formulaic
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“Innocent Ways” wants to be a bass-quaking party anthem in the manner of something from Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica,” but it has no personality and comes off as stiff and formulaic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
That would allow a more formulaic approach, pretty much like cricket's live DRS reviews.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
And while this treacly coming-of-age dramedy might be as formulaic as “The Whisper Man” and “The Last House,” the film boasts something its two peers are missing: a soul.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
While these celebrity docs are hagiographic and formulaic, the interviews with Nadal and family and rivals like Federer and Novak Djokovic do push beyond the surface.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
Visual analysis can help us to appreciate the beauty of a masterpiece, but we must be careful not to use a formulaic approach that would trivialize it.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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