Sentence examples for resorting to formulaic from inspiring English sources

On rare occasions, it also means resorting to formulaic phrasing.

Often he resorts to the formulaic summarizing sentence: "Though he had hardly left the arena, he was now unmistakably back in it," Meacham writes of Jefferson during Washington's second term.

Indeed, there is something formulaic about this novel, as if Mr. Ford wanted to find storytelling equivalents to what happened in his two earlier Bascombe novels and ended up resorting to a series of artificial situations.

Hence, the government is resorting to detainment.

I began resorting to defensive slice shots.

It is resorting to desperate measures.

So it is resorting to informal tools.

Resorting to binge eating, experiencing food cravings.

Resorting to violence of any kind.

With OftenType you can also store whole messages, under a 'Message' key, so if you're a formulaic texter you might be able to chain together a fair few snippets before needing to resort to any freestyle Qwerty.

I resorted to geometry.