Sentence examples for a pat formula from inspiring English sources
I know more about Wagner now than I did then, and would no longer resort to such a pat formula.
The first two sections open with quotations from Shakespeare, but the epigraph of the third and final section, "On Being Human", suggests a change of gear: it's a phrase from You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier: "Being a person is not a pat formula, but a quest, a mystery, a leap of faith".
The trauma Anna endures is not solved by any pat formula - her place within the constellation of crazy family members, mad friends and Machiavellian colleagues rouses her from despair.
One of the initial attempts to express human impact mathematically was developed in the 1970s and is called the I PAT formula.
Instead of offering pat formulas for what children owe parents (everything! nothing!), the most useful answers gave the daughter a framework through which to draw her own conclusions, based on her values.
At the heart of cinema's failure was said to have been the straitjacket of the story arc: the movies' fraught timespan supposedly forced them into pat formulae requiring over-neat plot resolution but allowing no space for character development.
The difference between a pat comedy and Little Miss Sunshine or between a formula drama and Breaking Bad are easily discerned by most people.
It wasn't a caress, it was simply a pat, pat, pat".
A pat here, a quiet word there.
