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• “The story could easily have run adrift in formulaic silliness.”

  Mistaken identity turns this 'Date Night' into madcap romp

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

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

• “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.”

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• “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

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

  Formula for Disaster

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

  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

• “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”

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• “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

• “It suddenly hit me that this six-word formulaic prescription has entrenched itself into common parlance.”

  Hartford Courant blogs

• “Shriver's review reeks of the kind of rationalization book reviewers constantly offer when recommending "formulaic" fiction written "comfortably within a conventional form.”

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