Word: formulaic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...yield a block of ice. "It had been a while since I'd done real math problems. I had to break out the old textbook," says Williams, a product-development consultant with his own firm, Dissigno, in San Francisco. After eons of number crunching, he hit on the right formula and built a prototype. It isn't very efficient; his device uses 35 times as much energy as an electric fridge to make 1 kg of ice. But its simplicity could yield a killer app in Third World villages, where Williams hopes aid groups will distribute his icemaker...
Maybe the publisher, MTV Books, recognized that 50’s ubiquity made photographs unnecessary. Aside from making music, 50 manages a record label; has his own clothing, shoe, and watch lines; sells “Formula 50” vitamin water; and appears in his own video game. 50 is everywhere, and his omnipresence detracts somewhat from the appeal of “From Pieces to Weight” because fans feel like they know him already...
...It’s finding a formula that the various players can agree to,” Ruggie said. “What can [firms] be expected to do? What are they willing to do to protect the human rights? What’s the role of government...
It’s hard to tell whether “Sky High” is falling to formula or purposely kitsched up, but it does succeed in mocking comic conventions. Besides the lessons learned in the Sidekick’s “Hero Support” classes, we are treated to some full out “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers”-style fighting between The Commander and Jetstream and a giant metal robot, as well as some very Morphin’-style villains plotting their next move...
...love scene, if such a jumpy naturalistic sequence can be described in the same terms as the formula that’s de rigeur in genre films, seems to have inspired Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight” love scene. And the pillow talk beats anything coming out of modern Hollywood. “Hey, what’s my last name?” she asks, knowing he neither knows nor cares. “What’s my first name?” he responds...