"The other person may still be the curmudgeon, but I think of it as the law of physics: When you change one aspect of the formula, things change in the total".
It doesn't help that the vast majority of Rambo films all follow the same formula – bad thing happens, hero reluctantly agrees to intervene, everything gets blown up in increasingly silly ways until the hero wins – all of which suits a two-hour film narrative more than a 10-hour series.
"She already understands the formula of things people are not used to seeing".
If you follow that formula, amazing things happen.
9 A reduction in the incidence of CKD stage 3 and above would therefore mean that there would be a cut in funding to primary care arising from the use of the CKD-EPI formula, other things being equal, of around £400 for an average practice.
"The formula spit this thing out for us.
"We basically came to the conclusion that the formula was the thing to preserve," said Gordon L. Rinschler, the engineer and DaimlerChrysler vice president who oversaw the minivan redesign project.
In the main, though, it sticks to the last iteration's formula – no bad thing – with a few welcome tweaks and twists.
There exists a sloppy but perhaps not wholly unjust accusation that a lot of Stephen King's earliest work is based on a definite formula: take a thing that people are scared of and make it scarier.
Aquinas' balanced formula "equation of thing and intellect" is intended to leave room for the idea that "true" can be applied not only to thoughts and judgments but also to things or persons (e.g. a true friend).
