The story looks really lightweight and paint-by-numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [MORE SPEED RACER TRAILERNESS (UPDATE)] Reference

Don't expect any surprises, total paint-by-numbers filmmaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2003] Reference

What do you think they did on their dates, play paint-by-numbers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Midnight Whispers] Reference

Just an unfunny cartoon painted with words, on a paint-by-numbers template.    From Wordnik.com.  ["How to write a bogus trend story..."] Reference

It is to some extent Weird Al-ien, but without his paint-by-numbers approach.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'll go outside and get some leaves and pretend to be a tree..."] Reference

Yet another rather pedestrian, paint-by-numbers episode of Smallville last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference

It's almost a paint-by-numbers illustration of how a healthy ecosystem should work.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference

Our intention is not to suggest paint-by-numbers plotting or to limit authors' scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historicals, Should Be You Know, Historical] Reference

Confusing as it is, it left the reader with the same paint-by-numbers feel as the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Etan Bednarsh: I'm Upset with Archie Andrews and It's Why Some on the Left are Upset with President Obama] Reference

Still, "" Godzilla '' is toweringly mediocre, its characters and plot paint-by-numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lizard Leaps From Tokyo To Hollywood] Reference

But to the rest of us they're a paint-by-numbers team that never goes outside the lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Patriots make stellar NFL feat a humdrum event] Reference

Marc told me of some similar struggles writing "paint-by-numbers," step-driven tech books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell Shaw: What My Friend Who Died Today, Taught Me About Life] Reference

In the paint-by-numbers world of the BBC Israel is now the only member of the axis of evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Driven out by the Wall] Reference

It feels less like a long-term vision for the party and more like paint-by-numbers pragmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope for the Democrats: How-To for the Hustings] Reference

The latest issue of Time magazine features a paint-by-numbers portrait of Sarah Palin on its cover.    From Wordnik.com.  [PHOTOS: Sarah Palin, Magazine Cover Queen] Reference

Is there a service where I can upload a photograph and have a paint-by-numbers kit mailed in return?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask MetaFilter Roundup | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

There's no paint-by-numbers road to success, and no ten easy steps to follow that will make you succeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Ragogna: Wednesday Windfall: Conversations with KISS' Gene Simmons, Brian Culbertson and The Weepies] Reference

Warner Bros has released a movie trailer for, what appears to be yet another paint-by-numbers glossy romcom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valentine’s Day Movie Trailer | /Film] Reference

I really like mid-century vintage, so I have a lot of 50's Asian figurines, paint-by-numbers paintings, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections - SpouseBUZZ] Reference

It's like the Dem party is made up of autistic candidates following the advice of paint-by-numbers political amateurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shrum: I Worried That I'd Look Left-Wing If Edwards Voted Against Iraq War] Reference

Romney and Thompson, meanwhile, are fighting over who is the most conventional, paint-by-numbers conservative circa 1987.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Review endorses Romney | SorenDayton.com] Reference

These are created with vintage LP's and some cool vintage paint-by-numbers some painted, some not I scored at Garage sales!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crafted...] Reference

The patriotic flag-waving of those days managed to temporarily obscure the reality that his was a paint-by-numbers response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Cesca: The Myth of Bush As The Hero of 9/11] Reference

Yet somehow these campaigns invariably descend into a paint-by-numbers litany of personal attacks and stratospheric promises.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference

He at first refused, displaying the sort of high dudgeon I imagine Picasso would show if asked to complete a paint-by-numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Fusion] Reference

The bank robbery is fairly paint-by-numbers, and the blind character is one we've seen many times before, despite Daniels's charisma.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Interview. Scott Frank, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode.] Reference

With this "vaudevillian" song the band wanted to assert that "this wouldn't be a paint-by-numbers Hold Steady record," says Mr. Kubler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holding On] Reference

Dozens of adults from community groups and youngsters from Wrexham schools coloured 82 vinyl tiles to make the paint-by-numbers portrait.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Largest Mona Lisa in the World] Reference

Bandslam is a clichéd, hackneyed, overdone, montage-filled paint-by-numbers tale of teenage angst, love, lessons about life, and triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Bandslam” a cute, trite trainwreck » Scene-Stealers] Reference

In the back seat a paint-by-numbers version of The Last Supper, a wedding present he's giving some college friends, slid from side to side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandy the Dandy] Reference

Not even the ever so cool Simon Baker is enough to get this TV Addict to tune into yet another paint-by-numbers CBS procedural crime drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Early Look at Fall TV 2008: TUESDAY | the TV addict] Reference