Word: formulaic
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...well, here’s my two cents’ worth—Botega Veneta: Cool but a bit too early-2001? Prague: So 1990s. My Philippe Starck lemon juicer: Eternal.) I guess I could’ve been a sports columnist, although knowledge of English soccer and Formula One racing probably wouldn’t cut it in a college newspaper. I even wanted to discuss punctuation and other matters of style, á là Fowler or Safire...
...believe that in Dennis Tito we may have stumbled on a formula to cure many of the ills that plague our world and that the Russians, far from being inept, are showing us the true meaning of capitalism. The idea is simple: Let filthy rich amateurs pay through the nose for experiences they would not otherwise be able to have. And it will benefit all the rest of us. Call it the Tito Plan...
...While in the humanities, such a scenario would likely be disastrous, Gortler says he thinks it is a formula which works in the sciences...
...Narita airport is required to answer, as though it matters what Brad Pitt or Britney Spears thinks of Japan, as though a mere glimpse of Narita's airport lounge would elicit any interesting thoughts at all. But interest is not the point here; it is a ritual, a formula. Foreign guests express their admiration, and their hosts accept these verbal tributes gracefully...
Play doesn't just make kids happy, healthy and human. It may also make them smarter, says Rosenfeld. Today's mania for raising young Einsteins, he observes, might have destroyed the real Einstein--a notorious dreamer who earned poor grades in school but somewhere in his frolics divined the formula for the relationship between matter and energy. Play refreshes and stimulates the mind, it seems. And "frequent breaks may actually make kids more interested in learning," according to Rhonda Clements, a Hofstra University professor of physical education...