How to Use formulaic in a Sentence

formulaic

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• The plot is a bit formulaic, but the fashion…so deeply ’80s, and yet so good.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 18 Aug. 2024
• The genre’s formulaic beats are, for the most part, hit with a modicum of savvy smarts.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Feb. 2023
• The book also does well to skirt the tropes and formulaic methods of thriller writing.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• None of the shows have been formulaic: There has just been great writing and acting.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 May 2023
• The movie is as frothy as the foam on a pint of Guinness, as formulaic as the last disposable Netflix rom-com.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2024
• Instead of going through the formulaic questioning, the queen paused and asked him to open a box on the table, Roscoe said.
  — Jean-Nicholas Fievet, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2022
• The book is much more than a formulaic, playful rom-com despite the marketing and the fairy tale font on the book cover.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
• In a bid to score a breakout hit, many songwriters are risk averse and formulaic.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2021
• Too much of what gets built today in our cities is formulaic, just good enough to be approved and get financed.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• So familiar, that at times Bonds' script can't help but feel a bit formulaic.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• But in the course of 70 minutes, much of Mendelssohn’s choral and orchestral writing strikes me as formulaic, with tubs duly thumped.
  — Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2023
• The Nintendo Indie World Showcase is a cure for those tired of the same formulaic shooter.
  — Gieson Cacho Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• Lohan stars as a rich hotel heiress in the formulaic but breezy Falling for Christmas.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 23 Dec. 2022
• Too many yearning, midtempo Jagged Edge songs in a row made the group’s catalog seem formulaic.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• Like many biopics, the movie was considered a formulaic, simplified version of the truth.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Aug. 2023
• What unfolds on Crash proves to be anything but formulaic.
  — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
• Pop is a highly formulaic art, and some amount of copying is pretty much inevitable.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• But point being, a network sitcom is much more formulaic at this point.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• Yet the end is not so formulaic; as the plot evolves, an unforeseen transformation takes place.
  — Paul Sedan, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2021
• Even the traumas tend (with one exception) to be formulaic.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• This less tongue-in-cheek traipse through formulaic sci-fi horror terrain works well enough to a point, its setup nicely handled by Weitz and his cast.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
• The machine was primed to churn me into a formulaic superstar.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
• Schweighöfer does have a memorable screen presence, and this film is well made, as formulaic pictures so often are.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• There is something about composing from scratch — having to come up with an idea and struggle with the best way to say it — that makes our creations more human and less formulaic.
  — Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 29 Feb. 2024
• The script is beyond formulaic, so of course, when Beau returns to the resort and sends out a search party, Sierra gets yanked back to her real life just in time to reevaluate it.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
• There’s a reason these formulaic roles are so prevalent.
  — Magda Romanska, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2020
• A lot of time, the industry pushes you into being more formulaic and try to diminish your voice.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2024
• By 1958, dance work was drying up, as the formulaic movie musical became passe.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2022
• But her journey takes the length of the entire novel, and is summarized only in a quick, again largely formulaic, epilogue.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The unsettling landscape of dream logic doesn’t lend itself to many formats, least of all the rigidly formulaic, comfortingly predictable whodunit.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024