These were fairly predictable problems, yet he appeared not to have anticipated them at all. |
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The Tory revival is a phantom, the imagined product of a media despairing of another utterly predictable election result. |
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Sure as night followed day, Sunday would trail drearily into Monday, as the utterly predictable process of the working week began again. |
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Even their political persuasions are not as predictable as you might expect. |
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On the other hand Kildare were handsomely predictable as the early days of 2003 trickled by. |
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I think the WWE's heavy reliance on predictable storylines and HHH will be its downfall. |
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Routine infrastructure projects such as highway construction are said to have predictable and mitigable environmental effects. |
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What follows is very predictable for anyone who has ever seen a film about show business. |
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It was an unspoken assumption that we would make our choices from a certain set of predictable outcomes. |
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The conveniences of giving toasters, waffle irons or towels as bridal gifts are all too predictable and unoriginal these days. |
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The game remains faithful to the spirit of the book, but it is perhaps a little too linear and predictable. |
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Mobile's storyline is rather predictable and it's doubtful whether the show would work as a stage-bound, non-mobile monologue. |
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He's an easy target and they all laid into him with predictable criticism for being out of touch and old fashioned. |
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Every now and then, a project will come along that seizes my imagination and engages my brain but most of the time it's predictable and blah. |
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They have not lost at the ground in a league game in 11 visits, and won yesterday in a manner which has become monotonously predictable. |
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The more successful figurative works break loose of the predictable illustrational quality, which undermines many of the works on show. |
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Testing these ideas is hard, because anything that is precisely predictable is excluded from morphic resonance. |
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It's pretty predictable, but there is one phrase in the article that warms my heart. |
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Then, too, he is an acceptable moderator to the candidates because he's firmly predictable. |
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I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts. |
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Meanwhile coin tossing is in fact a predictable process following predefined physical laws of motion and isn't really random at all. |
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Others show predictable outcomes if dysfunctional patterns remain unaltered. |
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Unavoidably, given the author's identity, large stretches of My Stroke of Luck stray into predictable showbiz memoir territory. |
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Basically this is a fluffy romantic comedy, so it seems out of place to complain that it's predictable and unchallenging. |
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The power of peer pressure can be gauged by the automatic and predictable responses to challenges. |
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The remaining half hour contained a predictable level of domination from the league leaders. |
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This reaction was entirely predictable and understandable, albeit a bit extreme. |
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Exactly where the repercussions from that impact will take us is unforeseeable but the general direction is predictable. |
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There had been a rapid succession of presidents and the peso was about to be unhitched from the dollar, with predictable results. |
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They were idiotic, pathetic, short-sighted and unimaginative, but at least they were predictable. |
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They're hackneyed and thus utterly predictable, yet they still manage to be largely unintelligible. |
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But, no, that director and his writers are satisfied to churn out the standard, predictable slop. |
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The lyrics intermittently scan as clunkily as the predictable doggerel people send in to newspapers' obituary sections. |
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The questions by now were boringly repetitious and predictable, but they had to be answered, patiently, honestly, candidly. |
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There is something depressing about a lifestyle casualty, someone whose boozing and smoking bring about the actuarially predictable consequences. |
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Almost of the untoward things going on right now were absolutely predictable and unpreventable once we launched the war. |
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It's all so predictable and narky I'll keep going with your emails, which get better every day. |
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Our results show distinctive and predictable temporal patterning to epizootic rabies occurring among raccoons at the level of counties. |
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Characters thus afflicted may be realistic but they are also tiresomely predictable in their cravenness. |
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For that money I'd choose a Mini Cooper S. It was okay on smooth roads, but not as predictable as you would like on rougher roads. |
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In each episode, a pre-teen would chaperone the issue du jour through the prescribed format to a predictable conclusion. |
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It is the classic adversary system which overlaps with a two-party system, and the arguments and votes are often predictable. |
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There are some decent frights here, but ultimately everything feels far, far too predictable. |
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The comedic cut scenes are as regular as clockwork and often as predictable. |
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When he wasn't soloing there was too much vamping and unimaginative and predictable harmonic progressions. |
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They cannot borrow money from the bank for a bridge loan because the payment schedule isn't predictable enough. |
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The fit is more predictable, thanks to consumer research that has simplified most of the women's pants designs into modern and classic styles. |
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Making the system even worse are media bookers who want predictable, preferably partisan views. |
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Despite a predictable script, Jugnot is still able to play an immensely sympathetic character without being cloying. |
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I have read the predictable rantings of those who go on about queue jumpers and the fact that these people are not really oppressed. |
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Why is everyone getting into such an excitable lather over the predictable remarks of a no-mark? |
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Stalls are typical and predictable with power on or off and sufficient warning buffet to prevent surprises. |
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It's easy to guess the inevitable response because people are genuinely predictable. |
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American Beauty swept the board, a triumph of thoughtful, provocative cinema over Hollywood's usual predictable bilge. |
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The disappearance of this revenue source has had its predictable effect on financial figures. |
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The outcome of the Butler Report may have been predictable but it's remarkable nonetheless. |
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Despite predictable whinges from Spain's intellectual elite, he supported Aznar's crackdown on ETA terrorists and their political allies. |
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The importance of the active non-proliferation strategy should grow in a stable and predictable world order. |
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But despite all her highly charged sexuality, she's a rather pallid character with predictable sensibilities. |
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I actually found all of the characters tremendously superficial and predictable in a lot of ways. |
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Ashley Judd, the youthful Vivi, whoops it up with the sisters in one of the predictable flashbacks from Divine Secrets. |
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The songs rarely follow predictable formulas, falling into one another by means of eerie instrumental transitions. |
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The fare is predictable, well prepared and reasonably priced, and the service is speedy and helpful. |
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Political conventions have become distressingly routine and disturbingly predictable. |
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After the initial novelty wears off, the bonus rounds become quite predictable. |
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The mother-of-one is equally prepared for predictable praise directed at her. |
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So to toughen resolve and get US consumption, production and employment back on a more predictable track, they have gone for broke. |
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Joking aside, The Lizzie McGuire Movie may sound predictable and half-baked, but it is a surprisingly good film. |
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I get depressed and frustrated when debates get bogged down in predictable rigid left-right ritual stand-offs. |
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Limpets can alternate between suction adhesion and gluing in a predictable pattern that corresponds with their activity and the tides. |
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Other relatively predictable adaptations are the development of an obtuse angle between the scapula and coracoid and the loss of the furcula. |
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The result was a supply chain with too many peaks and valleys and attendant shortages and overages, rather than a steady and predictable stream. |
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The result is reserved, predictable hard rock that never gets out of first gear when it should be in overdrive. |
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More predictable from that medium is an extended segue dedicated exclusively to wining. |
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Assisting the caregiver in establishing a predictable routine for the patient is helpful. |
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It is not being wise after the event to say Northampton's decline was predictable. |
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Sorry, but Bugs was a one-dimensional, predictable rabbit who had not a redeeming bone in his entire scrawny body. |
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It's been a year of predictable stoushes and controversies that seem to have come out of nowhere. |
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Since impairment depends on market values, it will be much less predictable than straight-line amortization based on acquisition price. |
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Our progress on these 3 key elements might be considered predictable because much of the work is structural in nature. |
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Resource constraints meant that this recommendation was not followed, with predictable consequences. |
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Even if the story is on predictable lines, music and dialogue impart the momentum. |
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Dynamic duo Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson return for some more high jinks in this entertaining if fairly predictable action comedy sequel. |
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In the Heine settings, Schubert's musical imagery becomes wilder, even less predictable. |
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One is a predictable and unfulfilling entanglement with a South African woman. |
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Lest this seem like the predictable rhetoric of those in high dudgeon, consider the undertones. |
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If a crowd of random walkers starts from the same point, the pattern of dispersal of the crowd is predictable. |
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Your course is entirely predictable and can be anticipated by the predator. |
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That the situation has been intensified by wrangling over equipment is, however, entirely predictable. |
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It was the only surprise in an otherwise predictable annual awards ceremony announced this weekend. |
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What if something we take for granted, something utterly predictable, suddenly became unpredictable and chaotic and disordered? |
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The error lies in assuming that the syntax is the domain of the fully regular and predictable. |
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Even programmes such as Coupling, a laddish show loosely based on Friends, tread a predictable path, well within acceptable limits. |
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Refactoring, a process of simplifying code in an almost algebraic way, is guided by rules and leads to a predictable result. |
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Still, it wasn't unusual for a typical pattern to arise, almost yawningly predictable. |
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These are classic thriller plotlines, recycled time and again to what is often yawningly predictable effect. |
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If there's been anything predictable about the Emmys recently, it's that they're not always predictable. |
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I guess it's fairly predictable that I would instantly fall in love with a song that has such an expressive title. |
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A virtual initiation rite in postwar Italy, this is Domenico's chance to yoke himself to secure, predictable manhood. |
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In a meaningful election, the outcome isn't predetermined or entirely predictable. |
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This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly. |
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He is not predictable, he seldom repeats himself, but he constantly surprises. |
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It's May again and the daffodils rear their predictable sunny, yellow heads. |
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The rationale behind testing is the standardisation of education, the production of predictable and replicable outcomes in the classroom. |
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Objects are very poor at providing predictable and reproducible software behavior. |
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Line was standard 15 lb monofilament so that the drag of the line was predictable in the conditions. |
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The early chapters are a little confusing perhaps, and the ending is a tad predictable. |
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The plot is twist-heavy, and banks a lot of its punch on the big reveal at the end, which, while satisfying, is hugely predictable. |
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In addition, physicians may not anticipate predictable side effects of narcotics and may not educate their patients about them. |
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Organizations that operate in strongly competitive markets cannot take an approach based solely on plans that anticipate a predictable future. |
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We fail to plan for the worst and then act shocked when eminently predictable crises occur. |
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These characteristics result in a more prolonged and predictable anticoagulant effect and less bleeding. |
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They have a more predictable anticoagulant effect and cause less thrombocytopenia. |
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This was to allow it to match its pension fund liabilities with more predictable bond earnings. |
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The development of a plant depends on the generation of diverse cell types arranged in predictable patterns. |
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Until recently, ocean scientists believed that waves acted only in regular, predictable patterns. |
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The existence of apoplastic bypasses means that the extent of dilution of the solute by increasing transpiration flux is not always predictable. |
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As a Taurus, you favour the predictable and organised side of Saturn to the freewheeling nature of Jupiter. |
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Nevertheless, handling is predictable for such a large vehicle with its 75 litre fuel tank and huge 7.5R16 tyres on steel rims. |
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It's not the most predictable ending, and it's certainly a frustrating one, but it has far too much of the ring of truth about it. |
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The one twist in this otherwise predictable apology for capitalism is the draping of Marx in the clothes of capital. |
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The iliac apophysis ossifies in a predictable fashion from anterolateral to posteromedial along the iliac crest. |
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By comparison, the roast cod on puy lentils was more predictable and disappointing. |
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Warfare under the Newtonian paradigm is deterministically predictable, as effects are in principle calculable from their underlying causes. |
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Salads tend to be fairly predictable but this one really tickled the tastebuds as well as lining the stomach. |
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A pub crawl is a highly predictable event where you know beforehand exactly which pubs you're assaulting. |
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A predictable cut-price sale back to the City Ground ended a long nightmare. |
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So how disappointing, how gloomily predictable, that the proposed new footbridge is being greeted with the usual grumbling hostility. |
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The piece is pretty and roguish, but is never anything more than predictable. |
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Oil consumption by modern industrial society will draw down current and potential supplies in a predictable way. |
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The will, probated in Sweden, survived the predictable contest from unhappy relatives, but there were other problems. |
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Sure, you can see the conclusion coming, but most movie romances are predictable in that way. |
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Collectively though, these blue chip stalwarts with their predictable, regular custom should not disappoint at current prices. |
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The wing is so predictable and the gear so forgiving that it may be the easiest-landing airplane in general aviation. |
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The difficulty of estimating road traffic is well known, and predictable problems arise in the Chester context. |
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A formulaic plot, predictable storyline, and a slow beginning hurt what in some places is a nice suspense thriller. |
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You don't want it to become formulaic, and you don't want it to become predictable in any way. |
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In contrast, Jupiter-family comets tend to have predictable, well-determined orbits with short periods and low inclinations. |
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This was the only airspeed that provided a predictable and constant level of yaw that I could counter with full rudder. |
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I dislike the music, find the plots to be asinine and chauvinistic, and hate the predictable and unrealistically cheerful endings. |
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A predictable response, retort media analysts, who believe that the loss-making business can no longer be sustained. |
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With servicing and maintenance paid for in advance, the cost of running the vehicle each year becomes much more predictable. |
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Grunion runs occur at predictable times and dates associated with the highest night-time tides from April to July. |
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Too bad they loused it up with predictable plot elements and assorted screwball humor. |
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Its lethargic pace and surprising lack of experimentation render it a boring and predictable lowlight. |
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If people could decipher the signs that foretold events, the events would be predictable and humans could act wisely. |
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The peace of her early childhood was shattered by the entirely predictable arrival of awkward and gawkish hormones. |
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Who knew dated music, predictable gags, audience participation, gaudy costumes and blinding colours could be this much fun? |
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What we cannot rely on any more is solidly predictable attendance at uninteresting concerts. |
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The fundamental premise of the report is that violence is both predictable and preventable. |
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They may as well have called it deep six, because the film plummeted into a predictable pastiche of previous potboilers. |
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All of the fight scenes follow a predictable course, with little or no surprises. |
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Though the arrangements are predictable, Staton's versatile voice is a revelation. |
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Even minutes later, I cannot believe I posted this unbelievably predictable, sappy question. |
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As usual, the awards were a mixture of the predictable and the utterly surprising. |
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It was part of my intellectual snobbery to avoid the obvious and predictable wherever possible. |
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The boys, Kevin and Fred, both predictable to a tee, settled for the Chicken Tikka Masala. |
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The music was obvious and predictable, and the lyrics were about as feeble as I've ever heard. |
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Flight paths are impossible to mine, and aircraft follow less predictable routes. |
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Rigidity in the labour market, wage-induced inflation and tardiness in technological adaptation were the predictable results. |
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The tragedy is made all the worse because genocide is both predictable and preventable. |
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Generosity is so far removed from the predictable, petty, gruesome dance of blow and counterblow, that it can cause parties to stop and think. |
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Wading usually is easy over a gravel bottom of predictable depth and flow, with ample room for backcasts. |
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His policy of managing expectations has had its predictable, corrosive effect. |
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Many people might think that computers will always be predictable, since all they ever do is follow a program. |
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Its rigid structures and processes and predictable ways might stymie his unethical scheming. |
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An estimated 50 billion of the 200-400 billion birds on the earth make predictable seasonal movements between the temperate zone and the tropics. |
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As is predictable in a 30-year-old print, we spot occasional damage and flaws here and there. |
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As a film, Cinderella Man is terribly weak, thoroughly sentimental and predictable. |
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The news has been greeted with predictable dismay by the Irish branch of the Eurovision body. |
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The characters were often predictable and the dialogue almost wrote itself. |
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Examples of known predictable liver toxins are the cleaning solvent carbon tetrachloride and the pain killer acetaminophen. |
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The album avoids being banal and predictable because he is not afraid to fully use his voice to emote. |
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It doesn't really say anything new and tells its story in the most banal and predictable manner possible. |
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McEwan, one of the most bankable names in contemporary world literature, never goes in for the obvious or predictable narrative. |
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It began to read like a predictable novel, except that the baddies always seemed to win. |
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The Welsh-based former London Scottish man was always reliable, but predictable. |
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There has been a predictable response from some quarters that the plan would be a violation of civil liberties. |
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The impact of dehydration on the cardiovascular and thermoregulatory systems is quite predictable. |
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The models are detailed, but uninteresting lines, flat colors, and predictable pans render them pointless. |
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The plot is predictable, although the characters are a little less sweet than you might expect. |
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The description of their honeymoon voyage on a third-class train in India is a predictable Orientalist travelogue. |
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And before modern lighting, convenors of meetings chose dates with predictable moonlight, to help participants on their way. |
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For the rest, the end is predictable but the initiative is always in the hands of Hamid. |
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They observe all the rules and expect others to do likewise, and can be very predictable. |
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The predictable jeering began as he collected the ball from a throw-in and cut inside the penalty area. |
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The votes were reasonably predictable with a majority plumping for favourites France. |
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As the predictable plot plods onward, the viewer will sink further and further into despair. |
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Nevertheless, slang items often diverge from standard usage in predictable ways, especially by generalization and melioration. |
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But in the realm where corporate aviation intersects politics, predictable battlelines are drawn. |
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The exhibition included predictable scenes of patients cowering pitifully in gloomy, overcrowded asylums. |
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They may also be good for electronic devices because they are semiconducting and more predictable in their electronic properties. |
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The key to producing consistent and predictable sales numbers is creating, growing, and nurturing a healthy sales pipeline. |
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He was always so predictable, and now he was behaving completely out of character. |
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Looking back, he sees his reaction as sadly predictable after years of psychological bullying. |
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It is the dreary, predictable and inevitable question, one to which we have become accustomed. |
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Less predictable, however, was the special appearance by a token white girl for some gratuitous booty shaking. |
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Furthermore, the annual coupons of corporate bonds are more predictable and often higher than the dividends received on common stock. |
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A scientific theory of IR leads us to expect states to behave in certain predictable ways. |
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There was a time when guests and callers were moderate and predictable in their comments. |
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Calling the tendency toward top-heaviness predictable in organizational behavior may be an exaggeration. |
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And sometimes its necessary to venture beyond the comfort zone to risk the road less planned and predictable. |
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Babies are not machines and cannot be programmed how and when to behave and they are not always predictable. |
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So, the art to urban driving, is being predictable, and being able to tell what other roads users are most likely to do. |
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Each time party leaders try to demonstrate their national-security toughness, they run into predictable difficulties. |
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Afterall, there was a shade of reassurance in the predictable, however dire that certain predictable may be. |
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This global engine leads to global wind patterns, with areas of predictable flow and areas of predictable calm. |
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This means that its falling action will not be direct or even predictable compared to a heavier object like a cannonball. |
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Next will be that perennial complaint by predictable hand wringers that children's toy advertising is a modern evil of biblical proportions. |
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With a task running with predictable timing, real-time memory for data transfer was needed. |
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It's been a predictable hot-ticket and, to my mind, a rather more surprising critical rave. |
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Very easy to hold and with a predictable line it is a match for any modern bias bowl. |
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College games prove to be more predictable than professional contests in the same sport. |
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A number of the stories are downers in which Faustian bargains of one kind or another produce predictable results. |
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Following an all too predictable cycle of the hyperactive 21st century, focus on the explosion was ephemeral. |
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The director's use of the usual romantic conventions made the film boring and predictable. |
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The predictable result was an accelerated degradation of the ecosystem. |
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While CBS is taking a gamble on a relatively unknown talent, to many critics this decision was all too predictable. |
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But the reasoning only made sense if the tumor grew in a linear, predictable way. |
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The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure. |
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A CDC that seems perplexed by the ABCs of containing a highly predictable outbreak. |
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Other bands might get away with this on intensity alone, but Harcourt's straightforward, predictable manner leaves his wan material desperately lacking. |
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The acting in the film is as predictable as the various denouements. |
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Its rack-and-pinion steering is nicely weighted and predictable. |
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Team Christie has greeted the committee's news with somewhat predictable gloating. |
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Everyone has fallen into the predictable roles of condemner, defender, and gleeful onlooker. |
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Weather is one of least controllable, and predictable, elements in our lives. |
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Instead, we get predictable gallery delineations and surface-skimming biographical details. |
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The results of such widespread lack of curiosity or interest in knowledge are as demoralizing as they are predictable. |
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He deserves credit for the strength of his denunciation, but his refusal was predictable. |
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These rights were guarded jealously, and one of the most predictable sights of a new reign was the procession of local worthies petitioning the king for their confirmation. |
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So does the image of a society with so ordered, predictable, and regular a daily round that the minutest deviation from routine constitutes a clue to the eagle-eyed sleuth. |
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Its topics are the predictable pop-culture bellwethers of the day, reheated into screechy mush. |
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In a sense they were more honest as well, naturally inspired where Change of Living seems built upon a tasteful if yawningly predictable record collection. |
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The dialectical view, built on the inevitable production of alterity and the necessarily differential structure of language, entails predictable consequences. |
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The camera follows riverbanks and tidelines with predictable regularity. |
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So far, so predictable, but its huge flanks are encased in a delicately ribbed translucent skin that scintillates arrestingly with both natural and artificial light. |
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The other, which was probably unintended though wholly predictable, has been to create a bureaucratic apparatus which has brought many strong men and women to their knees. |
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For beneath their predictable monographic typefaces, layouts, and apparatuses, these books are not as comprehensive and conventional as they might appear. |
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In the hands of a competent architect it can be an orderly process, but it rarely consists of a linear sequence of steps leading inexorably toward a predictable result. |
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Playing the foul-mouthed bad character will become as predictable and counter-intuitive as a playing a thousand Joeys. |
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Czerny's music is eminently playable, predictable and listenable to in the same sort of way that Vivaldi's is eminently playable, predictable and listenable. |
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Call it horror lite, or fright by numbers, but this sub-genre has become fairly predictable, even by the standards of a genre that often trades on meeting our expectations. |
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And what, in Miller's hoop dance, as she danced angular power and discipline to Bach's punctilious, predictable rhythm, was that arhythmical clicketyclacking? |
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Sure, it is atmospheric but it is also intensely predictable. |
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The gung-ho stimulators have leaned heavily on their faith in stable, predictable, and sizeable short-term Keynesian multipliers. |
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Despite the predictable salacious stories of Hollywood, the most explosive and emotionally affecting part of this book involves Eszterhas' father. |
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The new polio threat is a major and predictable consequence of war, just like shrapnel injuries and broken families. |
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The sign-up deadline for the Affordable Care Act has triggered a predictable series of jeremiads from the right. |
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I found it to be predictable and sappy and, worse, too long. |
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But the predictable rush to the partisan ramparts leads to situational ethics rather than constructive action. |
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Sleep deprivation resulting from multiple, erratic awakenings may produce a very different effect compared to controlled and predictable sleep deprivation. |
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Weary as Kate may be of the unrelenting focus on her womb, the fuss is entirely predictable in a hereditary monarchy. |
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Most stars in the Milky Way have humdrum lives, tracing slow predictable orbits around the galactic center. |
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Compared to Americans, Canadians are stereotyped as steady and predictable. |
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Utterly predictable, full of wooden acting and ringing with hollow family-values thematics, this is thoroughly banal and barely worth looking back on. |
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There were exceptions, as our instructor, Kimberlee Sue Moran, pointed out, but criminals behaved in mostly predictable ways. |
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But rising fees on bank accounts was a predictable effect of the interchange fee regulations. |
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The first, and most predictable, message addressed gender roles and signaled the pre-eminence of piety over power, submission over supremacy, and maternalism over masculinity. |
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In spite of being denied even the predictable weepy-eyed juvenile threnodies for the local TV news, many parents expressed disappointment with the school closure. |
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The algorithms ran their determined courses, and our thoughts followed one after another, as mechanical and as predictable as the planets in their orbits. |
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Energy in the body flows along predictable pathways called meridians. |
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The susceptibility of otherwise sane folks to End Times enthusiasms is odd but perhaps a bit predictable. |
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Nevertheless, the line lengths and meter can become predictable. |
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She said the drug bridge drew the predictable sensationalism from a press throng that took its drug use cues from tamer festivals. |
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Nick Clegg, the lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister, attacked the Conservatives for their predictable response to the report. |
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Where the vines have marked vigour, the bunches which hang below the leafy canopy are in shade, with predictable negative effects on wine quality. |
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If it has this much power, why is friendship so utterly in the shadow of romantic love, with its relatively predictable and well-trod narrative arch? |
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The Get Up Kids have never made any bones about being middle-of-the-road emo, but this is more boring and predictable than an episode of Gilmore Girls. |
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Jack also makes several pit stops along memory lane, as he reflects on the breakup of his marriage and the predictable romantic misadventures that led to it. |
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And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads. |
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The dessert list is predictable enough, with banana split, Mississippi mud pie and apple pie with ice cream, so we're not talking Anton Carome in the kitchen here. |
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Not so with those moderns whose primary scientific values are oriented to the predictable future, and who often relegate the past to, well, simply history. |
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It is now completely predictable and unproductive to any sober national-security debate. |
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When we came back, we were the second string and on a predictable calendar to rotate in and out of combat. |
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All names are lexical entries, in the sense that they are morphophonological patterns with a conventional meaning, which is not predictable from the meaning of their parts. |
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Alas, no predictable film noir classics with Bette Davis nor a camp singalong to The Sound of Music, but you'd be hard pushed not to find something tantalising in Glasgay! |
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Not much about Grimaud's career has been predictable or orthodox. |
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A predictable, inflation-adjusted minimum wage would make business planning easier. |
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All this has created an outpouring of national sentiment and a predictable flurry of eleventh-hour government initiatives. |
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Perhaps because our everyday choices are so limited and our creative impulses so stifled, we embrace the abnormal because everything else is so boringly predictable. |
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The approval is predictable, as is the use of the success of an unreconstructed social conservative to deride UK politicians for their refusal to enter the debate. |
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My big gripe with the old TV shows was their reliance on predictable formulas. |
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The judgment of fallen men is not unsearchable. It is predictable. |
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It has every predictable, nauseous feel-good film cliche in it. |
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Other predictable starters included focaccia topped with portobello mushrooms with pancetta and garlic as well as bruschetta with poached plum tomato, ricotta and basil pesto. |
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Cuomo was prepped and predictable, with not a phrase out of place, not a phrase that surprised. |
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It is important to separate LAN and SAN traffic to allow bulk data transfer to occur on the SAN without any affect from bursty, less predictable LAN traffic. |
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Such predictable cash flow is ideal for making regular payments on loans, which private equity firms typically use to finance part of their buyouts. |
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The blame, say critics, lies with the hackneyed, highly predictable plots. |
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So, instead of predictable fresh fruit salad, he dishes up a stunning lavender ice cream with walnut nougatine and home-made ices of green apple, mango and ruby grapefruit. |
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In the cold war, nuclear arms issues were considered a matter of rationality, an international chess match in which self and mutual interests were calculable and predictable. |
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An interesting piece, all in all, even if it is stalely predictable. |
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The owner of that dog said that it was harmless, which is predictable. |
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As happy as he and his wife are to be living in Paris, they run up against a predictable array of everyday bureaucratic troubles. |
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One such coalition in Oxford resulted in them being outflanked on the left by New Labour after the predictable round of compromises made because of budgetary restraints. |
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Attempting to contract with subhumans has predictable consequences, consequences that correspond exactly with attempts to contract with two-legged subhumans. |
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His surviving works are characterized by tunefulness and harmonic simplicity, though with an over-reliance on predictable if pleasing phrase structures. |
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Is a good film, although as predictable and cheesy as expected. |
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But it will not conclude with the predictable, upbeat Hollywood ending. |
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