Sentence examples for boilerplate description from inspiring English sources

"Every parent's nightmare" would be the evening news boilerplate description of "We Need to Talk About Kevin," Lynne Ramsay's disturbing movie about the mother of a child who goes on a killing spree at his high school.

To read his boilerplate description of the Ponzi scheme, contained in the government's charges against him, it was a highly complex affair — far more complex, ironically, than managing real money — and required a staff of people to carry it out.

In a CEO's discussion of the long-term plan, what is useful is setting out a commentary on the way the board signals for management to take the long-term view but employ language that isn't a boilerplate description of formal corporate governance arrangements.

A boilerplate description of a teacher online isn't going to convey what it feels like to help a struggling student overcome a hardship; or conversely, what it's like to not be able to use your lesson plan because you have to teach students facts to pass a scantron state exam.

Are boilerplate descriptions of physiological functions in the same league?

This includes boilerplate material (general description and responsibilities) and a list of specific, concrete duties for which the Fellow will be responsible.

If you're sitting here thinking about your own company's boilerplate, mission statement or product/service description and you have no clue how it compares to your main competitor's, then you've failed.

The descriptions have the triteness of screenplay boilerplate, as if the author expected a movie director to evoke the scenes he sets.

The job description, too long to detail here, is largely boilerplate.

Romney's campaign has said that the descriptions of him as a Bain executive were just legal boilerplate, reflecting the fact that it wasn't until 2002, three years after he stopped working for Bain Capital on a day-to-day basis, that he and the firm reached a severance agreement.

The description of the trial that he gave at the meetings was just a "boilerplate," he said.