Formulaic phrases describe the reaction of frightened soldiers: "Such panic overwhelmed the Heike that one took his bow but forgot arrows, another arrows but forgot his bow".
He does so in ways that sometimes echo those epics, as when he repeats formulaic phrases for recurrent phenomena and events.
I had some formulaic phrases, such as 'My name is William' and 'Where is the cathedral?'" Will and Marianne met at the student bar.
Of course, these major figures are embedded in a cast of puppets that the master showman can't help but tag with formulaic phrases in his uniquely comical fashion.
Under Israel's policy of ambiguity, Israeli journalists are not supposed to confirm the existence of the arsenal, and every time they refer to it they have to add a formulaic phrase like 'according to foreign reports' or some such.
In a municipal vote in July, the Brotherhood swept the board in all Jordan's bigger cities.When the government moved against Hamas, the new-look Brotherhood mumbled a few formulaic phrases about Muslim solidarity and the Palestinian cause, but essentially abandoned its Islamic brethren to their fate.
Researchers are expected to relinquish their "subjective" fascinations, interests and desires and to become mainstreamed contributors ($ → S2), a tendency which is reinforced by automation and high-tech research contrivances (represented by the lozenge), but also by the use of technical terms, standardised formats and formulaic phrases in academic writing (S2).
By the New Kingdom period, the writing of commemorative graffiti on sacred temple and tomb walls flourished as a unique genre of literature, yet it employed formulaic phrases similar to other genres.
In other words, formulaic phrases should be expected to show relatively high word transition frequencies, whereas non-formulaic phrases should show very low word transition frequencies.
The use of common, formulaic phrases is a substantial component of melodic intonation therapy.
