A very formulaic story but decent film for a debutant.

Together they wrote hundreds of spy novels, between 1900 and 1914, but the formulaic stories have been judged as of little literary merit.

Don Quixote interrupts when Cardenio suggests that his beloved may have become unfaithful after the formulaic stories of spurned lovers in Chivalric novels.

And it is your call whether you can think differently than the usual formulaic story.

But the filmmakers have succeeded in making Guerin's fascinating story tedious and formulaic, and in making a real-life drama seem as phony as mediocre television.

Whatever Mensch's gender politics may be, it appears that readers have grown a tad weary of her formulaic stories.

If that sounds familiar, so does just about everything - except the fascinating historical details about Jumbo - in this carefully executed, formulaic story.

The characters in his formulaic stories sometimes improved their social position through the aid of an older, kindly, wealthly helping person.

Despite having been their genre's first and second writers, their prosaic style and formulaic stories, produced voluminously from 1900 to 1914, proved of low literary merit.

Executives said the change was intended to make the programs more distinctive and less reliant on formulaic stories and sensationalism.