formulism

When we start thinking in terms of what will sell, we tend to move towards formulism, and this not only dilutes the story, but decreases the chances of a reader making a real emotional connection.

An Interview with Andrew Stone. Interviewed by Pat Hayworth 2010

[Tablada] Many comrades engaged in formulism, schematism, and bureaucratism.

FIFTH UJC CONGRESS 1987

But those who cannot understand sacramentarianism may dismiss it far too easily, for though there be here danger of a mechanical formulism, the sacraments themselves may become part of a spiritual discipline through which the lives of men and women are so profoundly changed as in the most clear case of conversion, manifesting often a spiritual beauty not to be found in any other conception of Christian discipleship.

Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912

This approach may not break any new ground, but it seems entirely appropriate to the subject, a modern day songwriting savant and restless genre-hopper who once wrote in a manifesto on formulism in music, "Cliché is dead, long live the cliché!"

NPR Topics: News 2010

"This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy."

GreenCine Daily 2009

"This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy."

GreenCine Daily 2009

"This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy."

GreenCine Daily 2009

"This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy."

GreenCine Daily 2009

"This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy."

GreenCine Daily 2009

"This encroaching formulism ultimately dooms the film, which stumbles into its final act as an if-you-say-so romantic comedy."

GreenCine Daily 2008