After a rote Cuban education and the strictures of its regime, she suddenly found herself "in a participatory situation where every idea counts".
By contrast, Ms Whitman began seeming like a rote and robotic Powerpoint presentation.
"I think it's become a little bit of a rote routine that bores me frankly".
Service is friendly, efficient and thorough, yet it also has a rote, stilted quality.
The menu, a rote recitation of bistro classics, certainly hadn't changed.
"It's a rote process that almost automatically puts you in a better frame of mind".
Now that statement seems to have been a rote reaction by the North's propaganda machine.
Still, make no mistake: Mr. Malkovich is also pointedly giving a rote star turn, charismatic, offhand, with little intensity.
The dynamic, wisely, isn't will-they-or-won't-they, a rote motif that has sunk mightier shows.
Not one of the show's 20 songs -- some of them standards, others not -- received a rote performance.
A generic two-word reference to God tucked inside a rote civic exercise is not a prayer.
