Word: formulaically
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...Dylans do deviate--once--from their formula of upbeat electric rockers. Sadly, the result is the monotonous "(Don't Cut Me Down) Mary Quant in Blue," which features an early eighties dance pop groove, a sound last heard on the $100 Yamaha Porta-Sound PSS-470 mini-keyboard that Uncle Harry gave me for Hanukah. So much for fancy production...
...late 1970s, Fisher helped the Carter administration design a formula for the landmark Camp David Accord which made peace between Israel and Egypt. Later, he assisted in negotiations with the government of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis...
...There was no inflating of prices," he says. Walsh explains that "the ultimate price [of the condominiums] was based on a formula" which combined his estimate and the bank's estimate of the property value...
...surprise attack and the war in the Pacific, he added, resulted from "the reckless decision of our military." It was a particularly direct statement that went beyond the usual bland formula used by Japanese officials...
Pianist Shura Cherkassky is celebrating his 80th birthday this season in a typical way: a concert tour that would make a much younger artist flinch. Cherkassky still plays more than 80 dates a year, and audiences can be sure that there won't be any staleness or formula presentation. He is called the last of the great Romantics for good reason: his style is freewheeling, poetic, very much the flowering of his temperament and his mood of the moment. As such he is a priceless antidote to the prevailing vogue in pianism for note-perfect but dry interpretations. Along with...