Nexum was a form of mancipatio, a symbolic transfer of rights that involved a set of scales, copper weights, and a formulaic oath.

Combellack argues further, and here he makes his main point, that once The Iliad and The Odyssey are thought formulaic poems composed for an audience accustomed to formulaic poetry, Homeric critics are deprived of an entire domain they previously found arable.

Other theories of origin are compatible with the formulaic theory: Beowulf may contain a design for terror, and The Iliad may have a vast hysteron-proteron pattern answering to a ceramic pattern produced during the Geometric Period in pottery.

An analysis of the structure and vocabulary of the Iliad and Odyssey shows that the poems contain many formulaic phrases typical of extempore epic traditions ; even entire verses are at times repeated.

Formula fiction should not be confused with pastiche ( the mimicking of another work or author's style ), though the latter by its nature may include elements of the former ; the same holds true of some parody and satirical works as well, which may well include formulaic elements such as common stereotypes or caricatures, or which may use formulaic elements in order to mock them or point out their supposedly cliché or unrealistic nature.

At the time, most U. S. commanders at lower levels had little or no combat experience of any kind ; without the input of experienced British or Allied combat officers on the nature of modern warfare and enemy tactics, many of them resorted to formulaic training methods emphasizing static defense and orderly large-scale advances by motorized convoys over improved roads.

When I was a little kid, and I was reading these comics in the ' 40s, I kind of got sick of them because after a while, they were just formulaic.

The songwriters of this era wrote formulaic songs, many of them sentimental ballads.

Many of them deride the company style for being highly formulaic and largely oriented towards a children's audience, with none of the artistic ambition or sophistication that the previous management strove for.

He followed his own prescriptions, and some critics feel that formulaic approach made the Vance novels stilted and caused them to become dated in a relatively few years.

" As such, it returns to the formulaic version of humans in monster disguises, rather than the real monsters and ghosts of the prior four direct-to-video films ( or the 1980s versions that preceded them ).

Most of them are formulaic and have the following layout ( but with a wide improvisional variety ), and often involving interaction with the audience:

This is another way in which Stoppard sends up the conventions of the genre, highlighting the fact that the crimes are so formulaic, anyone could simply slip straight into them and nothing would change.

Trouser Press describes them as ' one of America's finest and least formulaic roots-rock combos '.

The left loathed them for being allegedly ‘ anti-revolutionary ’ and ( therefore ) ‘ slanderous ’, mainstream critics dismissed them as formulaic and lackluster, tendentious to the point of being topical.

While somewhat formulaic ( Occhi Blue very closely resembles Se Tu Vuoi, as one example ), the original songs had plenty of fresh ideas, some of them similar to the works of Highland's fellow German group, Lesiëm.

The songwriters of this era wrote formulaic songs, many of them sentimental ballads.

Among the loudest of those who insist the magazine is no longer funny are supporters of Harvey Kurtzman, who had the good critical fortune to leave Mad after just 28 issues, before his own formulaic tendencies might have become obtrusive.

Even those lines of which the parts happen not to recur in any other passage have the same formulaic character, and it is doubtless pure chance that they are not attested elsewhere.

“ Canadian author Bakker's impressive, challenging debut, the first of a trilogy, should please those weary of formulaic epic fantasy.

Hence, those 40 years suggest more strongly than can any set of formulaic tests that few individuals, whatever their system of beliefs, are likely to have understood the monument as amounting, in any significantly detrimental way, to a government effort to favor a particular religious sect, primarily to promote religion over nonreligion, to " engage in " any " religious practic ," to " compel " any " religious practic ," or to " work deterrence " of any " religious belief.

Swanson felt it too formulaic and decided to call upon director Raoul Walsh who was signed with Fox Film Corporation at the time.

In the formulaic plots common to many of the films, two women vied for the affection of the bodybuilder hero: the good love interest ( a damsel in distress needing rescue ), and an evil femme fatale queen who sought to dominate the hero.

By contrast, in an essay titled " Angles in America ", Lee Siegel wrote in The New Republic, " Angels in America is a second-rate play written by a second-rate playwright who happens to be gay, and because he has written a play about being gay, and about AIDS, no one — and I mean no one — is going to call Angels in America the overwrought, coarse, posturing, formulaic mess that it is.

They said that both screenplays were the work of writers who used common formulaic elements.

The Acts of Union 1707 came in the middle of the long period of supremacy in London of Sir Godfrey Kneller, a German portraitist who had eventually succeeded as principal court painter the Dutch Sir Peter Lely, whose style he had adopted for his enormous and formulaic output, of greatly varying quality, which was itself repeated by an army of lesser painters.

The film opened to positive reviews with The Hindu noting that " Suriya shows that be it a performance-oriented role or a formulaic concoction he can deliver ", while Sify. com stated " Ultimately it is Suriya who carries the film to the winning post.

Chalga also faces heavy criticism from artistic circles who see it as an unworthy genre of music that cheapens music and creativity, replacing it with a formulaic and predictable music with often stolen music from other genres and lewd lyrics and draws the public away from more creative music.

Several elements in its narrative structure follow formulaic elements in the methodology that was formulated by Antti Aarne and his translator Stith Thompson ( the Aarne-Thompson classification system ) and by the earlier, more generalized method of Vladimir Propp, who used Russian folk tales.

Horror and other violent comics had come under scrutiny by moralizing parents, schoolteachers, clergymen, psychologists, and others who viewed the material as dangerous to the well-being of children and a significant contributor to the juvenile delinquency crisis in America ( although the formulaic nature of the books usually resulted in truly immoral characters receiving a well-deserved, if gruesome, comeupance.

In formulaic, often legalistic, language the tablets appeal to the deity, Sulis, to punish the known or unknown perpetrators of the crime until reparation be made.

Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.

The narrative structure allows for this diversity through simple stylistic devices such as the principle of ring composition, familiar since the time of Homer, in which the introduction and conclusion of a story or sub-plot is signalled by the repetition of some formulaic statement, facilitating the reader's comprehension of stories within stories in a kind of ' Chinese-box technique '— a structure that has no resemblance to the nine books artificially created by Alexandrian scholars.

Compared to other precepts, the Rule provides a moderate path between individual zeal and formulaic institutionalism ; because of this middle ground it has been widely popular.

One theory has been that he was concerned that if he was to abandon Joan, he might also lose Burgundy ; another theory suggests that his slightly " formulaic " love letters to his wife should be taken at face value, and that he was in fact very deeply in love.

Allen's formulaic and sensationalist writing style has been imitated by Neoist writer Stewart Home.

While enjoying decades of popularity, the series has been criticized for its perceived saccharine tone and formulaic storytelling.

The Berenstain Bears series has been called " syrupy ", " unsatisfying ", " infuriatingly formulaic ", " hokey ", " abominable ", and " little more than stern lectures dressed up as children's stories.

It has been criticized for being too slick and formulaic.

" The Fall of the House of Usher " has been criticized for being too formulaic.

The duo's material is known for containing influences of honky-tonk, mainstream country, and rock, as well as the contrast between Brooks ' and Dunn's singing voices and on-stage personalities, although some of their music has also been criticized as formulaic.

For Hellenistic scholars the Cyclic poets, the authors to whom the other poems were commonly ascribed, were νεώτεροι ( neōteroi " later poets "), and κυκλικός ( kyklikos " cyclic ") was synonymous with " formulaic ": then, and in much modern scholarship, there has been an equation between poetry that is later and poetry that is inferior.

For example, in Germany the term " coloratura " () has been applied to the stereotypical and formulaic ornamentation used in 16th ‑ century keyboard music written by a group of German organ composers referred to as the " colorists " ().

In shorter, more formulaic stories, his escape is generally enabled by some implement he has just purchased at the store-often while on an errand for his muskrat housekeeper, Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy.

Its books are considered low-brow and formulaic, although this has also been cited as one of the reasons for their success.

So formulaic that his output has been called " Elvis movies ," and a genre unto themselves.

Each psalm tone has a formulaic intonation, mediant ( or mediation ), and termination ( or ending ).

He says Meyvaert has “ satisfactorily explained ” that the layout of the runes suggest “ that the stone was already standing when the decision to add the runic poem was made .” The runic inscription on the monument is not a “ formulaic ” memorial text of the kind usually carved in Old English on stone.