Taking a well-worn formula, 24 Prince has given it some polish: comfort food in a comfortable setting with just a touch of downtown swagger that, despite yourself, brings you back for more.

The new plaza is a well-worn formula: museums, shops and a loftlike apartment complex, also designed by Mr. Libeskind, that are intended to manufacture an instantly vibrant street life.

The site's consensus is that "though it uses a well-worn formula, 17 Again has just enough Zac Efron charm to result in a harmless, pleasurable teen comedy."

If her screenplay adheres to well-worn dramatic formulas, it is a useful and informative guide to an ailment that is largely misunderstood.

Having to work within well-worn formulas pumped out by her mediocre band prevented Ms. Tillery from scaling the heights of gospel enthusiasm she is obviously capable of reaching.

'Monsieur Ibrahim' Omar Sharif enjoys a late career comeback in François Dupeyron's "Monsieur Ibrahim," a genuine charmer based on a well-worn art-house formula.

Tom Dudzick's "Greetings" mixes crabby humor and holiday sentiment so deftly that one can almost forgive it for shamelessly manipulating a well-worn formula.

She wrote, "Admittedly, their angry outbursts (Safer To Hate Her) and cod-American drawling stick to a well-worn formula but it's one spiced up with ample punch, pop and prettiness".

Mr. Pinter has invested a well-worn formula with a gnawing, transforming sense of just how opaque people remain to one another.

And "Get Rich or Die Tryin' " is an awkward, sometimes engaging blend of two well-worn formulas.