The bank will be less formulaic than major institutions in assessing its customers' needs and credit-worthiness, said Contreras-Sweet, who served as California secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing under former Gov. Gray Davis.
The feature form allows for more expression by the writer because it is less formulaic than the traditional news story, but with that come pitfalls.
The podcasts I prefer are less formulaic; the shows that go where you don't expect them to, that take a tale and reveal a sudden twist.
There's less formulaic youthful charm in Michel Gondry's Microbe et Gasoil (Studiocanal, 15), a winningly shaggy adolescent buddy comedy in which a pair of geeky teen outcasts decide to escape the confines of suburban Paris, hitting the road in a ramshackle timber caravan — homemade, of course, this being a Gondry affair.
The style of a review is less formulaic, and editors have lively arguments, among themselves as well as with authors, as to what constitutes legitimate review material.
All this eases processing so that attention can be allocated to parts of the discourse that are less formulaic and therefore less predictable.
And although "Mulan" is traditional linear storytelling, the movie is less formulaic than many predecessors in its theme, tone and execution.
The use of formulaic sequences was shown to be especially beneficial to perceptions of language learners' fluency and range of expression but the evidence for its positive influence on language learners' perceived accuracy was found to be less convincing.
"As it's 'art' rather than 'commemoration', it can be far less formulaic".
There is some truth to this, but it's also true that freed from the dictates of the marketplace, short stories these days are often less formulaic, less imitative than they used to be.
