Sentence examples for formulaic narrative from inspiring English sources

Thanks to its polemical style, formulaic narrative and, at times, propagandistic language, it has more currency as a work of literary journalism than of great fiction.

Yet Garland's writerly abilities make it clear that she could just as easily have dispensed with these somewhat formulaic narrative devices.

Director Robert Lorenz served as producer and first assistant director on several Eastwood movies and has adopted his mentor's no-fuss style that, combined with the formulaic narrative, makes for unsurprising fare.

Following swiftly on from the surprise 2012 hit Magic Mike, in which Channing Tatum's warm-hearted stripper danced, dallied and did nothing much at all, Magic Mike XXL doubles down on those simple thrills and strips away the more formulaic narrative impulses of its predecessor.

The Gendered Journey could be an opening to escape the formulaic narrative that we have surrendered all our stories to.

The promise of cyber-realist storytelling is that viewers are tired of formulaic narratives and are looking instead for richer stories that allow them greater freedom of manoeuvre.

Formulaic narratives are populated by tireless Western humanitarians, sex-crazed polygamous paedophiles (most Afghan men) and burqa-clad "child-women" who are broken in body and spirit or have just enough doughtiness to be scripted into a triumphal Hollywood narrative.

This time around, if it has been guilty of anything, it is of the liberal complacency that assumed that if you feed the masses with formulaic narratives of redemption and mythic violence, they will ignore rightwing radicalism.

As indicated by the anthology's three sections — "The Crimefighters," "The Villains" and "The Dames" — these adventures satisfy because they encode every kind of male fantasy into their formulaic narratives about cynical private operatives plugging bad guys in defense of women who'll betray them in the end.

The site also gives complete creative freedom to its models, eschewing the formulaic narratives used by mainstream porn companies in order to offer a more nuanced and realistic look at trans sexuality.

The plays have received mixed reviews, with Last One Standing in particular being criticised for its formulaic and predictable narrative.