Sentence examples for something of a formula from inspiring English sources
Something of a formula seems to be taking hold in the writing of plays about science, and you can feel it at work in "The Secret Order," a new play by Bob Clyman being staged through April 29 at the Ensemble Studio Theater.
This mash-up of clashing worlds and ways, folding the extraordinary into the everyday — Zorn has a sword, but he also has a cellphone — is, to be sure, something of a formula.
There is something of a narrative formula in Chua's book, the predictable eventual enlightenment about the things that count, insights gleaned when her own sister falls gravely ill and her younger daughter rebels with tell-tale troubling signs like chopping off her hair and flinging a glass to the ground in rage, in public no less.
MONZA, Italy — In what has become something of a habit in Formula One this season, the series served up yet another race with significant and intriguing stories, plots and subplots.
Well, there's something to the idea of a formula taking you far, and no more is that so than on The Apprentice.
This was a widespread conviction among French citizens of Muslim origin, but it found little echo in the French press during the weeks after the massacre, when the slogan "Je Suis Charlie," which began as an expression of solidarity, became something of a test of loyalty — a "ritual formula," as the sociologist Emmanuel Todd has argued.
But the approach was something more than a formula.
Great acting is always, almost by definition, something of a mystery, a blend of technique and instinct for which no identifiable formula exists.
Frankly, the quiffy honey-monster panders to formula so strongly nowadays that it's become something of a chore to track-skip through his records.
It sounds like one hell of a formula.
