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The story could easily have run adrift in formulaic silliness.

Mistaken identity turns this 'Date Night' into madcap romp 2010

Given the theme of Yotsuba, “Enjoy Everything”, I think it being a little formulaic is be expected.

*Yotsuba&! Book 8 — Recommended » Manga Worth Reading 2010

The opportunity to be long-winded yet perfunctory, paradoxically daring yet formulaic, is available to only proven hit makers at the top of the heap.

March 2008 2008

Previously you implied that the "Theory of Evolution" (your capitals, though whether that's the old standby RM-NS or something else just as blindly formulaic is not explained) is capable "of generating the complexity and diversity we observe in life."

Beckwith on ID 2008

The opportunity to be long-winded yet perfunctory, paradoxically daring yet formulaic, is available to only proven hit makers at the top of the heap.

An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

Probably all this angst about formula and being formulaic is merely shorthand for what J.T. said above.

Formula for Disaster 2007

Suspense and tension are squandered in the name of formulaic melodrama: Will they get the kids out alive?

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Marshall Fine 2011

The surfeit of what became known as the formulaic Full Monty effect eventually inured audiences to the charms of hard knocks/happy future comedies, but

Thestar.com - Home Page Greg Quill 2010

It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.

A Modernist Prometheus Hal Duncan 2005

It strikes me that this approach is actually entirely antithetical to the use of fantasy in formulaic writing so, as a sort of inversion of it, I’ve coined the phrase Symbolic Formulation.

Archive 2005-03-01 Hal Duncan 2005