1. Children love jokes and riddles that are heavily formulaic.

2. The text was dull and formulaic.

3. His paintings are contrived and formulaic.

4. Anglo Saxon poetry is formulaic.

5. This film is too formulaic, meandering slowly through the typical initiation scenes of a stranger in a strange place.

6. It is the simple or formulaic use of the trust clause which is of the greater significance.

7. But it was formulaic fast Ministry music, so we thought it out.

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8. Between formulaic speeches have been some unusually fiery debates.

9. The movie was good despite formulaic plot.

10. A conventional. formulaic oversimplified conception. opinion. or image.

11. A conventional, formulaic and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.

12. Howson's assured, bold technique has become gradually more formulaic, emphasizing caricature and strength of compositional structure.

13. In a debate last night at the British Library, Dr Anthony Seldon, the Master of Wellington College, called for an end to "formulaic and mechanised" education at "large and anonymised" schools.

14. Formulaic expressions account for the stylization of legal language, and thus constitute an obstacle to students who major in Legal English or Business English.

15. Second, the use of this phenomenon in a formulaic manner by artists to separate forms.

16. His performance is too formulaic , and does not dig into the heart of the characters.

17. There is no doubt generally that children love jokes and riddles that are predictably structured and heavily formulaic, whatever the fashionable subject-matter.

18. This would not imply that all of the many thousands of formulaic expressions would be expressly taught.

19. Within the category of lexical items, I include the formulaic patterns I referred to earlier.

20. Instead of being enchanted, we inevitably become disenchanted with programming which only offers a choice between formulaic sitcoms or worthless docusoaps.

21. Set up so it could be sustained by armies of private profit-making firms, it had to be formulaic.

22. With Andriy Shevchenko recalled as a substitute, Lampard's backing for the Ukrainian goes beyond the formulaic.

23. I did not believe in any concept quite so formulaic, but I felt lightened.

24. The frequently-used strategies of Chinese interrogatives acquisition in the context of natural conversation include using formulaic speech, repetition and simplification.