Some of it is boilerplate: the work was composed as Tafelmusik — music to dine by — and it is meant to entertain without wresting the attention.
That novelty soon vanishes: when the orchestra kicks in, it is with a patch of Mr. Glass's chugging boilerplate, and indeed, in both works, whenever the soloists take a break, Mr. Glass reprises old hits: pensive minor-key music from the "Satyagraha - Akhnaten" era in the Satyagraha - AkhnatenCerao Concerto, brassy "Koyaaninqathe"-slowe passages in the second movement of the work for timpani.
I mean, there's got to be a mechanism in these plans that I can go to an independent health care expert and say, is this something that will actually work, or is it boilerplate?
But if it adheres to a traditional model, the work is by no means boilerplate.
The film features some recognizable names doing the voice work but gives them a boilerplate story, about polar-opposite brothers on a planet named Baab who end up in a pickle on Earth.
Matisse appears practically undigested in his early works; the surrealist phase is boilerplate; the language of Picasso is borrowed – not to say copied – wholesale.
A few trenchant moments are scattered through the two-and-a-half-hour work, but "Ermione" is mostly Rossinian boilerplate: chirpy tunes with scant connection to the words being sung, much less the emotions they evoke, and plenty of florid stuntwork for the soloists.
Some groups are working to make these types of boilerplate contracts more protective of consumers, such as the ones required by the European Union.
Even though we're facing what Alan Greenspan called a "once in a century" economic cataclysm, the public airwaves are still filled with the familiar Republican boilerplate: cut taxes, cut spending, deregulate, let the market work its magic, and so on.
It is up to states to make this happen, because the boilerplate corporate "we care about your privacy" announcements are not working.
A lot of legal work consists of pulling up standard contracts and other legal boilerplate from databases.
