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Fire-resilient buildings don’t have to be soulless, formulaic bunkers, according to the student designers of the Resilient Futures Lab, a summer studio at Pasadena’s ArtCenter College.

Ancient inscriptions tend to be formulaic so historians can often infer what the missing part of a sentence goes on to say.

Trainspotting's success came in part he says at a time when people were willing to read more challenging, less formulaic books.

Two of his victims took their own lives some years before the trial - a fact which he acknowledged in court with the same penitent but formulaic apology that he's offered to everyone else.

She’s gotten no explanation beyond that one, formulaic March 10 email dispatched to the university.