schematic
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If films about catastrophe often take a schematic, meet-the-victims approach to their opening scenes, Ms. Littman renders hers with persuasive vibrancy, too full of life to have room for heavy-handed portent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
As schematic as the premise sounds—it’s another hitman story, after all—the series is fast-paced and gripping, largely because it’s so fast-paced.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
Setting down the xenomorphs on Earth is a stunning, scary idea that Hawley builds from a schematic illustrated with tension, tragedy, fascination, and grim familiarity with our species’ greatest flaws: hubris and greed.
From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025
Mir and Raj are schematic opposites, physically and temperamentally.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
A number of studies support this schematic strategy.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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