie. Formulaic?
"With so many having that zippy, stainless-steel feel, I thought I was at an albariño tasting," said Matthew, referring to the Spanish wine from Galicia, which, despite its potential, often descends into formulaic production.
Yet although Ashley Day — who was also part of the cast of "An American in Paris" for several years — is thoroughly believable as the increasingly frustrated Arnstein, by French standards the production feels somewhat formulaic.
Creator and Princess no sooner meet, near the start of the work, than they go into a formulaic this-thing-called-love duet, with no getting-to-know-you courtesy and some foolish upside-down lifts.
As formulaic and familiar as this story is, Moana finds new depths in it, thanks in part to songs by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Te Vaka frontman Opetaia Foa'i, and Grammy-winning composer Mark Mancina.
But then, as he has in previous debates, Rubio slowed, his initial energy fading into something more formulaic, and revealing the vulnerabilities that continue to hurt his candidacy going into the final weeks before the primaries.
I like products you can work and style through your hair in a formulaic fashion, whereas salt spray requires so much ad hoc, nonchalant styling that it makes someone as type-A as me positively twitch.
Because all romance novels are united by two guiding principles—the centrality of an initially-troubled relationship, and a happy ending—they have been written off as formulaic and light reads in contrast to literary fiction.
He then co-wrote and co-produced a sequel with his collaborator Debra Hill, but their subsequent attempt to keep the series from becoming formulaic would end up sending it meandering off in random, truncated directions.
Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft's screenplay virtually defines "formulaic" — and the less said about the dance routines, the better — but with performers this seasoned, predictability will be for some viewers less a liability than a bonus.
This playlist consists of musicians born under the sign of the twins, and pairs two of their songs representing the dualities of a Gemini: egotistical and vulnerable; hard and soft; frantic and formulaic; light and dark.
In its haste to tie up loose ends as efficiently as possible, "Passengers" becomes a banal, formulaic pastiche of dozens of other like-minded space operas in which the human drama gives way to technological awe.
"I can't quite work out a formulaic assessment of value for money against their participation versus the travel expenses, but I hear exactly what you say," Fried said, adding that the BoE would dwell on this.
Dozens of action movies have been made since the 1980s and '90s, most of them deeply formulaic; but Cruise is charming and charismatic, and his presence is often enough to elevate a film beyond the boilerplate.
To make a "Full House" sequel "good" — less formulaic, more innovative — would be like baking an artisanal, organic Hostess CupCake: You could do it, it might be delicious, but it would be a betrayal of the product.
Being state portraits, every detail of the paintings, from the robe colors to the sleeve design to the interior decor, is formulaic and symbolic, except for their faces, which are of course unique to the individual woman.
As everyone fawns over Paul distancing himself from the formulaic style he enjoyed in L.A.,, Redick is experiencing the exact same thing in a role that doesn't allow him to step on the gas whenever he wants.
Though Narcos: Mexico (which has already been renewed for a second season) is based on true events, its delivery is stalely formulaic, and it seems wholly uninterested in exploring anything beyond the tired tropes of the genre.
Take a formulaic plot about spies and cloning, then add dialogue so predictable that getting interrupted by pilots' announcements and turbulence and your seatmate's need to get up and use the bathroom won't detract from the experience.
As we explain on the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, we aren't blind to the show's flaws — there's something old-fashioned and formulaic about the writing, and the script regularly ignores major gaps in logic.
" Other explanations of his process, like one written in September, 1974, are more formulaic, but still illuminating: "My best procedure — to know I'm writing — is to think of my heroes — spread around me good books and pictures.
They are hoping for a homegrown French musical success, a rarity in recent years, but beyond that they are hoping to revitalize a genre that critics say has become formulaic and out of touch with theatergoers' tastes.
With dismaying formulaic rigor, the actions of "both sides" came in for criticism, even as the overwhelming body of evidence shows that white nationalist attacks have surged exponentially over the last few years both domestically and abroad.
But where Waylon broke from the formulaic Nashville sound by stripping the orchestration out of his music and incorporating elements of rock (as well as unapologetically doing copious amounts of drugs), Struggle instead brings in hip-hop.
Marxist theorists like Adorno decry the culture industry and the formulaic nature of what it makes, but at the same time they refuse to consider the joy these productions can bring or the artistic merit they contain.
Ahead of her return to stand-up with her Netflix special Relatable, the 60 year old comedian spoke with the New York Times about the constraints of keeping up a formulaic talk show for so many years.
And even though we're only on the second film, the murders already feel formulaic and perfunctory; gone are the creatively displayed bodies and carefully arranged murder tableaus, staged to increase the horror for everyone who finds them.
It was honest, but it was met with derision, and following poor reviews, he made the conscious decision to make his music more formulaic and less personal, writing detached lyrics and using spreadsheets to construct the songs.
" Leonardo might not have pioneered the formulaic technique that Robbins developed, but by using the Renaissance master's name, the paint-by-number art movement gained an important bit of legitimacy to its audiences, making them "real art.
The story elements are mostly formulaic, familiar from any number of superhero and science-fiction stories aimed at young audiences — the bicycle chases, the first crush, the pudgy, wisecracking sidekick who delivers most of the one-liners.
The writer, Joe Johnson, and directors, Damien Macé and Alexis Wajsbrot, have a few surprises, but not enough to make this anything other than a formulaic story of teenagers behaving badly and getting what's coming to them.
But the dance's choreographic pathways and unison phrases — like background movement — become increasingly formulaic, and the lifts, in which the women of all ranks are hoisted into the air to stretch like taffy, are out of control.
In recent months, the former secretary of State has made mostly formulaic efforts to reach out to the left-leaning young, many of whom are inclined to vote third-party or not vote at all in November.
But these issues do not spring organically from this clumsy novel — a novel that showcases its author's formidable talents in only half its pages, while bogging down the rest of the time in formulaic and predictable storytelling.
Despite that success, he's positioned himself as a country music outsider, openly criticizing the safe and formulaic nature of mainstream country — hence his jokes the night of the CMA Awards about not being allowed inside the event.
Organized via a combination of crowdsourcing and gatekeeping by the artist/curators Mira Dayal and Simon Wu, the show originated in the dicey proposition that art-making can be reduced to a set of formulas without becoming formulaic.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force is making its drills more realistic and less formulaic as it seeks to boost combat readiness, an official newspaper said on Friday, mapping out the latest step in the country's ambitious modernization program.
Black Panther isn't all that creative from a plot perspective, either — it's basically a Game of Thrones-style dynastic struggle — but it's still a refreshing change of pace; even when the narrative is familiar, it never feels formulaic.
Where modernists and postmodernists boldly plunder the collective treasuries of myth, legend, fairy tales, and art for their own idiosyncratic purposes, commercially minded writers replicate formulaic situations, characters, and plots in order to appeal to a wide audience.
The ways in which their friendship intersects with problems of class and race is at the crooked heart of Tanya Saracho's "Fade," a fizzy if somewhat formulaic two-character drama from Primary Stages at the Cherry Lane Theater.
The set, designed by David Korins, feels deliberately cramped; the lighting, by Jeff Croiter, is often sepulchral; and the cheerier numbers — like "First Steps First" and "You Deserve It" — sound a lot more formulaic than the darker ones.
Except when I made a joke that clearly wasn't that funny — perhaps only worthy of a single ha — and suddenly it dawned on me that his typical HAHAHA reply (that's three HAs, no spaces, all caps) was formulaic.
One of the formulaic letters addressed to Drew Springer, a Texas state representative, was allegedly signed by his predecessor, Rick Hardcastle — which would have been a bizarre mode of communication for two people who knew each other well.
"However, the movie's formulaic and rather simplistic approach to the world of Sonic and the story 'Sonic the Hedgehog' chooses to tell may be a bit frustrating or boring for those expecting more from the property," she wrote.
Nothing ever happens in this Princess and the Pauper story that will require your full attention — but it is all so satisfyingly formulaic, so gleefully saccharine, that you'll be happy just to have it on in the background.
But the show quickly begins giving less time to the music and more to duller, formulaic plot lines including a marital crisis, a murder investigation and a female secretary's attempts to break the hemp ceiling of the recording business.
" Stephen Holden, writing for The New York Times, called it "essentially a formulaic comedy, but it has enough glimmerings of originality and wit to make you wish it were much bolder and funnier than it turns out to be.
While it did claim a couple of bright spots in Q2, like the dark comedy Dead to Me and the limited series When They See Us, a good bit of Netflix's original content is becoming formulaic and copycat-ish.
In fact, whether number 1s have become more or less formulaic over the last 15 years is a moot point, because aside from Greg James does anybody actually know what's been in the chart for the last 15 years?
In other words, rock could experiment with its relatively new form, replace its already formulaic song structures with complicated poetics, reconfigure its stage presentations, and in the process, expand the range of what popular music could express and mean.
Of all literary genres, it tends to be the most formulaic, since it presents a succession of episodes that both advance and befuddle the trajectory toward a solution, which must be postponed until the very end of the novel.
One possible problem, said Andrew Liepman, a former senior C.I.A. official who helped write P.D.B. entries on the Middle East and terrorism for several presidents, is that the intelligence community has developed a formulaic and repetitive style of writing.
Looking back, doesn't the French military officer David Galula's famous eight-step procedure for winning in counterinsurgency, which American planners in the 1960s (and even today) thought was the last word on the subject, now seem a bit formulaic?
As the saying goes, we "make a Christmas" for one another, through our real-life behavior, creating a story along such formulaic lines that writing fiction about Christmas is somehow painting the lily, if you will, sugaring the sugarplum.
Every summer, movie theaters were filled with cheerfully formulaic movies about beautiful people falling in love and having wacky hijinks, and at least one or two of those movies was reliably pretty good and could sometimes launch a star.
The Bachelorette and The Bachelor have found success in being a very formulaic ride — group dates, helicopters, tears, roses, in-fighting, Fantasy Suites, saying "I love you" without saying "I love you" (never forget Des & Brooks' complicated list of cardio metaphors).
For instance, you don't have to look far to find complaints that Marvel's films are formulaic, or lack the visual spark of other blockbusters, or shoehorn in story elements that don't exactly fit but are necessary to set up future films.
Television used to rely on broad formulaic programming in its quest for advertising dollars, but that began to change in the 1990s when HBO, a premium cable channel without advertising, began offering high-quality programmes in order to win subscribers.
It's fitting that Casebere has used this (now somewhat formulaic) approach to interpret the architecture of the fabled Mexican architect Luis Barragán — who, according to a New Yorker piece concerning the disposition of his archive, was a confluence of contradictory energies.
The one performer who really triumphs over the material is Mr. Broadbent, who delivers a crisp, tart, completely credible performance as the somewhat formulaic Scottie (an aging, gay one-time spy who, conveniently for the plot, is subject to depression).
Generally, men also tend to be a little formulaic even in their most organic approach to chatting, said Christian Rudder, a co-founder of OkCupid, who analyzed and blogged about the data he gleaned from a number of dating sites.
After sitting in a waiting room filled with pregnant women, I'd get a brusque and formulaic appointment that consisted of a pelvic exam, Pap smear, and a quick question about birth control, and then I was sent on my way.
Some 87 percent of voters want judges to have more discretion to sentence nonviolent offenders on a case-by-case basis rather than saddle them with formulaic sentencing requirements that have clogged our prisons with people convicted of nonviolent crimes.
With his reputation and popularity in decline, no longer hip among the younger artists he inspired, with increasingly formulaic vehicles driving his brand, and not having performed before an audience in many years, Elvis Presley was, by 1968, in trouble.
Most of the music, by Shawn's main accompanist of the 1930s, Jess Meeker, is tepidly formulaic sub-Romanticism: The series of prettily descending triplets in the Water and Air sections feel endless, while other sections seem close to operetta kitsch.
Jin Yong elevated what had been a rather formulaic genre by blending in poetry, history and fantasy to create hundreds of vivid characters who travel through a mirror underworld that operates according to its own laws and code of ethics.
The so-called New Wave, which first broke in the early 1960s, was inspired by opposition not just to filmfarsi, the formulaic, Hollywood-influenced movies that dominated theaters, but also, some have argued, to the shah's whole project of enforced Westernization.
I teach research methods (lots), and I often find students reusing the same arguments over and over again, often parroting back formulaic critiques they've internalized from the media: the sample is too small, the participants are too homogeneous, and so on.
Starting with "Rekava" ("The Line of Destiny") in 250, Mr. Peries's films offered a significant shift from formulaic Indian-influenced dance and fantasy movies that had been standard fare in Sri Lanka, which was known as Ceylon at the time.
Like, I'm fairly embarrassed by the formulaic writing and lack of nuance in this 20163-page essay on the New Deal and how it transformed the role of government that I wrote for the History Day competition when I was 22016.
As he sees it, the formulaic strategies that sold stock market futures into a falling market in 1987 and the short volatility money of today are akin to barrels of petroleum that can turn a mere fire into a seismic conflagration.
Trump has been willing to reverse himself on other policy issues, gets no political benefit from pursuing such a pro-Russian course in the face of bipartisan opposition, and could score easy points by doing a little formulaic Putin-bashing.
The formulaic nature of the tracks may seem exhaustive, but Harding says that the homogeneity plays to their advantage, as Spotify playlists (which play key roles in the discovery of new music) are looking to gather songs for "moods," rather than variety.
Its harshest critics found that it just simply followed a formulaic path, when in reality, this movie was sold and started out as something that, like its comic book source material, was supposed to cut against the grain of traditional superhero storytelling.
The '80s were filled with iconic films like "Friday the 13th" and "Nightmare on Elm Street" as well as a slew of slasher sequels, but many of these relied heavily on formulaic plot lines and didn't break any new ground for the genre.
Given that viewers' top reason (87%) for bingeing was that they wanted to see more of the story, the formulaic, repeatable (rather than serialized) structure of competition shows — combined with their predictable series arc — could make competition series particularly immune to binge withdrawal.
But given that many of us have already exchanged some solid banter with Siri, it seems likely that computational humor will continue to burst free from the rigid frameworks of puns, double entendres, and other formulaic joke formats over the coming years.
"Emmerich stipulated that he thought the two legends of cinema did go a bit far with their criticisms, telling Insider: "I would say it's a little bit harsh but I'm not a fan of these movies either because they feel very formulaic.
Taking a bat to "The Walking Dead's" formulaic model to make it feel fresh againSunday's big surprise is a testament to how showrunner Angela Kang has turned what could have been a slow death of a massive hit show into a monster revival.
They cover the birth, life and death of each of her subjects in a way that can feel a bit formulaic, but this seems to have more to do with the fact that the English translation is typeset rather than in Bagieu's handwriting.
Vows Just months after they started dating more than two years ago, Ally Jane Grossan and Nabil Ayers felt certain they were headed for marriage, and it was with as much surety that they didn't want their wedding to feel formulaic and familiar.
As Kristal Brent Zook writes in her 1999 book, "Color by Fox," network executives were uneasy not just with black casts and writers but with "black complexity": they bumped black creators for white producers, pushing for the most risk-free, formulaic comedy.
Many of these arguments suggest that TV isn't as good as the media would like you to think it is, and that its prominence in our current cultural discourse is a disquieting trend — one that ignores the fact that the medium has always been formulaic.
Some companies gave broad, formulaic responses about how they work to comply with local laws, but insist, like French hosting company OVH, which works with nine sites, that "cloud infrastructure providers cannot be arbiters of morality," as the company wrote in an email to Gizmodo.
Cage-as-Kaufman bristles at the lessons, worried that McKee is ushering in a homogenization of screenwriting, a kind of formulaic "chicken in every pot, point of no return at every midpoint"–style of writing that will turn all movies into paint-by-numbers.
Many of the existing tours have evolved into a formulaic itinerary that can be heavily influenced by Cuban state-run companies, involving a relatively closed circle of architects, performers, economists and organic farmers who cycle through American tour groups, often receiving money for the visits.
The other writer, Doug Naylor, has a certain gift for turning a phrase, but his humor (in my opinion) tends to be rougher and more formulaic; the jokes in Naylor-written episodes come in predictable shapes, with the funny bits filled in like Mad Libs.
This might not outwardly be a bad thing, but it could have negative side effects if podcast creators eventually rely on formulaic approaches to titles and descriptions that, prior to the new Google search feature, were places where they more openly expressed a show's identity.
Since the advent of the "Sopranos," culture critics have observed that we are now in a second Golden Age of Television; that -- unlike the 1970s -- TV is pushing the envelope into bold storytelling and new genres while movies are becoming increasingly formulaic and provincial.
Today, mainstream E.D.M. commands about as much respect as disco did then, and for some of the same reasons: it seems too formulaic, too quick to slough off older musical values, too eager to please the hordes on the dance floors and the grassy fields.
If nothing else, the recent nominations ought to inspire more financial assistance from local investors and film institutions, the establishment of a more reliable distribution system, less threat of censorship, and wider viewership among Arabs who remain entranced by Hollywood blockbusters and formulaic Egyptian fare.
The palette is also a huge contrast point: Pam & Gela's polished sweats come primarily in neutral hues, with lots of black, while Juicy's color scheme "was formulaic, and it was about many, many shades of the same thing, and that just feels wrong now," Nash-Taylor said.
Their heavily male, games-driven channels are even more formulaic than those of their beauty guru sisters: The "creator" has only to find a popular game (or in some cases, a weird and quirky one), play it through, and shout over the soundtrack to garner attention.
"Gold price action lately has been nearly formulaic: the market starts to lean one way, gets disappointed in the price action, and a contrary headline gives it a shove in the opposite direction," said Tai Wong, head of base and precious metals derivatives trading at BMO.
The director Phyllida Lloyd and a creative team that includes many of Ms. Lloyd's colleagues from the ABBA-scored musical smash "Mamma Mia!" have folded Ms. Turner's formidable songbook into a briskly efficient, if often formulaic, survey of her life — or, at least, a sizable chunk of it.
Yigit shares the dreams and aspirations of many creatives his age—frustrated by what he felt were formulaic trends in a monopolized electronic pop scene, he recently launched the project as a way to discover new avenues of creation and establish connections with like-minded artists over the internet.
You try to keep it interesting and something that isn't formulaic, and you also want the personalities of everyone in the group to come through and whatever those influences are, as wide as they me be, they still filter through rock 'n' roll or punk rock in some way.
That said, as someone who will absolutely shed a tear if you make me watch the "Portals" scene in Endgame, I would have no qualms laying out which Marvel movies feel like formulaic placeholders for sequels, or how a world exclusively full of Marvel movies is completely worrisome.
But the formulaic nature of Stranger Things' seasonal beats — somebody tries to open a door to the Upside Down, something bad gets through, the cast splits into smaller groups, Eleven has to do something incredible, and everybody comes back together at the end — has no real structural underpinning in the story.
You'd think that with powerful corporate backing behind them, Nickelodeon and Disney would have powerful app skills, but the former spits out formulaic re-skinned racing and gem-dropping games and the latter is a heaving cesspool of in-app purchases that can make a single app cost $13 or more.
But what really separates this space opera sequel from the rest of Marvel's films is Gunn and his cast's willingness to abandon the Marvel cinematic universe's more polished and formulaic veneer and drill into the heart of what makes this movie and the Guardians franchise so impossibly irresistible: pure fun.
It's gotten so formulaic and tired that even The Young Turks referred to it as "self-proclaimed legal experts rashly opin(ing.)" Every week now, the American people are treated to the same cycle: dramatic assumptions about the White House's ties to Russia, then a slow and often obvious walk-back.
" Cruz, who recently endorsed the man who beat him in the Republican primary after months of refusing to do so, embraced his new role as a Trump surrogate in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, dinging Clinton as "tired" and "formulaic" while praising Trump for drawing "strong contrast.
And in some ways, having Stone literally "save the cat" (the title of one of the most famous, most formulaic books on screenwriting) feels like a cheap shortcut to helping us understand that he's a good guy, underneath all of the things that make him a little hard to take.
Though meetings can be formulaic and involve Chinese ministers reading from a script, one diplomat says that Beijing is a less humiliating place, at least formally, than Washington, where smaller countries trying to secure a meeting must expend tremendous effort befriending congressmen with ancestral ties to their country or an interest in it.
The doughnut shop scene is a blatant product tie-in, but it also offers a moment of sweet and refreshing strangeness in the midst of an otherwise tedious and formulaic big-budget production, in part because it's the sort of out-of-left-field bit you might have found in the original series.
It made me realize that if you want to use reading or writing to understand who you are, and understand the human condition, you're going to have to put away some of the formulaic genres like space opera and focus on the ultimate question of all great writing, which is, 'Who are we?
" — Maggie Lee, Variety "Beyond the casting and the ceaseless onslaught of diverse special effects, Zhang and his Hollywood screenwriters have delivered nothing more than a formulaic monster movie — albeit one transposed to a historically undefined China where generals dressed like terra-cotta warriors already have mastered anesthetics, air travel and American-accented English.
That's, more often than not, not part of the discourse when you talk about symposiums or lectures, because they become like these, like, synthetic touring circuses, these talks that are so formulaic, and you kind of imagine the people sitting for hours in their bedrooms in front of their mirrors perfecting their hand gestures.
Over the past few years, Syfy has consistently advanced its apparent goal of becoming one of the "good" networks on basic cable, moving toward a lineup worthy of its Battlestar Galactica heyday and away from its reputation as the harbinger of low-budget B movies and schlocky, formulaic sci-fi/fantasy like Hercules and Stargate.
A Torah ark from Sioux City, Iowa, dating to 1899 and featuring a profusion of carved lions, eagles and flora, stands next to an equally ornate but far more rigid portrait of an Ethiopian Israeli by Kehinde Wiley that, as so often in this painter's work, drowns complex political and historical circumstances in formulaic ornament.
Perhaps it's become a bit more formulaic and organized than in its youth, but some middle-age practicality is necessary for an event that has grown from 35 people at its inception on Baker Beach in San Francisco to a town of its own in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, drawing 65,000 temporary residents each summer.
Stuffing ripped-off mythical creatures into a formulaic police flick and casting Will Smith may get people to add the movie to their Netflix queue — the streaming service funded the movie and is distributing it, in a bid to prove that it can disrupt the big studios with a blockbuster that it releases directly into people's living rooms.
It's been happening since Travis covered "…Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears, and you only have to look at the critical response to Ryan Adams re-recording the entirety of Taylor Swift's record-busting 1989 to see how a male artist covering pop songs in that unchanging, distinctly formulaic way seems to always attract higher praise.
If the ACM wants to actually celebrate the legacy and music of Merle Haggard, they should drop all the formulaic cannon fodder bullshit they've been pumping down rural America's throat for the last 30 years along with all the high school pageantry, meat parade award show bullshit and start dedicating their programs to more actual Country Music.
Coming at the end of this program, it caps a primer in the developmental stages of choreography, the dancers emerging from the bare classroom steps of "Devoted" and the formulaic patterning of "HOK Solo" into a fascinating world of drama where it's impossible to anticipate what's happening, and you want to catch it all but you can't.
Madison Square Park has become a destination on the art and culture map, according to Julián Zugazagoitia, director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. "It's not formulaic or predictable who the next commission is — every new piece is a total surprise," said Mr. Zugazagoitia, who has participated in Ms. Rapaport's Public Art Consortium.
And it was formulaic by now: At the end of each workday, as the commander-in-chief settled in for a pre-slumber marathon of shouting at cable news and Celebrity Apprentice reruns, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Reince Priebus would gather around a table in the old executive office building, each nursing his own bowl of cereal and bottle of Baileys.
Chip and Joanna Gaines, the stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper, make their living off of renovating normal houses in and around Waco, TX and turning them into gorgeous, albeit formulaic houses in and around Waco, TX. Lately, many of these Fixer Upper homes have been cropping up as vacation rental listings — a trend that threatens the sanctity of the dream home.
The film starts with a fairly formulaic introductory sequence, recounting Hendrix's career up until that point — which feels somewhat superfluous and footnotes earlier footage shot by Goldstein and his collaborators into blink-and-you'll-miss-it fragments — but once it arrives at the concert itself, its magic begins, with Hendrix speaking for himself through performances and candid moments from earlier on that day.
About a third of the way through Garth Greenwell's first novel, "What Belongs to You" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), there occurs one of those moments that have become formulaic in contemporary fiction-making: the protagonist is summoned home; his father is ill, "gravely" so, and wants his son to come back, despite the fact that they have not spoken in years.
"I know this sounds incredibly formulaic, but committing to these relationship goals with each person in my family, when there aren't other issues that are immediately pressing, allows me to put a plan in place for those times during the year when it is more chaotic, I'm not as reflective, but I still want to keep those high-level priorities top of mind," she writes.
Back then, The X Factor also produced actual stars—Leona Lewis, JLS, One Direction, Little Mix, Olly Murs, Cher Lloyd—and even though the show was objectively shit and formulaic, and the music released afterwards so bland you could not differentiate one song from another, there was a certain level of joy and comfort to be found going through the motions and witnessing the final product.
A co-production between the National Theater of Scotland, which Ms. Featherstone used to run, and Newcastle's Live Theater in the north of England, the evening ricochets between a roisterous gig and a somewhat formulaic tug at the emotions, all types on the social and physical spectrum covered by the six performers who look to do for tight-knit female ensembles what Alan Bennett's vaunted "The History Boys" did for his retinue of testosterone-charged school-age lads.
"Beyond Borders" (the second "Criminal Minds" spinoff after the short-lived "Suspect Behavior") is, like the original, unapologetically formulaic; the shows are among the most rigidly formatted dramas on TV. Innocents are snatched or killed before the opening credits, a team of F.B.I. profilers takes its federal jet to the scene, a relationship (tense or collegial) is established with local law enforcement, and a profile of the psycho-perp is delivered in singsong fashion to a roomful of cops.

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