He was predictable when it came to his gestures of kindness, putting down Dovid’s bullying in an instant or bringing home extra meals if he knew I hadn’t eaten. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The suit had been carefully tested in the laboratory, and it was safe against all predictable radiation levels. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Even though it would be boring? And predictable?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A place where time isn’t a straight, predictable line, but is more like a toddler’s knotted shoelace. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This creates an audible, predictable pulse that helps the musicians to coordinate what they are doing so that they sound good together. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Instead of emphasising the strong beats as the foot-tappingly predictable swing had done, bebop deliberately resisted, suspending the rigid reiteration of the regular pulse. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Unusual, because anytime my dad freaks out, it’s as predictable as a tax table, but this was something new. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The shells come patiently, each round whizzing over at a predictable interval, scratching a long scarlet parabola over the roof. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was as predictable as he was ugly, but Tyrion was hungry. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He remained convinced that romantic behavior was basically monotonous and predictable, and that therefore one could write a fairly straightforward formula that would predict the collision course of any two people. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It was gory work, Rat said, but predictable. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And naturally, it moves in a very predictable pattern. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The development is described in history books as regrettable but predictable, given the virulent racism that gripped the South and the political dynamics of the time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His attention network took on a predictable load as his performance imploded. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

With Deydey home, things were more exciting, things were more difficult, things were less predictable but somehow more secure. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed sort of equilibrium, with atoms and their particles scattered around in an amorphous muddle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Pythagoras’s day, before the age of zero, pure logic reigned supreme, The universe was predictable and orderly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everything we have learned in Outliers says that success follows a predictable course. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Although perhaps predictable for a little girl who needs her mommy. If you thought coming back here would dissuade me, you were wrong.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I'm sure my family in Iran wondered why I followed the same predictable script for every conversation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

If he could be with her, so extraordinarily beautiful and yet so ordinary, predictable and domestic and dedicated, then perhaps his life would start to seem believably his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The exact song or activity may vary, but the basic nature of the activity is the same and predictable. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That response is predictable because most people assume that racism, and racial systems generally, are fundamentally a function of attitudes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Human nature is both predictable and mysterious; prone to great and sudden advances, yet still mired in despicable self-interest. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, everything was predictable, the high-ceilinged rooms, with heavy, sashed windows, the oak wall panelling and the oak doors, and the oak staircase, the massive furniture. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Not unless she is imagined to be more than tired tropes and predictable clichés. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s duties at Daffodil Manor took on a rhythm that, while not soothing, was at least predictable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ridiculous how predictable some of these guys can be. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was this: you knew that Leon would always do the unexpected—wasn’t that being both predictable and unpredictable? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The way the world drives you from your home, sometimes. I just like a predictable world, but it hasn’t worked out that way for us or for them. Maybe for anyone...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was only three years old, but I knew right then that our calm, predictable life in Spring was about to change. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now, instead of flying in a predictable line, the Po-2s of the 46th Guards would fly in pairs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Yes, there were always the predictable kidnappings and summer love triangles, but a good show could always surprise you with something as simple as the discovery of an underground city. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mami’s blind enthusiasm is one of her more predictable and annoying qualities. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A lot of people would say that ending was predictable. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the absence of a truly egalitarian racial consensus, these predictable cycles inevitably give rise to new, extraordinarily comprehensive systems of racialized social control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

That woman had a devious mind that was only predictable when she scented an opportunity to vanquish her husband. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about pictures at the Art Institute that made her feel as if she could leave everything predictable behind. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They watched television, a drama, predictable and filled with brightly shot scenes, one of which featured a young girl in a short dress. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s so predictable that it’s hard to work up enthusiasm. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

First one way, then another, never falling into a predictable pattern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He quickly discovered that strings have a peculiar, yet predictable, behavior. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When I say, "Oh, that was so predictable," it sounds brainy and farsighted. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the terror of Peri-Urban, the lives of my family, neighbours and community continued to ebb and flow along a predictable, monotonous course. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The predictable response is that civil rights advocates are as committed to challenging mass incarceration and other forms of structural racism as they are to preserving affirmative action. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The sociologist’s view is that every race ends with a winner, so that winning is utterly predictable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The predictable response is: What about gangsta rap and the culture of violence that has been embraced by so many black youth? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But on the roads their interests were engines, and weather, and maintaining the speed that makes a predictable schedule possible. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to make the least predictable move. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the young priest in training, life at the monastery soon settled into a predictable routine. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Many herding peoples of Africa and Asia shift camp along regular seasonal routes to take advantage of predictable seasonal changes in pasturage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the history of science there is no simple solution to the apparently binary choice between radical contingency and predictable evolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, me, I figured my dad out—not my mom. My mom is the biggest mystery in the world. I mean, she’s predictable when it comes to parenting. But really, she’s inscrutable.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Because life sometimes isn’t all that predictable and because the human body is oftentimes the same way, Alma Ember and her husband Cabot Searcy did not have a baby as they’d planned. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We enjoyed swimming, until the mystery of tides was explained in such a way that the ocean seemed nothing more than an enormous saltwater toilet, flushing itself on a sad and predictable basis. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

With a little sense she could have avoided this whole evening, kept their life in Henry’s house as predictable and safe as her simple braid. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What he was saying was too easy, too predictable. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was what made shamblers so scary: even when they were predictable, they could still surprise you. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The ancients did refer to the ‘laws’ of nature when they wanted to say that nature is regular and predictable, but they never identified any particular scientific principle as a law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As weeks turned into months and the fighting continued, she fell into a predictable routine of daily chores and abolition work. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was joking with myself earlier, but now I’m wondering how it’s possible that I’ve stepped into the most predictable teen rom-com ever. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Filch’s expression of outraged disappointment was perfectly predictable; but why, Harry wondered, watching him, did Malfoy look almost equally unhappy? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It probably occurred to me around this time that the vision people hold of the world to come is but a reflection, with predictable wishful distortions, of the world in which they live. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

With a predictable routine and someone who knew how to cook. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Gerhard is so reasonable, so predictable, so resolute, always doing the right thing, obeying the law, even when he doesn't agree with it. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all the postmortem ratiocination, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that climbing mountains will never be a safe, predictable, rule-bound enterprise. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He went to museums, took long, predictable walks—and enjoyed family picnics. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were other people in the neighborhood who were noted for their bad tempers or downright meanness, but their actions were predictable. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing I like about Embryo is that not only is he predictable, he gets to the point. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You are so predictable,” Moss said, and his anger gave him the boldness he’d been looking for. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After its uncertain launch, its stolid reliability had become almost boring; the Crocker Lab seemed more like an industrial factory every day, so why not push past the boundaries of the predictable once again? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Charles discovered that this behavior is extremely regular and predictable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The predictable pattern of life made the rare moments of surprise especially memorable. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The predictable result of their alliance began to show within a few short months. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cepheid stars pulsate, getting brighter and dimmer in a very predictable way; the way they pulsate is closely related to how much light they put out. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If the universe is regular and predictable, this is not because there are internal forms but because God has imposed order upon it from the outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

From one point of view, the knowledge we end up with seems to be culturally relative, contingent, peculiar; from another it seems to be commonsensical, predictable, inevitable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We’ve got this down to a system, Natalie and I. In some ways she is very predictable, more like a clock than a human being. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many also admit that a predictable consequence of breaking up one drug ring is a slew of violence as others fight for control of the previously stabilized market. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Riddick could never see himself in that role—it was too pedestrian, too predictable, too empty of the juice of life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constance’s reaction, by now a predictable one, was to express irritation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If you make your film predictable, they'll make up their minds about it long before it's over. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push my cart away, toward the apples and pears of my adulthood, their nearly seedless ripeness predictable and bittersweet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

What is sure, predictable, inevitable—the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are as predictable as you were easy to beat, Artemis.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It made her predictable arid easy to lie to. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though it seems ludicrous to suggest that the outcome of the Fischer–Spassky match was predictable after only two games had been completed, one point going to each player, the case can be made. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His songs were meant to sound like up-market folk songs: immediately memorable, lyrically easily understandable and relatively predictable in shape. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I believe, on hunch, that an inventory of our major disease problems based on this sort of classification would show a limited number of important questions for which the predictable answers carry certainty. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That tactic is...somewhat effective, but you should always have a variety of moves in your repertoire. When you only have one, you become predictable and easy to defeat.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The teacher was unpredictable and yet predictable at the same time, which reasoning confused Brian because he wasn’t exactly a hotshot in the psychology department. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each pulse is a beat, and the regular, predictable pulse of a piece of music is the beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To a certain degree, if the world is orderly and predictable, it is because we have worked to make it so by developing technologies that give us control over nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Racial animus is a predictable and recurring feature of racial caste systems, but it is not necessary for the system to function if there is widespread racial indifference. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It went to a predictable place, and he missed her. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“I think you underestimate how predictable some things can be in a relationship.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The inside was even more surprising, less predictable, than the exterior. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sarai had never been so glad of the predictable monotony of life in the citadel as she was now. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“These are textbook examples. The devil is nothing if not predictable.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

From the time she first arrived at Darlington Hall right up until perhaps a month or so before that incident in my pantry, Miss Kenton's days off had followed a predictable pattern. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The predictable response from the casual observer is: well, how much further? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“No,” she says, as predictable as the dinnertime silence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don't know how I can tell my group therapy group about this weird development—however predictable it might have been. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now that she was doing something difficult and familiar and never quite predictable, namely lying, she felt a sort of mastery again, the same sense of complexity and control that the alethiometer gave her. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone waited for the inevitable and predictable response. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The value of the partial sums flips back and forth between 1 and 0; it’s not really heading to a predictable destination. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In this sense, even very rare events are quite predictable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But usually she was so predictable that even changing her logo seemed strange. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her responses, however harsh, were straightforward and predictable. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Days passed, and then weeks, and we simply walked through our same routines—predictable schedules disturbed only briefly that Sunday morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No research student could live in, and so the only predictable consequences of being a Jesus man were bills for a Ph.D. that I would never acquire. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The plane continued south for thirty seconds more, following the same pattern, familiar and predictable now, and McWatt, lifted a wing and banked gracefully around into his turn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way . . . the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some elements of the outcry, however, raise less predictable questions: Where does naiveté turn into ignorance, and then into racism? A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z

The show was reportedly inspired by an explicit YouTube video of a woman giving birth “in nature” that went viral last year, and it’s already drawing predictable controversy. “Born In the Wild”: Lifetime TV has lost its mind 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

If the improbable fairy tale was coyly predictable — really, who doesn’t love a happy ending? — neither Gilbert nor her publisher dreamed the book would become a cultural juggernaut. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Most of the time Ms. Stroman’s work, tediously formulaic as drama anyway, is at its most predictable in terms of rhythm. Dance Review: Ballet Meets Broadway Choreographers and Composers 2011-05-26T21:20:50Z

What matters here is not the predictable destination, but how we get there — and that the system is pumping loud, as LL Cool J once wisely said, a requirement Niegel Smith’s high-octane production fulfills. Review: A Student of the Classics, Hip-Hop Variety, in ‘Syncing Ink’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The court said that the bridge required constant maintenance unforeseen in Mr. Calatrava’s plans and that those problems were easily predictable given Venice’s well-known tourism problem. Star Architect Must Pay Venice Over Bridge Too Fragile for Tourists 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It’s all very predictable, and predictably well acted. Review: From Ireland, a Rebounding Lawyer and a Crusading Journalist 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

“Wish there was a convenience store near here,” someone complains as we’re picking our way around paving stones that were laid to make the path more predictable for tired feet and hooves. From Kyoto to Tokyo, along Japan’s ancient Nakasendo Way

Among the most popular additions to the dining scene in 2000, TenPenh was an antidote to all that was corporate and predictable that year. TenPenh review: A wide melting pot, with some ripples 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

For many, watching the Oscars is a yearly ritual; the glitz of the red carpet, the predictable award winners, the awkward presenters. Seven Things That Will Be Different about This Year?s Oscars Telecast 2012-02-24T12:00:02Z

I hope he deals with the predictable England wobbles better than me. The Zoo; Horizon: The Truth About Personality; England v Australia – TV review 2013-07-11T06:00:08Z

“Often people are scared of heritage, and then you end up with these dull, predictable things,” he said. Thomas Heatherwick Designs South Africa’s Newest Art Museum 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The Beatles part of the concert felt rather more typical and predictable, stretching from “I Saw Her Standing There,” to “Eight Days a Week,” to the “White Album” catalog of “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” McCartney Plays Apollo, His ?Holy Grail? 2010-12-14T13:05:08Z

Most of us conduct our relationships in somewhat predictable ways. Ask Amy: Long-lost loves don’t quite connect 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, it pads out the six hours of its first season with the predictable, calculated complications in the lives of the couple’s children and grandchildren. Television Review: Late-Life Romance in ‘Last Tango in Halifax,’ on PBS 2013-09-06T21:28:01Z

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the latest insane revelations were completely predictable. Perspective | Embattled and in over his head, Mark Zuckerberg should — at least — step down as Facebook chairman 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

These conditions will likely persist as the atmosphere warms and the climate continues to shift into less predictable and more extreme weather patterns. What’s for dinner? Protein — and its large water footprint 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

When she finally goes into labor, she is rushed to the hospital by Jack and Mark, who carry her through the streets and brave the predictable impediments — a traffic jam and a demonstration. Review: A Zany Renée Zellweger and Mystery Daddy in ‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

No structure stays solid or predictable on L’Rain’s second album, “Fatigue.” L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

There’s discipline in his work, but also something less predictable, an impetuous electrical current that powers his performances. This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

The headlines were predictable, if disheartening: “Maria Bello Comes Out as Gay,” “Reveals She’s a Lesbian in New York Times Piece” and “Comes Out as Bisexual.” First Person: Maria Bello: Partnerships, Love and Conversations, to Be Continued 2013-12-20T21:38:27Z

The story regains its footing toward the end, with a few nice, if predictable and derivative, payoffs. 'Earth to Echo,' an 'E.T.' knockoff, is pleasantly diverting 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

To some degree, current events have made “Gaslight” more topical but also more predictable. In a New Take on ‘Gaslight,’ a Heroine Finds Her Own Way 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

And Morris is a weirdly opaque young man, almost a parody of a hacker: brilliant, intense, possibly unstable — a far more obvious and predictable character than the real-life Edward J. Snowden. ‘The Director,’ by David Ignatius, a Novel About the C.I.A. 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

And with the advent of mass production — which, like clocks, relies on repetitive and predictable mechanisms — clocks became inexpensive commodities without making the passing of time seem any less dear. Museum Review: National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pa. - Review 2011-09-08T22:42:06Z

In fact, they have such predictable rhythm that you can sing them to the theme song for “Gilligan’s Island.” Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, there's an efficient but more predictable guitar-backed pop song, Seeing You Around, and a harmonica-backed reworking of the American folk standard Old Blue. Georgia Ruth: Week of Pines – review 2013-05-23T20:34:01Z

Making it a late-night downtown party doesn't mean a stodgier, more formal or more predictable show. Spirit Awards try to stay cool at corporate venue 2010-03-05T04:51:00Z

Like many public intellectuals who are worth reading, George Packer and Jonathan Rauch don’t toe a predictable line in American political and intellectual debate. Speaking Truth to Both the Right and the Left 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

It's ridiculous and predictable but also just a ton of fun, so you may as well give up and give in to your inner musical theater geek. Review: `Pitch Perfect' is infectiously catchy 2012-09-26T19:21:12Z

But there’s nothing schematic or predictable about the host of mother problems slinking around these pages. The trouble with the bad mother memoir 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Instead, she points out, other states were asked more predictable campaign year questions: Who do you support? Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z

When Chivers tried a similar experiment on men, they responded in predictable patterns: Straight men’s arousal soared when women were on-screen, and not very much at all when men were on screen. 9 reasons why female sexuality will overcome anything conservative pundits throw at it 2014-03-20T22:58:00Z

There are no less than six choreographers credited to Blaze, yet few have the structural or musical wit to go beyond predictable unison formations. Blaze | Theatre review 2010-03-17T21:30:00Z

It is somehow both completely predictable and jaw-droppingly shocking, a real “wow they really just went there” moment. Last Christmas may be the worst film of the year – so why is it box-office gold? 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

After a searching beginning, the piece quickly establishes its own logic, and the music’s interest lies not so much in its direction, which is predictable, as in the character of its motion. Music Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Opens the Tanglewood Festival 2013-07-07T21:57:38Z

Here are three: “The indigenous Mapuche peoples of South America hadn’t been treated well by new arrivals to their lands — a sentence so predictable it’s almost not worth typing.” Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

Inescapably, "Going the Distance" gets more flaccid and ordinary as it manages the highly predictable yuks emerging from Garrett and Erin's efforts to keep their relationship going across 3,000 miles of low-budget separation. "Going the Distance": Can Drew Barrymore save the rom-com? 2010-09-03T11:01:00Z

For decades, ski vacations followed a predictable pattern, and it went a little like this: pick a mountain, book accommodations, fly or drive to the resort, buy lift tickets, ski a few days, return home. Multi-Mountain Passes Upended the American Ski Trip. Here Are 9 Rules. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

The blooper-style moments that would be edited out of other shows become predictable beats in the formula of each episode. The Joys of Netflix’s “Nailed It,” the Baking Competition That Celebrates Kitchen Disaster 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Soon after they showed up, a Hilltop faction returned bearing a message from Negan in the form of a knife to Gregory’s gut, and the predictable mayhem ensued. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 11: The Hilltop Colony 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

In most instances, these artist-backed events tend to be far less mainstream and predictable than their splashier peers, making them destinations for fans tired of the usual suspects. The Quest for the Next Great Hip-Hop Festival 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The rise in popularity of craft beer is astounding, but also, in some ways, predictable. Here’s a timeline that explains how beer went from brilliant mistake to hipsterific 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

In the professional reviews, however, that unexpectedly varied network was replaced “by a far more predictable set of canonical touchstones.” ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: From David Foster Wallace to Bret Easton Ellis by Way of Faulkner 2011-09-27T18:08:13Z

Let’s also presume that in the fallout of such incidents like Trump’s racist tweets on Sunday, media organizations adopt predictable stances. The media's "Made in America" problem: Trump creates racist controversy, gets free campaign coverage 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's a likable film played with gusto and heart — though fundamentally a little sentimental and predictable. Cannes 2012: Reality ? review 2012-05-18T12:24:28Z

It's all completely predictable and yet it unfolds beautifully, with some extraordinarily affecting scenes among all the period-specific clementines. Call The Midwife Christmas special: a refreshingly sincere treat 2012-12-21T13:00:00Z

Top Gun III: The Kingdom of the Harvest Quickening – Part 3 of 3” – it arrives with a predictable set of strengths and weaknesses. Katniss meets the new boss: The Tea Party, the Bolsheviks and the “Hunger Games” finale 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The show's universal appeal is its pitch-perfect comic takes on predictable travel behavior, from impatience with slow-moving vehicles to Dad's exasperated threats to Pull This Car Over Right Now. 'Leaving Iowa': A slightly different take on father-son bonding 2012-05-31T20:23:12Z

Bragg should be applauded for choosing the form of a novel – scene of the universal – rather than the predictable particularities of the misery memoir to tell his tale. Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg – review 2013-05-19T11:00:03Z

But the music soon settled into predictable patterns, with Ms. Barton’s lines soaring lyrically, while piano and cello traded the same arabesque motifs. Review: Jamie Barton Shows That She’s a Powerhouse of a Mezzo-Soprano 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

These last two episodes were so unbelievably.....predictable!! ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

At his funeral in 1994, statesmen uttered some predictable banalities, but those meretricious words registered only because they conspicuously omitted or masked so much. Was Richard Nixon a Tragic Hero? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

For another, that artworks have literal, direct and easily predictable effects. The Zero Dark Thirty Argument: Why Deceptive Art Can Be Great 2012-12-11T16:10:11Z

As reported by The New York Daily News: The response is predictable given Trump’s charismatic personality, his simplistic solutions to complex problems, and the authoritarian beliefs of today’s conservatives. Donald Trump’s “Death Wish” fantasies: Guns, white vigilantism, and the right’s toxic masculinity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Both of them are more musical than me, and I felt embarrassed to always offer up the most predictable note, the vanilla pop chord; never finding an exotic minor triad like they did. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

People get numb to anything that is predictable. Shepard Fairey: Have we lost the 'street' in street art? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z

A bit of a groaner, and predictable too. Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z

If the Razzies are predictable, it’s because they prefer simply to ratify popular impressions of failure rather than single them out for the first time. The man behind the Razzies: 'Brian de Palma had no talent' 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Not much care is exhibited here in tying the strands of the story together, as evidenced by the predictable resolution of assorted events in guns and blood. ‘Totalitarians’: Woolly takes a risk and stumbles badly with a murky political satire

It’s amusing enough, if predictable, and the actors attack their various tasks with aplomb, slipping fluidly between characters and vignettes and making good use of their kneepads. | 'Paris Syndrome': Ex.Pgirl?s Clash of Cultures at Here Arts Center 2010-06-13T21:56:00Z

But it’s also possible that Ms. Streisand’s political ideas were simply predictable and boring, always tiresomely delivered to a crowd of the already converted — of what Fran Lebowitz once called “the religious left.” Review: How Streisand Became a Symbol, by Neal Gabler 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

But while such preciousness is predictable, it’s not without charm. Bo?te: The Wren, a Gastropub in the East Village 2012-02-08T21:25:43Z

Is there not a way to probe these same ideas using richer, more precise, less predictable language? Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

And when Mr. Obama told Rolling Stone last month that he had Lil Wayne on his , the conservative backlash was as swift as it was predictable. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z

Lovett’s characterization is wooden, his plot alternately predictable and faintly preposterous. Book review: ‘First Impressions,’ by Charlie Lovett

The answer is predictable, being the one that opens the door to the possibility of a long-running television series. Review: With ‘Good Behavior,’ Lady Mary Takes a Lowlife Turn 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z

Not to knock adolescent creativity, but most teenagers seek attention in fairly predictable ways: they are bad and, if that doesn’t work, they are notoriously bad. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Who among us hasn't engaged with a story that has no predictable ending, with a half-truth that, upon further examination, is more fiction than fact? Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

And this was one example of Emmy’s attempt to balance legitimately great choices that also made history with frustrating old habits that make it entirely, boringly predictable. "The Handmaid's Tale," "Veep" take top prizes at the 2017 Emmys 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

If the show is not as funny as you want it to be, that’s partly because the central joke is so predictable. The Tears (and Fears) of a Clown 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The devastation was predictable, said Oliver – “I know that, because we literally predicted it, but even I didn’t see some of this coming.” John Oliver on Trump's border wall: 'Stupider than I thought was possible' 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Day, who once dismissed her “goody two shoes” image as “so boring”, isn’t necessarily predictable. ‘Age is just a number’: Doris Day turns 95 – two years earlier than planned 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The recycling of the hides is admirable, the recycling of Warhol predictable. Art in Review: BRIAN JUNGEN 2011-09-29T21:49:00Z

For Cyril Phan, the French graffiti artist known professionally as Kongo, a recent project posed a less predictable obstacle than, say, staying dry while painting on the side of a building in the rain. Tattoo and Graffiti Artists Add Their Flair to Watches 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

But for those who do, this mass dosage of unusual offerings is a respite from the glut of predictable Hollywood dross. Fantastic Fest 2016: cannibals, floating heads and Dolph Lundgren 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But at least its argument for itself is simple, like the case for living in a warm climate: Who cares if the forecast is predictable if it’s this sunny? Review: In Fox’s ‘Rosewood,’ a Cocky Crime Pathologist in Sultry Miami 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

His choices have always been interesting, but rarely have they been predictable. Beyond the Winter Soldier: Sebastian Stan has always played roles that exist outside the binaries 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

So when the end finally materializes, it is like finally coming face to face with a horrifying and yet entirely predictable demon. How to survive a divorce: find acceptance after falling apart 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

To his credit, Mr. Auburn, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Proof,” avoids both of those predictable outcomes, although embers of affection do eventually glow, and there is a mention of a gun. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The second half, while no less entertaining, is more predictable and scattershot in its effects – until the sudden change of tone in the penultimate scene. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-21T14:41:32Z

That sounds not just like a European variation but also one with potentially less predictable complications. Review: ‘Monchichi,’ a Love Story in Different Languages 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Nathan Bainbridge, owner of Premier Meat Pies at Pier 54 and Seattle Center, says those tourists follow a predictable path, dropping dollar bills at every stop. Thanks, coronavirus. Will Seattle’s tourist-dependent businesses survive the lost summer season of 2020? 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

West avoids predictable tropes in writing about Hannah’s disability, making her neither less than human nor an object of pity. Review | The spellbinding ‘Revival Season’ makes Monica West an author to watch 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

My work and home life were in predictable rhythms. Can’t Sleep? Treat Yourself Like a Baby 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The feedback from some devoted solvers and editors to Black constructors is perhaps predictable. For crossword constructors, an inclusivity debate: What’s ‘common knowledge’ and who decides? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

It felt like a series of illogical yet predictable plot points. ‘The Night Of’ Series Premiere: Fate at the Wheel 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

In fact, if there's anything strange about this year's Oscars, it's how predictable they appear. Winners and losers of today's Oscar noms 2011-01-25T17:20:00Z

Backed by a four-member band, the cast imbues the 14 songs with charm, even when the material verges on highly predictable. Perspective | Restaged in front of the AFL-CIO’s national headquarters, ‘Working’ the musical labors to be a vehicle for activism 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

All are decent buildings, but the balance, as too often with the Stirling, is conservative and predictable. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-07-22T16:02:37Z

The moral arc of the plot may be familiar, even predictable, but it’s in the gritty details, often drawn with humor, that “A Bronx Tale” wins you over. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale: The Musical’ Doo-Wops Down Mean Streets 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Even when Rachel conspires with Adam to upend the show’s predictable arcs of villainy and tenderness, it’s only at the expense of someone vulnerable. Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Traces the Cracks in Reality TV’s Fourth Wall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

At a recent Friday performance, the packed house buzzed at first with high spirits but slumped as the show proceeded with predictable sameness. Capitalism as a sideshow fleece: That's 'Captain Greedy's Carnival' by the Actors' Gang 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The plot, stretched thin even at just 90 minutes, is extremely predictable, and therefore boring, and the film doesn’t do enough with its high-concept shock-therapy conceit to feel fresh or novel. ‘Jolt’ Review: Danger, High Voltage 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

I’m nitpicking, of course — because it’s easier to dwell on detail than to simmer with a sense of betrayal as “Masters” continues its slow dive into repetitive, predictable ruin. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: With an Ape, the Show Jumps the Shark 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Although sensitively handled in the film, it all adds up to an overload of baggage for a well-meaning but formulaic movie with not enough time to transcend predictable clichés. Review: Katie Holmes Directs Her First Feature, ‘All We Had’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The performances are desultory, the musical score bullying and the drama — aside from the game-changing placement of inconvenient shrubbery — as predictable as Tom senior’s steadily sprouting beard. Review: In ‘Tommy’s Honour,’ a Family Feud on and Off the Green 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

And Junya Watanabe made a nice, if predictable, job of mixing tailored and casual, from suspenders holding up pants over check shirts to “dressing up” denim and cotton with leather patches. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z

Given his wild ideas that humans should be treated like humans, it's entirely predictable where the backlash against Rogers would originate. Mister Rogers was actually a badass: New film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” shows his tough side 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

How to put all these strands into one book without delicately pickling each in its own predictable social novel? Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z

We trust “Sex Education” not to do that, not to go for the predictable horror, not to be too cruel, broad, upsetting, or clichéd. “Sex Education,” Season 2: The Doctor Is In 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

With impressive subtlety, the translations recreate the playful irony that undercuts the incessant anguish in each story, an anguish that can become predictable and therefore tiresome. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

At the same time, they begin to reproduce their unique early successes in a predictable way. Will TikTok Make You Buy It? 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

From the very first chapter, it is clear that Shadows on the Moon is no predictable book. Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Mariott- review 2013-05-14T14:00:00Z

To cut a predictable story short, they make it, only for one of them to end up on Szalinski’s spoon and almost get eaten with a mouthful of Cheerios. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

That choice makes the universe Rice built less predictable, more heartbreaking and frightening in a completely fresh way. Changing "Interview with the Vampire" made it more alluring while staying true to its spirit 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

As love interest Rosemary Pilkington, newcomer Rose Hemingway is certainly chirpy, but she is predictable and lacks a distinctive quirk or two. Look Ma, Harry Potter's dancing 2011-03-28T00:19:45Z

As the film builds to its literally explosive finale, there are not unexpected plot twists, and some predictable moments — especially in the coda. "The 355" delivers all the glammed-up action you want from a badass women spy flick 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

In this town, political positions and ideologies can be pretty predictable at times . Seattle's Dave Meinart is a nightlife entrepreneur and a political player 2010-07-16T21:08:00Z

Two paths diverged in the wood, and “Downton Abbey,” despite its astonishing talent and productive values, took the path of predictable, repetitive soap opera. America’s long obsession with “Downton Abbey”: How the show became a satire of Britishness 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

From there, the story proceeds along two predictable but satisfying tracks. Review: In ‘800 Words,’ a Widowed Father of Teenagers Uproots the Family 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

The bookmakers agree, with William Hill suggesting this year's Baftas will be the "most predictable in years" with six major categories having odds-on favourites. British hopefuls ready for Baftas 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

These dips are delicious, so there is that fact, but the exciting thing is they are different, not predictable like ranch dip. Looking for some snacks to enjoy while lazing about this summer? "Veg out" with these simple dips 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

It is twisted, twisty, and very far from all the predictable outsider platitudes about celebrity culture. Cannes 2014 review: Maps to the Stars - Hollywood dreams turn queasy in David Cronenberg's brilliant nightmare 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

One, the predictable debut author angst of ‘this is utter rubbish’, ‘my editor is going to pull this any moment’. "The grief of miscarriage can last forever": A conversation with "Brink of Being" author Julia Bueno 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

As “Love Is All You Need” ties up its loose ends, it settles into a rom-com formula with a predictable, upbeat ending. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z

That White people would lift those terms for their own purposes was predictable, if not inevitable. The strange journey of ‘cancel,’ from a Black-culture punchline to a White-grievance watchword 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

More predictable, perhaps, are all the people running in the streets wearing f-society masks, à la “V For Vendetta” and Anonymous. 'Mr. Robot' Season 1 Finale: Who's That Knocking at My Door? 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

Their little group stoked paranoia in all the predictable quarters. Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

But not every character cries out for development; the point of vaudeville is to play an endless series of comic variations on an unchanging, predictable personality. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

None of this was predictable before the attack. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z

Less farcical, and more predictable, is the tepid rush by conflicted GOP endorsers. What “unity” with Trump means: For Republicans, winning is everything, principles are swept away and hypocrisy reigns 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Maybe he’s grown tired of the franchise’s same-old ultraviolence or perhaps he’s bored with the predictable predictability of it all, even if this installment is as reliably watchable if ethically challenged as the previous ones. ‘The Equalizer 3’ Review: Brood, Kill, Sip a Cup of Tea, Repeat 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z

It is difficult to write about this subject without falling into predictable tropes or clichés, but Russell manages a brutal originality. Girl, Interrupted 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

One predictable, if still very weird, effect of this is that these restaurants, once constant attention getters, are now talked about so little that it’s as if they never existed. Sometimes All You Need Is a Perfect Rotisserie Chicken 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

If the story is largely predictable, it sometimes zags just when you expect it to zig. The powerful story of one family’s struggle to save an autistic child 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

The result was a final scene that, instead of feeling triumphant or soaring, landed at comically predictable camp. “Game Of Thrones” recap: Nobody puts Dany in a corner 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

“This is totally predictable when you choose not to do anything.” Perspective | Only in America: enduring one mass shooting while bracing for the next 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

A tryst between Ted and Jamie, for instance, seems predictable and perfunctory. ‘American Hero’ Finds Comedy in a Fast-Food Franchise 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Much predictable tut-tutting ensued about Swiss xenophobia, even though surveys showed similar plebiscites would get pretty much the same results elsewhere. 2010-01-15T12:58:00Z

An Oscar voter in 2020, choosing among the movies of 2019, needs to be discerning in some other way, probably in the most predictable way. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Six weeks later, things have shaken out into the same old predictable Oscars. Does Oscar crown await Affleck's 'Argo?' 2013-02-21T16:23:11Z

By far the most anticipated harvest, and the most predictable, is the annual beach pick. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z

And when the two men put aside the predictable banter and just sing, it’s downright pleasant. Theater Review: ‘The Holiday Guys: Happy Merry Hanu-Mas!’ 2012-12-24T23:03:06Z

Hosted by Seth Meyers, this year's show earned mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found the ceremony tame and the winners predictable. Emmys 2014: 2nd-highest ratings in eight years despite Monday telecast 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

As the pandemic has proved, we are adaptable creatures, though I still feel the loss of a landscape rendered drab but predictable by brown earth and gray forest. Perspective | Climate change has altered the winter season and the gardener’s sense of it 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

The news, however, may seem predictable given the filmmaker’s artistic preoccupations. ‘Rimini’ Review: Just an Austrian Gigolo 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

These are almost, in a way, predictable oscillations of an emerging market. ArtsBeat: An Interview With James Cameron 2010-10-19T13:40:00Z

"BBC One is greatly appreciated. But it can sometimes feel too predictable. Its viewers expect still more from it," she added. Soap's race depiction 'not authentic' 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

As it builds to a dismayingly predictable third act, the movie threatens to turn into a wintry 21st-century variation on the kinds of 1950s television dramas that focused on shy and lonely bachelors. 'Jack Goes Boating': Philip Seymour Hoffman steers sentimental relationship flick 2010-09-23T20:20:00Z

Yet Grushin complicates the character’s predictable trajectory by noting, at certain moments, that what is presented is just one of several alternate realities. ‘Forty Rooms’ asks: Can a woman be an artist and happy? 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

There they find a mostly pleasant life, despite the predictable cultural differences and some foreseeable misunderstandings. ‘They Call Me Q,’ Qurrat Ann Kadwani’s Solo Show 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Still, the desire to do a show where the opinions aren't predictable puts Smerconish at a disadvantage on terrestrial radio, said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers. Radio's Smerconish jumping to satellite 2013-03-06T07:16:05Z

Krystal also dwells quite a bit on the quality of the writing in genre novels: “the prose may be uneven,” he writes, “and the observations about life and society predictable.” Literary Revolution in the Supermarket Aisle: Genre Fiction Is Disruptive Technology 2012-05-23T10:45:11Z

The Boss gives her too little to work with: a hackneyed backstory and a string of slapstick gags that lead to an all too predictable climax and denouement. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

What was less predictable, perhaps, was the kerfuffle that preceded the event, with anti-animal cruelty activists Peta accusing the production of maltreating its livestock. Close up: Hobbiton and on 2012-11-29T17:29:00Z

But part of the reason it worked is because it seemed like a genuine moment, a true burst of spontaneity in a media climate filled with predictable narratives. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

His meditations about Facebook’s impact on advertising and the broader media landscape are similarly glancing and predictable. Books of The Times: ?The Facebook Effect? by David Kirkpatrick 2010-06-07T22:33:00Z

It’s a philosophy that fits Wilmore, whose comic identity is as a free thinker, dryly funny, not ideologically predictable, a guy with the questions rather than the answers. Larry Wilmore's First Nightly Show: The Underdog As Top Dog 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Of the top four - better than most top fours in “Idol” history - Mr. Colon was the most predictable and benign. Critic's Notebook: ?The Voice? Finds Itself, and Some Stars 2011-06-30T11:05:24Z

And so, a fairly predictable opening spins quickly into a complex metaphysical inquiry that is also a poignant social allegory — as much “Twin Peaks” as “True Detective.” ‘The Outsider’ Brings a Faceless Terror, and Stephen King, to HBO 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Over all, the characters’ melodrama is unwarranted; the final climactic event that Alix thinks “felt like the plot twist of a horror movie” is actually quite predictable. When It Comes to Race, How Progressive Are the Progressives? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

The other day, as Grisham sat with a reporter in a restaurant two blocks from her office, a predictable thing happened: nothing. Stephanie Grisham is Trump’s communications czar. Only most people wouldn’t know it. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

In Manitoba, Rick and Hugh are hoping to make it home in one piece for another season; but, in fairly predictable fashion, things don't quite go to plan. TV highlights 19/04/2013 2013-04-19T06:00:04Z

Buses are slightly less predictable, but necessary to get to places the train doesn’t reach. In Hong Kong’s Kowloon, the Markets Rule 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

"Can't think of a precedent offhand, but it is predictable," said Julian Zelizer, a professor at Princeton University who has written extensively on American politics. Obama, Boehner clash over jobs speech 2011-09-01T06:23:00Z

That she and her co-stars were mocked for their respective ages was so predictable as to be boring. Sarah Jessica Parker Is Turning 50, and She's More Interesting Than Ever 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

If she can help it, no predictable structures or formats of any kind. Chelsea Handler: Impulsive, Provocative and Streaming on Netflix 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was ennobling and heartwarming and uplifting to the human spirit, of course, but kind of predictable and somehow not very … satisfying. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: What to do with that half-hour before a nuclear missile strikes 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

But it was also a night of predictable wins for heavy favorites. '12 Years a Slave' makes history with best picture Oscar 2014-03-03T21:54:03Z

But I saw few visitors, save for the Indonesian, Chinese and Australian tourists in predictable places like the boardwalk and the white sandy beaches. Living Like a Local in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

You have to set up immediately that the couple are never going to get on, and the whole thing is so predictable it's almost plotted to the page. I Give It A Year: how I tried to subvert the romcom 2013-02-02T06:00:00Z

Teacher James takes up cage fighting to fund his school's music programme – with predictable results. This week's new films 2012-11-10T00:05:50Z

The song sparked a predictable blaze on TV, talk radio and the Internet. A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z

What you need is a series of responses to deal with the rude, but unfortunately predictable, follow-ups to an initial refusal. Perspective | Miss Manners: When you just really don’t want to see other people 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

The predictable storyline would be an exposé of cyberbullying or a nightmarish slipping down internet rabbit holes. Coming of age: the Gen Z losers saving cinema – and the world 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The show is actually less predictable than the list of names would imply. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Despite her commercial achievements – 20 million worldwide album sales, the youngest artist ever to achieve 10 No. 1 singles – her music is starting to sound thin and predictable. Album review: Rihanna, 'Talk That Talk' 2011-11-21T18:42:00Z

It’s like calligraphy with invisible ink, making it as predictable as, well, a dance about calligraphy. Dance Review: Resistance and Desire, With a Little Mud Wrestling 2011-05-15T21:34:05Z

It was as predictable as a Transformers sequel that, in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, somebody would blame violent movies. Shooting blanks: how Hollywood fell out of love with guns 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Sure, the new symbiosis and Kumbaya vibe between and within these families is predictable. 'Blended,' with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, is fun 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

"The award is not only a significant boost for black playwrights and small theatres," he says, "it also gives new life to the whole awards circus, which has become monstrously repetitive and wearisomely predictable." What to say about ... the Olivier awards | Leo Benedictus 2010-03-23T16:47:00Z

Devi is played by newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who brings a fine degree of spirit and believability to the role — outdistancing the often thin and predictable writing that Kaling, et al, have provided. Review | Mindy Kaling’s ‘Never Have I Ever’ is breezy, cheerful and not as good as it ought to be 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Given his unlikely political trajectory, Harlan faced a predictable charge of opportunism — that he had merely sensed which way the political winds were blowing after the Civil War and calibrated his pragmatic self accordingly. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

The reaction of the American right was predictable. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-30T14:00:01Z

And the same year, the competition crowned Nina Davulur its first Miss America of Indian ancestry — a choice that unleashed a predictable torrent of bigotry. Miss America finally apologizes to Vanessa Williams — but has the pageant really become more supportive of its women? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

But so what if the story is predictable? Comics: 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' still the greatest 2010-12-01T18:17:00Z

But while the setting is sleek and filled with clever details, the story, in which one good vampire teams with a scrappy band of free-range humans to fight the power, is timeworn and predictable. 2010-01-11T03:17:00Z

On Tuesday night, Washington Performing Arts presented Bell and his accompanist, pianist Sam Haywood, in more predictable surroundings — the Kennedy Center. Violinist Joshua Bell meets his match in pianist Sam Haywood 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

He opts for the latter, making for a very happy audience, but a predictable evening. Suede/Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Because of the war, trains no longer had predictable schedules, so ultimately, Thompson went to the border by taxi — which dropped her off in a parking lot. American mom in Ukraine races to get adoptive daughter out of Russian war zone 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

By and large, I found it interesting, easy enough to follow with variety and not to predictable, everything I like in a book! Jane Austen Stole My Boyfriend by Cora Harrison - review 2013-02-25T15:00:00Z

A comprehensive in-house study in the late ’80s fretted that Style had grown predictable and petulant; flabby with stories that were too long and writing that was too mean or too self-indulgent. Perspective | The Style section at 50: Still sharp, snarky and soulful — and always a work in progress 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

It's bracing about female resilience, predictable about male bonding. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z

The only thing predictable about the Golden Globe nominations are their unpredictability. Kate Hudson in, Spike Lee out and more Golden Globe chaos 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

A predictable night at the Dolby Theater, with a reasonably lively no-host show, turned historic in its final act, partly because it recovered and extended Hollywood’s history of internationalism. What the ‘Parasite’ Landslide Says About the Oscars: Our Critics Weigh In 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Cancer and racism, immigration and terrorism: each topic is a predictable way station on the circuit of the 24-hour news cycle. Books of The Times: Poems of Pain, the Raw and the Remembered 2011-02-09T23:57:30Z

They were the predictable mix from the American designer who had turned his tight-breasted jackets into the summer look of shorts suits. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z

She has a very defined set of things she enjoys, and she’s pretty predictable. The Most Famous Dog in the World on Instagram 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The fault lines here are all terribly predictable.” 'American Sniper' Isn't Pro-War Propaganda 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Wildlife on parade is a predictable event at most Costa Rican eco-lodges. Luxury amid nature in safe Costa Rica 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

In fact, its routines appear to render any form of sensual transaction uncreative, predictable and controlled, and the male omnipotent. Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure, translated by AND Haskar ? review 2011-03-25T13:00:01Z

For one, “natural systems don’t perform in as consistent and predictable ways as combustion engines and solar panels,” Brillinger explains. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

But every few months, I'd find myself falling into predictable rhythms and routines, and I would long for the open road. Rediscovering Washington, D.C. — on a stand-up paddleboard 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The phrase is “For his part ... .” There are predictable variations. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Journalists, beware. Use this phrase and he’ll call you out. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

This is predictable too, perhaps, but it's given an original and refreshing "turn", when, as if no longer worth the poet's personification, the meadow subsides into the merely material substance – hay. Poem of the week: The Shortness of Life by Francis Quarles 2013-01-07T10:21:04Z

The story ends with a twist, perhaps a predictable one in Lee’s hands; Victoria dumps Yung-duk in a moment of sudden cruelty, only to realize later that the true UFO might be herself. Don Lee’s Long War on Asian American Stereotypes 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Some of these conflicts seem predictable and not particularly interesting. Books of The Times: ‘The Way of the Knife,” by Mark Mazzetti 2013-04-24T21:39:27Z

Almost immediately, working together, they reinvigorated what had become over several decades a calcified summer venture, dominated by too many listlessly played and predictable programs of staples by Mozart and his contemporaries. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

Weighed down by debt, its drama, always costly to produce, had become tired and predictable and one of Fincham's most memorable moves was to axe long-running cop series The Bill. ITV looks to a dramatic future 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Yet these scenes, designed to prepare Luke for the unexpected, are entirely predictable and clumsily presented. "Seven Days in Utopia": Bland Christian film squanders Oscar-winning cast 2011-08-31T15:32:00Z

Ms. Carey's representative could have taken the predictable route of issuing a statement defending its star and then moving on. Mariah Carey and the Art of the Disaster 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Somewhere is a delicately told if perhaps rather predictable story. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

But it was isolated, and the shattering of more plaster was too predictable. Valda Setterfield Joins Jonah Bokaer at Lightbox 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

With predictable complements of heartsick teenagers, busybody servants and oppressive guardians, they could easily fall into rote. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z

Some say the film’s ending was too predictable, but if that final scene counts as formulaic, I probably need to watch more horror movies. Perspective | Is ‘Hereditary’ really the best horror movie in years? Sure sounds like it. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The actress Halle Berry makes her directorial debut with “Bruised,” a film that uses the predictable beats of a fighter’s comeback to create a showcase for hard-hitting performances. ‘Bruised’ Review: It’s a Hard-Knock Life 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

If it’s that predictable, why report on it? Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Even if the outcome of such action is predictable: a settlement or outright dismissal. Why Is Sean Penn Suing Lee Daniels? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

I then offer a comment on the predictable narrative that is deployed by those who defend police thuggery and brutality against people of color, in general, and blacks, in particular: A Form Letter of Death for Paul O’Neal, the 18-year-old black teen shot in the back by Chicago police 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Given the nature of Refn's career, it was therefore predictable that the first remake of Pusher would be developed in Leicester and shot in Hindi. Pusher returns – again 2012-10-11T19:00:01Z

A Hopi cultural official, Thomas Banyacya Jr., called the court’s decision “sad but predictable.” Despite Legal Challenges, Sale of Hopi Religious Artifacts Continues in France 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

If the sculpture starts to look predictable, she changes its shape. Art Rooted in Nature Blooms at TEFAF 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The most predictable thing about him might be his unpredictability. Why Loki, Marvel's charming antihero, remains an exciting fan-favorite after a decade 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

Critical responses to him have been equally predictable: a lot of his early reviews are of the awestruck, can't-believe-he's-so-authentically-jazzy-and-bluesy variety, as though mere reproduction is an achievement in itself. New band of the day ? No 779: Joe Worricker 2010-05-05T16:01:00Z

The former Arsenal full-back has never been a stranger to the £100,00-a-week arrogance that has long since tarnished England's "golden generation", so this latest instance is wearyingly predictable. Football: Ashley Cole no longer has a place in the England team 2012-10-06T23:06:49Z

Creaky and predictable, it should serve as comfort food to the huge and undemanding global fan base for old-school horror, the heavy metal of movie genres. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z

One problem is that Mr. Rogen, however comically inclined, has become overexposed, and there’s just something too familiar and predictable about this voice coming out of that body. | 'Paul': Calm Down, People; He Comes in Peace 2011-03-17T22:06:17Z

However predictable, there are plenty of things to enjoy in “Hell on Wheels,” and sex and violence are only two of them. Television Review: ?Hell on Wheels? on AMC ? Review 2011-11-03T22:25:01Z

Firstly, how we might avoid predictable or, worse, vacuous, transitions. 'Birdman' screenwriters created tension within its one-shot narration 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

In the biological process called “succession,” a desolate, disturbed area is gradually, by a predictable sequence of returning plants, restored to ecological continuity and durability. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z

We think it's just a predictable story about a criminal, and then we realise it's actually about so much more than that: it's about identity, history, his parents' journey to the UK. 10by10: Britain like you've never seen it on screen 2012-08-29T09:14:00Z

But that’s also a hope: without such podium fireworks, this might well be one of the most predictable awards shows ever, with showbiz ode La La Land laying waste to the evening. Oscars 2017: our final predictions 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Often, speculative fiction betrays itself, becoming predictable just at the moment when it’s supposed to be “out there.” The Weird Thoreau 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Cherry falls for Shay and the two end up together, which I think is very predictable. Cherry Crush by Cathy Cassidy - review 2013-01-17T09:00:00Z

This was a night in which the predictable bout of self-congratulation unfolded with a rare hint of genuine conviction. Oscars 2013: the contenders are also big at the box office 2013-02-22T07:00:10Z

The characters are stupid and despicable, the soundtrack is like a cheese grater against your eardrums and the plot is simultaneously predictable and incoherent. The 10 best movies with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

“Whenever you have the epic conflict of good and evil,” he said, “it becomes the most predictable story line ever, because we all know who’s going to win.” Television: A Heroic Fantasy for Skeptics 2011-04-10T01:30:02Z

And like Amy et al, she uses classic idioms – folk, blues, jazz, country, soul – to sing about all manner of classic, or, to be less generous, predictable stuff. New band of the day ? No 773: Kirsty Almeida 2010-04-26T14:43:00Z

Some of the plot turns are fully predictable, though the story also refuses to go into some of the constricting corners you're sure it's headed for. 2009-12-16T01:15:00Z

“The winners are not that predictable. There are four legitimate contenders for top movie drama,” said Matthew Belloni, editorial director of the Hollywood Reporter. Anything-can-happen Golden Globes kick off crowded awards season 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

The spontaneous applause moments are predictable, too, as they tend to quote the film. Review | The new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtually charmless 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

What they are envisioning as dramatic and innovative is coming across as generic and predictable. New band of the day (Lola's Bad No 1,492) 2013-04-15T15:42:04Z

A "Karate Kid"-like subplot unfolds as the students fend off the proverbial forces of darkness looming over Kyoto, but sheer absurdity raises "Battle League" above its predictable outcome. 'Battle League Horumo': Armies of sprites strike up the fun 2010-09-02T20:08:00Z

But that doesn’t mean the end of the movie is predictable—so you should stop reading here if you haven’t already seen it. Zero Dark Thirty, Declassified: Bigelow Dishes on Deeper Meaning of Closing Scene 2013-01-28T14:30:44Z

The objections are predictable pokes at wine jargon, though dry is easily defined as a wine with minimal amounts of residual sugar after fermentation. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

But the first few episodes of “Ray Donovan” are disappointing — grandiose, predictable and painfully slow. Television Review: ‘Ray Donovan,’ on Showtime, Stars Liev Schreiber as a Fixer 2013-06-27T21:32:46Z

But all the actors are excellent, making their characters sympathetic and surprising even in the midst of the most predictable early midlife crises. ‘Togetherness’ Joins ‘Girls’ on HBO’s Sunday Night Roster 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

"People do really want to see the old hits but we don't want to do them in a predictable way," Cleese said. Monty Python reunion promises "comedy, pathos and ancient sex" 2013-11-21T15:43:16Z

Though “Setting Free the Kites” is being marketed as a book for adults, there’s something adolescent about its wistful narrator and somewhat predictable plot. Review | ‘Setting Free the Kites,’ by Alex George 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

"Cue a predictable line about vaccines from the back." The Vaccines 2010-10-08T21:01:00Z

"Let’s play a little game to see how predictable you are," Tilton says in the video. Viral brain teaser, predicting which card you'll choose, stuns TikTok: ‘How is that possible?’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

It was all predictable: He said his marriage was in name only, he was planning to divorce, etc. Perspective | Ask Amy: Parent’s contract might not be enforceable 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Or they had D.J.s who spun music with predictable tempos that allowed skaters to match the beat. Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Despite a few predictable jeers from French separatists in Quebec, the trip was widely seen as a success, with the newlyweds charming Canadians at every stop. Kate and William heading for Los Angeles 2011-07-08T21:44:09Z

There's no exceptional writing and the endings are incredibly predictable, but it's mildly entertaining. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading, today? 2013-07-29T17:34:01Z

The show is least predictable and more rewarding as it ventures further afield, for artists whose efforts were related to but not usually part of the gang because, for one thing, they were not white. Pattern & Decoration: A Movement That Still Has Legs 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

Aside from some slightly hammy subplots and the predictable snack of a red herring or two, those are my criticisms. Review | HBO’s ‘Sharp Objects’ certainly looks like the best show of the summer, but is it? 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The outcome is as predictable as Reacher’s coffee order, but still, it had to be clear that he does not relish violence for violence’s sake. This Jack Reacher Is Going to Be Big 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Most show predictable, even mundane meals: a hamburger and fries, enchiladas, steak and baked potatoes. ‘The Last Supper,’ by Julie Green, at Arts Center in Oregon 2013-01-25T23:50:40Z

And when she strikes, it’s never predictable and often violent. Album review: Savages. 'Silence Yourself' 2013-05-06T15:28:00Z

A smooth unrolling of procedures and, of course, some pomp and ceremony, seemed perfectly predictable. The Choreography of Public Mourning 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

More nutty than scary, Stokes calls on the spirits of “Single White Female” and “Obsessed,” adding twists that are simultaneously predictable and comically unsettling. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

They arrest him, but just as Braggs is about to be executed he escapes, precipitating a series of entirely predictable chases and showdowns which Parker's no-frills prose somehow makes compelling. John O'Connell's choice of thrillers | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Though the orb itself is notoriously predictable, the clouds around it are not. Frugal Traveler Blog: Dollars to Doughnuts, a Great Time to Visit Martha's Vineyard 2012-08-28T20:22:03Z

The first sit-up-and-take-notice hint that the very winning "I Am Number Four" may add up to more than a predictable, extraterrestrial-fugitive movie comes in an early scene set in a grocery store. 'I Am Number Four': Smart, funny actioner tracks teenage alien runaways 2011-02-16T19:10:04Z

So your resentments seem disingenuous, if culturally predictable. My wealthy daughter-in-law always treats us very rudely 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z

The series handles that character’s bluster with plenty of humor and a predictable outcome that nevertheless merits a chuckle. Where "Star Trek: Discovery" boldly goes: Season 2 explores feminist frontiers 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

But industry bible called Gervais' opening minutes "disappointingly toothless", saying he "tackled predictable subjects" and made "few inspired" jokes. 2010-01-18T11:55:00Z

Building on predictable material — parent-child arguments, school crushes, wacky teachers — the pilot lightly lays out the specific challenge of balancing special needs with an entire family’s needs. Review: In ‘Speechless,’ Balancing Family Needs With Special Needs 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

That these expectations are as damaging as they are ingrained is obvious, and that a veteran female choreographer would find them so appalling is predictable. Dance Review: She?s Plastic, Beautiful and Rules the World 2011-07-01T21:25:58Z

There were also the predictable audiotapes extolling Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Abroad: Do-It-Yourself Culture Thrives Despite Globalism 2010-04-14T17:23:00Z

As any astronomer will tell you, a star is a known quantity, a predictable brand of combustion. Up Close: Joey Arias of ?Arias With a Twist? 2011-10-05T21:27:42Z

Some turns of fate in "Amy's View" are melodramatic, others all too predictable. ArtsWest takes a look at 'Amy's View' 2011-09-09T19:06:04Z

Everyone huddles around Old Faithful — the fairly predictable, world-renowned geyser near the west entrance. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

But his bottom-up success has been less predictable, and more thrilling to watch. Critic?s Notebook: On Screen, the Frenzied Yet Friendly World of Justin Bieber 2011-02-14T23:23:01Z

Ms. Spencer is one of the stars of a new Fox series, “Red Band Society,” albeit in a more predictable, pre-Rhimesian role: a bossy, sharp-tongued hospital nurse who is a softy at heart. Viola Davis Plays Shonda Rhimes’s Latest Tough Heroine 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

In a future where shifting climate patterns and other uncertainties make agriculture less predictable, that diversity will be a boon for breeders. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

It would have been nervier and less predictable. At the Met Breuer, Thinking Inside the Box 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Like his sentences, meandering and twirling and refusing to settle into something soothingly predictable, James Joyce was a wanderer. 'James Joyce': How the writer's life led to the words that survive him 2012-06-27T20:37:04Z

While fairly predictable, the first movie still manages to feel fresh, funny and sensitive in a way that isn’t replicated by either sequel. We rewatched Netflix’s ‘To All the Boys’ rom-com trilogy to decide which movie is the best 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

The play is predictable that way; you never expect Turner to lose the moral high ground, and he doesn’t. Review | Nat Turner play at Forum Theatre gives the rebel the high ground 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

At first, it seems that this will be a predictable, gratingly cute tale of heartache and betrayal. A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Television is full of bland, anodyne, inoffensive acts, wasting airtime with material so obvious, predictable and boring that it's only purpose, surely, is to anaesthetise us. Is Frankie Boyle actually funny? 2010-12-19T00:06:27Z

It’s a sturdy, versatile trope, no less appealing for being predictable, and with the right balance of flirty antagonism and latent sexual tension, the payoff is certainly satisfying. ‘Moonshot’ Review: Found in Space 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

But airport busy periods are fairly predictable, and this should be a good approximation. Perspective | An insider’s guide to airport transit times 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z

“We are all pretty close, but also not very organized or predictable, so who knows?” Porches, Yards, Driveways, Parking Lots: Where the Neighborhood Is Now 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

His reactions were predictable and understandable: embarrassment, shame and fear that not being able to consummate our love might undermine the relationship and make me feel undesirable. My life in sex: the partner of a man with erectile dysfunction 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Lynche was rescued by the show's judges five weeks ago, but he received the fewest viewer votes following his predictable rendition of Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There" from "Free Willy" on Tuesday's movie-themed edition. 'Idol' curtain closes on Michael Lynche 2010-05-13T04:46:00Z

In his improvisations, on tenor and soprano saxophone, Mr. Shorter didn’t play grand old man, delivering bravura statements with predictable arcs followed by obvious spaces for applause. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

In between deliveries he drowns his despair in booze, with predictable results — idle minds might wonder what those white chunks are in the vomit close-up. ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The crimes he solves are formulaic and predictable. Rainn Wilson Plays a Caustic Investigator in ‘Backstrom’ on Fox 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

To see all these different manifestations of street art that break away from the more predictable street art aesthetics. Shepard Fairey: Have we lost the 'street' in street art? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z

All the action that follows is somewhat predictable, especially if you recall the obstacles Steve had to overcome despite achieving instantaneous swoleness. Marvel 's "What If...?" is a thrilling ride into the multiverse, albeit with minor irritations 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Among his most remarkable achievements is assembling a persuasive period soundtrack that is almost entirely devoid of predictable classic-rock touchstones. Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air,’ directed by Olivier Assayas 2013-05-02T23:51:05Z

But it is less unified and more predictable than its predecessors, and doesn't play to all the franchise's earlier strengths. 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days': Rodrick rules this one, too 2012-08-01T23:37:10Z

The Academy, too long a petrified forest with numbingly predictable tastes, needed to be modernized, diversified and electrified, and maybe these changes will help when it comes to honoring good work in the industry. Diversity Waits on a Green Light 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

At this point, the canon of apocalypse cinema is predictable. Watch London Blow Up in the Trailer For 'London Has Fallen' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The boom in online retail was predictable, but most of us were surprised by how smoothly office life continued without the office. What Americans Missed Most About Going to Restaurants. (It Wasn’t the Food.) 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

"Fallout" offers a highly predictable form of fun -- although it's still fun. “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”: Tom Cruise action spectacle delivers high-level summer fun 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The forces at work were as predictable as gravity. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

It's also a predictable fact that there are no composers here from the second half of the 20th century or beyond. The top 10 composers of all time 2011-01-24T14:09:45Z

"This is so predictable - 18 months from an election and the government decides to start pressuring the BBC," he said. TV licence fee 'may be cut' - Shapps 2013-10-27T10:49:47Z

But for every success story, there have been numerous all-star lineups that were too predictable and somewhat boring. Yorke, Flea come together in supergroup debut 2013-02-27T15:13:09Z

And over the night they appeared to be part of Mr. Williams’s strategy for moving beyond last year’s shenanigans: to surround himself with people less predictable and more grating. Music Review: At the Knitting Factory, Wavves Move Past Meltdown 2010-06-25T23:59:00Z

What happens to it is predictable; what happens to the narrator and Bon is anything but. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Of all the musicians on this list, she’s the one whose future seems brightest and the least predictable. Great indie-rock moments 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

But we know where things are headed; the inglorious ends of a long con are often more predictable than they are narratively satisfying. Bunkmates Turned Scam Artists Take Silicon Valley for a Ride 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

Friction with central governments—Sierra Leone’s government, for example, made washing corpses a criminal offence—was the predictable result. Best practice 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, I banged on about how brilliant US radio documentaries can seem when compared to stodgy, predictable UK fare. Rewind radio: London's Oldest Prison; Oblique Strategies – review 2013-06-15T17:00:03Z

Just as history is cyclical, his messages and warnings are predictable. Dance Review: Alex Escalante’s ‘Charlie’ at Abrons Arts Center 2012-06-04T22:23:54Z

The outcome was predictable—the usual dreary disaster. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

As a filmmaker, however, he’s more focused and less predictable, channeling his choleric style into pointed satires on American society that sometimes hit their marks with uncomfortable directness. ‘Willow Creek,’ a Good Old Hunt for Sasquatch 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The accusation that Dunham's work is steeped in narcissism and white, New York privilege is both predictable and accurate. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

To its credit, just when it seems on its way to a predictable happy ending, the movie, directed by Klay Hall, takes a jarringly dark turn as Dusty encounters a frightening storm at sea. Movie Review: ‘Disney’s Planes’ Follows in the Footsteps of ‘Cars’ 2013-08-08T23:03:51Z

The you-wear-it/you’re-asking-for-it implication of the letter, not to mention the sheer idea of censoring clothing, set off the predictable firestorm of protest, both on campus and off. It’s Possible Leggings Are the Future. Deal With It. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

His ideas become predictable; she finds his desire to be “politically surprising” distasteful. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He said there was no predictable timeline for filming to start, adding that one possible outcome could see MGM sharing or selling off the rights. Guillermo del Toro quits as director of The Hobbit 2010-05-31T15:36:00Z

The Inheritance of Loss, for example: what a tiresomely predictable title for a Booker winner. How not to title a novel 2010-03-19T16:14:00Z

Their lighthearted show, “From Pelham to Park Avenue,” relies heavily on predictable twin shtick. Music Review: Will and Anthony Nunziata at Feinstein?s 2010-04-22T21:15:00Z

Escaping the distractions of home and predictable family interactions, we formed a new adult relationship in a neutral environment. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

“It’s stable, predictable and renders decisions quickly,” says University of Delaware historian Jonathan Russ. Delaware is famous for corporations, chemicals, chickens — and now, finally, a president 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

It made the attack seem just as predictable, which somehow also ruined the effect of Dany's entrance. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Like all reality TV, there is some predictable artifice, but the show is refreshing in its concentration on creative process over performance. Why you should catch up on Netflix's addictive "Rhythm + Flow" 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

But where Dawkins comes off as a raging, insensitive tool is in his blithe assumption that human reactions ought to be predictable and similar. Richard Dawkins doesn’t get to define sex abuse 2013-09-11T19:00:00Z

If “Scream” were just a lark, a feature-length riff on horror tropes, it would be as tiresome and predictable as the movies it’s satirizing. ‘Scream’ at 25: How Meta Can You Get? 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Skink takes a predictable shine to Ann, who predictably becomes the book’s true heroine. Books of The Times: How to Handle a Pop Star in Carl Hiaasen?s ?Star Island? 2010-07-20T22:00:00Z

It's a small room with a small stage and a predictable brick wall that serves as a backdrop. Meet the inscrutible, electric Hannibal Buress 2011-06-15T21:32:00Z

Instead of the predictable monthly benefits many of our parents got when they retired, we received “defined contribution” plans – basically, do-it-yourself pensions. When entitlement reform meets immigration reform 2013-02-20T20:00:00Z

The rest of the action is taken up with predictable, hammily acted nonsense. Film review: The Blind Side 2010-03-25T22:20:00Z

But then there was nothing predictable about Theo Bleckmann’s whimsical interpretation of the song cycle on Tuesday at the Stone, where he is in residence this week. Review: Theo Bleckmann Upends a Schumann Song Cycle 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The plot is often predictable; it requires a large helping of artificial contrivance; and it lurches into melodrama in the final act. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z

Monday to Friday, as predictable and uncomplicated as a folk song. So ends another summer scramble to keep kids busy 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The music had soul and low-key integrity, but had turned predictable. Album review: Wilco, 'The Whole Love' 2011-09-22T04:29:00Z

He intends to replace that predictable progression with a more fervent adherence to seasonality. René Redzepi Plans to Close Noma and Reopen It as an Urban Farm 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

When she graduated from Harvard in 2003, she embarked on a more predictable career path. Up Close: Melia Marden, Chef at the Smile Cafe in NoHo 2012-10-10T18:56:57Z

What should be strange about this, but is in fact depressingly predictable, is that nowhere does he mention David Jones's In Parenthesis, probably the best book about the war in English. The first world war's great novelist: David Jones 2011-02-04T13:58:23Z

His folksy speeches have become predictable, both in timing and content. Turn "Ted Lasso" into the Roy Kent show, you cowards 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

Some "Room 104" stories are hilarious, others horrifying, and many encompass an assortment of emotions, none predictable. As Mark Duplass makes his "Room 104" swan song, he carries its diverse vision to future projects 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

"It's very easy to become a little bit stale, a little bit predictable after 14 titles," she said, "but he's really refreshed it brilliantly." Lee Child wins crime novel of the year award 2011-07-22T10:24:29Z

And the plot builds to a last-minute disclosure from Mom that feels both predictable and strained. Theater Review: ‘The Memory Show,’ at the Duke Theater 2013-05-10T17:35:52Z

There’s a predictable element not just to the movie’s four-seasons structure but also to the story lines themselves. Review: In ‘Rogers Park,’ Life and Love in a Chicago Neighborhood 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The most mundane and predictable demise, the end of a Broadway run, receives extended soul-searching and public autopsy. Dave Attell Bids a Heartfelt (and Hilarious) Farewell to Carolines 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

Hitchcock was a master of mischief and misdirection, and no film so thoroughly infused with his spirit could be dull or predictable. | 'Double Take': Grimonprez Makes Hitchcock a Symbol of Cold War Era 2010-06-01T22:24:00Z

The sketches are weak and her pro-Hillary declarations are predictable and not all that funny. We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

There was a time when a set of French windows on stage, and Terence Rattigan on the poster, would signify the most placid and predictable entertainment. The Winslow Boy – review 2013-05-08T17:07:43Z

What more predictable way of introducing a sex addict than, well, with a sex scene? ‘Hooking Up’ Review: Why Don’t We Do It on the Road? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

One is that we like people to be predictable. Why are we so obsessed with superhero origin stories?: Here’s a psychologist’s take 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

But, he says, I.P.O.ing executives usually want predictable things. Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

But over 75 minutes, the blueprint becomes tiring and predictable, and Rage's incessant urgings that we jump and/or scream start feeling like a particularly intense go-for-the-burn workout video. Chase & Status at Glastonbury 2013 - review 2013-06-30T12:36:42Z

“Counting Backward” was a bloated collage of predictable ambient ensemble writing and hokey prerecorded observations on time and nature, echoed by volunteers planted throughout the audience. For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

In it I suggested that the arc of the addict, especially in recollection, is as predictable as a Hallmark movie. Arts & Leisure: Wrestling With Recovery Is No Fairy Tale 2011-06-29T12:00:06Z

Controversies over “Huckleberry Finn” occur with predictable regularity. Critic?s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You 2011-01-06T23:26:12Z

That’s because the lion’s share of American murders fit a predictable template. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But if this is true, it means that it is true as well that what extraordinary fame does to people is not only sad but also rather boringly predictable. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ghosts,’ ‘Blurred Lines’ and ‘The Pass’ in London 2014-02-04T18:25:15Z

It’s predictable that no one comes across as remotely real, although Hunter, who carries the banner for bad parenting, at least suggests a person. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

I like the implication of the question: Do we all have a predictable reading list for our curriculum vitae, our class, our race, our gender? Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

He created an attractive work — compelling except when certain repetitive passages grow predictable — which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2016. Review: Beethoven Gets a Sequel at the New York Philharmonic 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

"It's predictable, formulaic trash," wrote one commentator on the Guardian's website last week. Mrs Brown's Boys: how the 'worst comedy ever made' became a smash hit 2013-01-29T16:57:30Z

But it is at its best when it lets harsh reality — particularly the sacrifices people who love each other have to make — disrupt its more predictable and adolescent impulses. ‘Gameboys: The Movie’ Review: An Online Relationship Gets Real 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Toby Jones, the sad sack’s sad sack, plays a British tour-bus driver whose gloomy but predictable life is disrupted by the discovery of a stowaway on his cross-Channel coach. Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Such blabfests have the additional benefit of drawing predictable audiences, which in turn establishes predictable advertising rates, which in turn produces reliable cash flows. How breaking news got panelized: On cable, journalists and pundits increasingly share space. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Kooser manages to capture this sense of slow, predictable suddenness extremely neatly. Poster Poems: October 2012-10-05T12:51:18Z

We are talking about her long career as an actress and how the only thing predictable about the choices she has made is their unpredictability. Zoë Wanamaker: 'Acting is a vicious business' 2013-05-05T08:00:02Z

“Samaria” is not, however, completely without intrigue, and the ending at least eschews a completely predictable twist. ‘Intrigo: Samaria’ Review: An Old Murder Mystery Unearthed 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Bannon does not shy from his associations with the mystical; when the piece first appeared, he even responded positively to the author — allowing never a predictable moment. Steve Bannon and the occult: The right wing’s long, strange love affair with New Age mysticism 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

These are somewhat predictable shortcomings, dependent as the book is on voice-over transcripts spanning decades and the impossible task of stringing them together across time. How Do You Write an Anthony Bourdain Book Without Anthony Bourdain? 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Past guests have included David Letterman, Chris Rock and Barbara Streisand as "Alec sidesteps the predictable by going inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people we want to understand better." Alec Baldwin's interview with Woody Allen was shoddy, shallow & glitchy – Why did this happen again? 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Even in a predictable horror film like Silent House, Olsen draws empathy like a magnet. Silent House, Shrieking Heroine 2012-03-08T19:34:29Z

He adds, “You may wish it did not all happen in such a perfunctory, predictable way.” What’s on TV Tuesday: “Super 8” and “#TEAMPLUTO” 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Fiction's most recent deathwatch began with David Shields' provocative 2010 book "Reality Hunger," in which he diagnosed the traditional novel as "predictable, tired, contrived and essentially purposeless." T.C. Boyle roams the American psyche in 'The Harder They Come' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

It seemed fairly predictable thriller fare, and that’s precisely the problem. Hollywood’s despicable whitewashing continues: This bland Keanu Reeves cop thriller started as a diverse, female-centered bilingual drama 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

But even if the story trajectory became predictable, "Entourage" often rises above it on the strength of its characters. 'Entourage's' star may rise again in final season 2011-07-20T23:07:04Z

But Homer and the gang hung in there, and eventually we got sick of "South Park's" preaching and "Family Guy's" predictable cutaways. Five signs we've reached the era of 90s nostalgia 2011-03-10T18:11:00Z

Plot-wise it was all a bit predictable, but that didn't matter a jot. Radio review: Afternoon Play ? Two Pipe Problem 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z

Onstage, with its predictable subway sketches and its a cappella score, it seemed like a shotgun wedding of incompatible elements. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Claire Maddocks, a neurologic music therapist, said she thinks sea shanties appeal to people because of the “simplicity of a human voice,” and the repetitive, predictable nature of the song. Social media stars sail away with sea shanty record deals 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

If the chain-of-disaster plot becomes slightly predictable, Steiner shows great empathy for her characters. Homecoming by Susie Steiner – review 2013-05-03T16:25:01Z

And apparently it worked, because the judges fell all over themselves to tell Chad how good he was -- another transparent effort to create some drama for the increasingly predictable elimination this week. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan shows feeling 2010-05-18T13:20:00Z

As long as readers are ready to surrender to the pleasures of the predictable, Ware’s latest thriller is enjoyable enough. Does Ruth Ware’s new spine-tingler live up to expectations? 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Life Story” is beloved, and, in predictable quarters, loathed, or even feared. “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

But Teen Daughter just uses the premise as a setup for predictable zinger comedy. TV Tonight: I Hate My Teenage Daughter 2011-11-30T14:33:42Z

“Parents and children may perceive family changes as more normative, more predictable, and, thus, less stressful.” Wealthy Kids Are More Affected by Divorce Than Poor Kids 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Almeida Festival – the Islington boutique theatre's least predictable and often most exciting strand of work – begins with Inspector Sands' latest piece, Mass Observation. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-29T15:43:54Z

Every tangle of unpredictable behavior harbors at least one entirely predictable thread. Who Dreams of Hunting People? 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Stanley also has a few chats with a priest, but they don’t probe deeply enough to make this film, directed by Chuck Russell, anything but an assemblage of predictable carnage. Review: Vengeance, Thy Name Is Travolta, in ‘I Am Wrath’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In doing so, it shortchanges the achievement of a woman whose life was anything but predictable. 'Conviction': Great story gets mediocre treatment 2010-10-21T20:17:00Z

“Live Dangerously” spotlights the works of 12 photographers who defy predictable, passive images of the female form in nature. In the #MeToo Era, Museums Celebrate Women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Daniela Valenciano plays Isabel with an unassuming sense of mystery, never making her inner turmoil too obvious or predictable; refreshingly, her husband, though oblivious, is not made into a villain either. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Her destination might be predictable, but her detours are rarely less than beguiling. ‘Poser’ Review: Fade Into You 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

That doesn’t quite count as news, but it was noteworthy in a performance of predictable excellence. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-06-11T20:59:24Z

All this imparted life to somewhat predictable alternations of recitatives and da capo arias that could have grown tedious. Music Review: A Generous Opening to the Lucerne Easter Festival 2011-04-11T17:51:16Z

Criticisms of sexism and unequal gender relations often provoke a backlash, in the form of predictable expressions of anti-feminist sentiments. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

Over the decades, he’s indulged in all the predictable conspicuous consumptions, including human-growth hormone and testosterone. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Companies like EA are trying to create a steady and predictable revenue stream from subscribers as opposed to a current Hollywood-like business model where games can be one-time blockbuster events. Analysis: EA bets big on Jedis and Wookies 2011-12-20T17:57:24Z

The debate is vicious but predictable, and in the American political mainstream its contours haven’t changed much in a quarter-century. No Light at the End of This Tunnel 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

There’s an old joke about vegans that is trotted out with predictable regularity around any discussion about eschewing animal products. Hail seitan! How vegan food got down’n’dirty 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

In part, these are predictable efforts to capitalise on the recent success of new versions of old classic fantasies, from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland to Lord of the Rings. The blizzard of Oz 2010-05-21T20:29:00Z

Isn't some such grisliness predictable when you see a roomful of people in paper hats? Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z

But while studios may have been predictable, audiences did something this summer that I didn’t expect. These 8 Actresses Proved Women Can Carry A Summer Blockbuster 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Adaptations by Ireland’s Michael Keegan-Dolan and Britain’s Matthew Bourne steer clear of anything so predictable. Bob Dylan, bare-chested swans, a dancer in her 80s: Two unorthodox ‘Swan Lakes’ for today 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a predictable political strategy — an ugly, undemocratic one — that works as a way to feed raw meat to his base. Perspective | Serious journalists should be proud of — not bullied over — their Russia reporting 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Or the predictable stressors of family life messed with our otherwise compatible genes. True Love? On TV, There’s an App for That. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Officials were not thrilled with the show, which many board members thought had become repetitive and predictable. Producer George Stevens Jr. announces the 37th KenCen Honors was his last 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The results, if predictable, are fun to read about. Review: A Big Cool Breeze of Rick Bass Stories 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Springing from a New York Times Modern Love column, Calhoun’s memoir reads like a series of light and funny essays, formed from original, engrossing anecdotes interspersed with somewhat more predictable life lessons. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

This wasn’t always the case: I once saw the hydrangea as resolutely staid and predictable, a dull plant for dull people. Perspective | I long rejected the hydrangea as dull. But I’ve turned over a new leaf. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Gleeful but gullible husbands are then happy for him to keep company with their wives, with predictable consequences. Ten of the best lotharios in literature 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

In 2018, a second location opened in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, to predictable wails and moans. At Sushi Nakazawa, Only the Price Remains the Same 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Social networking is often a wonderful thing but in the wake of a celebrity death, people engage in a predictable set of behaviors. The power of communal grief: Mourning Mandela and beyond 2013-12-06T16:45:00Z

In some ways, reaction to Lebanon has been wholly predictable. My hopes for peace 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z

Hearings have been postponed and abandoned, at predictable cost; in one murder trial last month, a bogus interpreter turned up at Winchester crown court because his wife was busy. Interpreters in courts: lost in translation 2012-08-05T22:53:41Z

The mark of a professional is reliability; the talented amateur delivers wonders as happy accidents but lacks the technique to be malleable or, for that matter, predictable. Movie of the Week: “People on Sunday” 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Nothing about its structure is predictable; everything is thrilling. Alexei Ratmansky Celebrates Richard Strauss 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

The dialogue between them is pretty predictable, turning on Bill’s self-consciousness about being in his 40s. Cameron Crowe’s “Roadies”: A rock ‘n’ roll labor of love that dares to be sentimental 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

Films about North Korea by outsiders run into the predictable problem of access. Film: Filmmakers on North Korea: Restricted, but Not Deterred 2010-03-27T01:07:00Z

The flow of drugs was usually small and predictable. Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

I’ve never accepted the simplistic idea that TV dictates morality or brainwashes us politically–like all powerful art’s, its influence isn’t easily predictable, and our relationship with it is complicated and two-way. What I Learned Watching 16 Years of Television for TIME 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

We follow the patterns of the group, predictable and not, laid out in four sections and knit together at the end. Dance Review: City Ballet in Varied Works at Koch Theater 2012-10-07T20:27:27Z

It’s too bad that he didn’t bring a little more creativity to the predictable tale he does fashion, though. Movie Review': ‘The Stand Up’ 2012-09-14T05:31:14Z

Mr. Gowin’s choices don’t always match so neatly, which keeps the show from becoming predictable. Review: Emmet Gowin’s Poignant Pairings at the Morgan Library 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

It worked well enough to turn her 2002 debut, “Come Away With Me,” into a runaway success, but ever since she’s become increasingly predictable. Album review: Norah Jones, '... Little Broken Hearts' 2012-04-30T21:58:00Z

Ketcham’s story has a predictable Lifetime Channel arc, sprinkled with statistics about addiction. Adversity Needn’t Thwart or Define You. Here’s How to Cope. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Many were predictable -- china plates, paperweights, framed pictures -- but some were more surprising. Chocolate castle, beetles among gifts to UK queen 2014-01-16T00:43:47Z

Our sense of time has altered such that it’s become a predictable refrain that we can’t believe it’s only been one month, six months, one year, since Trump moved into the White House. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Torn out of their usual more predictable contexts, the artworks require us to see them differently, posing provocative questions. | Bernard-Henri Lévy on Art and Philosophy 2013-05-31T21:49:07Z

In the meantime, her children’s absence weighs “like a bereavement” and the loneliness hits hardest at certain predictable moments. The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

The New York debut of Music on the Edge, on Tuesday, wasn’t predictable at all. Review: Music on the Edge Makes Its New York Debut 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

There would be more dynamism in this if the trajectory of the two characters – anal-retentive killer and libertine liberal – were less predictable. Anne Boleyn; Danton's Death; The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

It is alternately inspiring — almost visionary — and insufferable, innovative and predictable, meticulous and sentimentally precious. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z

Jazz is jumping up, for sure — though not always where you expect it to, and certainly not in any predictable form. Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Some are predictable melodrama and fairly harmless cries for validation — but not all. Motherlode Blog: When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help 2012-02-24T04:20:27Z

What’s left is a fairly predictable parable about trading ethnic solidarity for career opportunities, climbing the network ladder on the brown backs of others. Review: In ‘Fade,’ Outsiders Find Each Other Thanks to a TV Crime Show 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Law & Order” is hypnotic precisely because it is both suspenseful and utterly predictable, fascinatingly lurid but comfortingly familiar. The TV Watch: ?Law & Order?: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten 2010-05-16T21:40:00Z

But since their four concerts at the American Mavericks festival in March 2012, their Carnegie Hall programs have become predictable. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

A detective story is a way of dealing with the dark: it is about gathering and containing death and horror within a safe and predictable narrative structure. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

It’s a not terribly predictable turn for a man who at one time was pursuing a Ph.D. in geophysics at Cambridge, with plans to work in the oil industry. Nick Mohammed Has Been Faking It on ‘Ted Lasso’ 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The only thing that I would criticize about this book was that in places the story was quite predictable. Kentucky Thriller by Lauren St John - review 2012-08-17T14:00:00Z

Mr. Riehle thinks the account’s appeal can be chalked up to its positive and predictable messages during a period marked by fear and uncertainty. Is It the Weekend? Not Until He Says So. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

There have been a few less predictable touches. Inside Art: Large Works and Big Changes at Art Basel 2012-06-14T21:02:26Z

She found here the precise combination of bright holiday sparkle and eccentric turns of phrase that made nothing seem predictable. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla shows why she's moving up in latest L.A. Phil show at Disney Hall 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

He describes the massive shift in the retail industry as simply another turn in a predictable life cycle — predictable mostly in that the shops that come inevitably go. The future of malls is bleak. But one of the D.C. area’s oldest malls has found a niche: immigrants 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Robin: "You could never surprise me … so predictable." Cocteau Twins: 'It's music to bonk to' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-31T17:01:42Z

He was churning out bland, predictable screeds against President Obama. The Incestuous Relationship Between Donald Trump and Fox News 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and while heart-shaped anything is predictable, there is practically nobody in the world who would turn down one made out of shortbread and filled with chocolate. 16 affordable Aldi products to snag right now 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Such an artist has predictable revenue from their recent hits which will be played on the radio and used in commercials, but more importantly they will be touring off that, Lipson notes. BlackRock Investing In Musicians Through Alignment Artist Capital 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Like most home cooks, my dad has a reliable, if predictable, list of recipes from which to choose on the nights he makes dinner. This crispy, fried secret ingredient is the best way to upgrade homemade chili 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

"I think it was a little bit predictable." Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging 'American Idol' Top 4 performances 2010-05-12T00:59:00Z

To some degree, “Nomadland” wishes to be settled — wants not necessarily to domesticate its heroine, but at least to bend her journey into a more-or-less predictable arc. ‘Nomadland’ Review: The Unsettled Americans 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Setting aside the fact that this “Lost in Space” is unforgivably predictable, badly written and slow as Christmas, it also suffers from a lack of clear intent: Is it meant for kids and teenagers, mainly? Review | ‘Lost in Space’ is adrift in that vast area between shows for kids and shows for grown-ups 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

First, Patrick forced insurers to stop raising premiums, which led to a predictable train wreck, as insurers started hemorrhaging cash. Massachusetts Institutes Health-Care Price Controls. Is America Next? 2012-05-07T03:03:48Z

But it's the ways — some predictable, others unforeseen — in which Steve and Ben's weirdly co-dependent friendship is tested as they grow and change that elevate the story. 'Are You Here' is a gentle buddy movie with charm 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The two have concocted a predictable tale of culture clashes between the oddball Addams crew and the square, straight-laced Ohio family whose son wants to marry almost grown-up Wednesday. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z

Long-acting contraceptives eliminate these factors, which means they work equally well for empowered women whose lives are secure and predictable, and for disempowered women whose lives are not. Birth control for beginners: What’s preventing women from getting access to the full range of contraceptive options? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Stiller's movies are almost as predictable as Ferrell's now – you have to wonder if they've both reached some sort of sell-by date. Is The Watch 2012's unluckiest film? 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

The pattern becomes predictable, and the yawning during one bit of lying around is a little too infectious, yet the performers are always appealing and believable. Dance Review: One Definition of Collaboration: Putting Heads Together, Then Taking Turns 2011-10-14T23:15:59Z

“For Life” is hampered by the formula of prime-time legal dramas, wherein the greater character studies lose out to the revolving subplots of cases, which can lead to a predictable tedium. Review | In ‘Tommy’ and ‘For Life,’ criminal justice reform comes from within the system 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

"Often when we investigate fatalities, we find that they were predictable and preventable," Michaels said. Filming accidents increased in last five years, data show 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“Too many romantic comedies contained warring duos, low stakes, and predictable endings,” Carlson writes. The new book 'I'll Have What She's Having' looks at what made Nora Ephron's three best films great 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

One of the most annoying things about King Arthur was Hunnam’s thoroughly predictable turn as a cheeky working-class lad. Jude Law is one but Tom Hardy isn't: what makes a movie star? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The action has all been in catalogs: bundles of songwriting copyrights that, if popular and long-lasting enough, can collect steady, predictable streams of income. This Man Is Betting $1.7 Billion on the Rights to Your Favorite Songs 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

But I thought, "If we're going to do this, we need to just not be predictable." Tori Amos lightens up 2011-09-20T16:21:00Z

It’s not exactly dry, but it is slightly predictable. Who is the real Stephen Colbert? An early peek at his Late Show 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

I scheduled only two things each day — wildly predictable events, free of crowds and costs. In South Portland, Maine, the sun is the star 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Heist movies tend of course to be similar and predictable, and “Army of Thieves” leans in, very self-consciously, to the style of the genre. ‘Army of Thieves’ Review: A Little Help From Some Old Friends 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The appearance of the Napoleon hat is as predictable as the sneering at the Americans. 2010-02-16T22:39:00Z

“Nothing wrong with predictable, but ultimately bookstores are places that drive discovery of new talent.” What Snoop Dogg’s Success Says About the Book Industry 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

Too often, the imagined unknown turns out to be more predictable than even the best remembered history. ‘Extant’ Stars Halle Berry as a Space Traveler With a Secret 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Outside London, the other big beneficiaries are predictable enough. Arts Council cuts spare big cultural institutions 2011-03-30T15:33:11Z

Like every other mainstream teen romantic comedy, it’s fluffy and predictable – it just happened to center on a gay teenager and his coming out. Teenage stream: how Netflix resurrected the high school movie 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

Is Avri’s behavior surprising in any way, or more or less predictable? This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

His actions bring the predictable reactions from Murase, and the bloodshed begets retaliatory bloodshed, which in turn begets further vengeance. 'Outrage': a gangland war, yakuza style 2011-12-15T20:59:10Z

Berglund has a lot of fun with Crystal's creative determination and frustration – enough that when her entirely predictable arc reaches its climax, it's still satisfying to watch. Starz's "Heels" proves wrestling isn't fake by creating a show about it that doesn't feel genuine 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

The Boston group was a similarly predictable predictor, with 17 eventual Oscar winners and 26 nominees. Critics' Awards: Early Clues to the Oscars? 2012-01-10T11:58:45Z

“Right now, to write a country rap, it’s almost predictable,” said Luke Laird, in the attic studio of his new office space on Music Row. Country Music Opens Its Ears 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Aside from a predictable shift to large-format color photography, Mr. Divola’s work has not evolved much over the last few decades. Art in Review: JOHN DIVOLA: ?Trees for the Forest? 2011-05-19T19:19:00Z

They responded in kind and a predictable spiral of violence followed. A Political Prisoner Restores His Mind by Talking to a Frog 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, too much of the material in “Mr. Sunshine” is predictable and even trite, including Crystal’s admission that she is terrified of clowns. Television Review: Sunny Town, Gloomy Boss 2011-02-08T22:17:19Z

The invasive Georgie sends the old butcher’s life off its otherwise predictable course, though the woman’s reasons for doing so remain uncertain. An overnight sensation after 45 years in the biz: Denis Arndt, Mary-Louise Parker's co-star in 'Heisenberg' 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The Rangers are becoming less predictable, their demands less reasonable. Review | Diane Cook’s ‘The New Wilderness’ is accidentally timely but also timeless 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

The characters, including the inevitably valiant warriors who aide Perseus during his computer-assisted adventures, are as predictable as the action scenes, which is what some companies want when they manufacture global products of this type. Movie Review | 'Clash of the Titans': Sam Worthington and Liam Neeson in a Greek Myth 2010-04-01T21:59:00Z

So it goes in Washington, a city with predictable unpredictability. Your boss lost an election, you lost a job — but Tom Manatos is here to save the day.

They were designed to be utterly predictable, familiar, disconnected and unchanging, both socially and aesthetically — the better to soothe employees and keep them focused. The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

After explosive, joyful sections paired with Vivaldi — the structure placed the dancers traveling along a predictable diagonal — the traditional dancers mixed in with the others, which at times seemed forced and at times essential. Review: Black Grace Dances Out a Different Kind of Buzz 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

There are “quick money” side hustles, which provide income right away and are generally predictable — taking a job as a server on weeknights or working retail over the weekend. Want to pay off debt and build your finances faster? Look to the side hustle. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Or the biggest one, which was that despite it all being terribly familiar and predictable, Last Tango was not at all bad. TV review: Last Tango in Halifax; Fresh Meat 2012-11-20T23:00:01Z

It was a sad, silly and utterly predictable - points made brilliantly by Hyde. Tulisa sting by The Sun lacks any journalistic merit 2013-06-07T09:38:00Z

Chandler: Could this reunion BE any more predictable? Friends reunited: the one where they try to get along again 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Her career and parenting years are rife with regrets, as is her dull marriage to Bernard, a man “as steady and predictable as the tides,” except for his spurts of irascibility. ‘This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!’ review: At 78, this heroine has secrets 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

From the raw to the refined, each is significant in adding to the cultural discourse — and not in predictable ways. Oscars 2015: Powerful foreign-language film nominees incite with insight 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The reactions to them were often divided, rarely predictable. Pasolini’s Legacy: A Sprawl of Brutality 2012-12-26T23:04:57Z

As every twist is entirely predictable, there's never a moment when you aren't quite certain what will happen next. Letters to Juliet is corny as Kansas. Great! 2010-06-14T09:45:00Z

Perhaps it is Ethan, the eldest, who capitalizes on his family’s notoriety, writing a newspaper article on “The Problems With Forgiveness,” which, Lex observes, “were many and predictable.” What Happens to Siblings Who Survive a House of Horrors? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

An element of surprise is surely welcome at a festival that can seem, year in and year out, a bit predictable, an annual parade of work by the same cluster of masters. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival Includes a Sneak Preview 2011-10-09T22:05:10Z

But it is not so predictable for a large major newspaper in a city that’s fairly sophisticated. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Your voice is good; however, you use it in a rather predictable small-stage intimate venue. American Idol, Miley Cyrus Week: Our Eggheads Debate 2010-03-24T13:12:00Z

Most offer predictable activities like arts and crafts and board games. Hotels Are Enhancing Offerings for Pint-Size Guests 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The most popular shows on TV — “NCIS,” “CSI,” “Two and Half Men”— are all series in which every episode hits the same predictable beats, in a supremely professional, competent and enjoyable manner. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z

Less predictable was his performance, an explosion of political energy, nimble rapping, and forceful imagery. Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and the Warping Power of the Grammys 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The outcome of their battle over the woman they love is entirely predictable. Pick of the week: A killer clown takes on fascism 2011-08-19T01:01:00Z

Somehow “The Office” managed to drag out a ships-passing-in-the-night love story much longer than was logically tenable and never once played it too corny or predictable. Five things we learned from “The Office” 2012-08-27T20:43:00Z

Which is not to say that she was in any way a fixed or predictable presence. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z

In some ways the show was predictable, and in some ways it was as disorienting as the contemporary world itself. “Peter Pan Live!” and a Night of Protests 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Still, given the way in which the draw has already been decided, it’ll probably be the predictable Argentina-Brazil final, with the Brazilians winning one-nil, and no doubt thanks to a dubious refereeing decision. A Selfless Man: David Peace Talks About Bill Shankly and 'Red or Dead' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The first episode, then, is worrisome: It’s a little dawdling and predictable and unsure of its tone, with cardboard characters and flat dialogue. ‘The Strain,’ on FX, Centers on a Virus Linked to Vampirism 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

This upsetting and predictable pattern is a vicious cycle that seems to never end and will never end unless gun control is strictly enforced and promoted across the country. We’ve given up on saving our kids: This is our Sandy Hook anniversary shame 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Instead, the show used Mr. Trump, or the idea of Mr. Trump, in predictable ways, as in a sketch he introduced that mocked a limp restaurant gag with mean tweets. Review: Donald Trump on ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

But he is a performer of true versatility, and Haimovitz, a remarkable virtuoso who has always had something of a lover’s quarrel with the music business, never turns in a predictable performance. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

His skills also include crude humor, setting the stage for something livelier, more irreverent and less predictable than the usual ho-hum broadcast. Does Oscar crown await Affleck's 'Argo?' 2013-02-21T16:23:11Z

In his mysterious narratives Mr. Hirsch manages to pay homage to his kibbutz roots while invoking larger and less predictable models of collective action, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. Art In Review: ODED HIRSCH: ?nothing new? 2012-03-22T20:36:27Z

In “My Life as a Russian Novel” he defies her, with predictable results. Emmanuel Carrère’s Disconcertingly Personal and Utterly Gripping Prose 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Understandable, since everything that came before Ralph and much of what followed was predictable, barely memorable, and made a person question why we chose to end our Monday by watching NBC's Emmys telecast. Enduring the Emmys: Have award shows as we know them outlived their purpose? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

I filled a notebook with equations: X number of HPS lamps could take this number of plants, which would equal a predictable yield. The complexities of cannabis: How I learned growing pot isn't for slackers 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

"Watching that is as predictable, I think, as it is dispiriting," Stewart said. A tragedy in Tucson, and more arguing on talk TV 2011-01-11T11:16:06Z

My first year was predictable, largely because of the general education curriculum. I flunked out of clown school 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z

On the flip side, file the next several developments under “wholly predictable”: Eph isn’t at all sorry about bashing his ex-wife’s new boyfriend with a shovel and burning his worm-plagued body. 'The Strain' recap: Time to meet the Master 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Despite a few missed opportunities — a short, predictable wine list and uninspired desserts — this is feel-good Rostang cooking at its finest.  Restaurant Report: Café des Abattoirs in Paris 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Since the law requiring the rule change was passed in 2016, it has sparked a predictable backlash. New GMO labeling rule takes effect, but food anxieties remain 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

The sheer number of characters means that each one is reduced to caricature, each plot thread tied in an insanely predictable and/or unrealistic bow. The 10 Most Disappointing Movies of 2016 So Far 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

“The last thing I ever want to do is be a predictable artist. I love that my fans never know what to expect when I drop a song.” The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

But Masonic handshakes aren't predictable unless you happen to be a Mason – they're mysterious and faintly sinister; barnacles aren't threatening or aggressive; and haloes don't radiate outwards – they sit on saint's heads, or surround planets. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

Click here for more with Madonna — including her thoughts on how the art world has changed, getting back to her roots as a songwriter and how the queen of reinvention considers herself surprisingly “predictable.” Madonna: I Found Out Through Instagram That I'd Been Hacked 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The discussion, to my surprise, focused almost entirely on the Booker prize, and the participants took predictable attitudes to it. Rick Gekoski 2010-08-24T14:48:00Z

That smug role offers no surprise, though, even during a TV interview, and Tannahill’s dialogue wears you down with its predictable positions and banal swearing. Review | Sex, politics and art painted in broad strokes in ‘Botticelli in the Fire’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

There are lots of rather lukewarm, predictable asides like this between rounds that rarely move beyond mildly distracting. Radio review: The Third Degree 2011-03-01T08:00:05Z

It’s a dumb, profane and predictable show that works because it never once aims for greatness. Review | Fall TV 2017: 10 new shows worth checking out (and 5 you can totally skip) 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The title and jacket art for “Julián Is a Mermaid” prefigure a seemingly predictable story about identity and acceptance. Picture Books to Help Kids Weather Our Age of Anxiety 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

It is a world defined by amusing, if routinely predictable and ultimately superfluous stories and characters. Calling All Killers: 2 New Games Offer a Workout 2011-02-28T16:27:59Z

Despite the otherworldly scenery and some predictable tragedy — Robyn can be maddeningly careless about the welfare of her animals — this proves to be a rather logy amble. Mia Wasikowska Plays Robyn Davidson in ‘Tracks’ 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

“Must-have” hospitals possess pricing power There are some predictable nuances to the authors’ findings, which are based on the Community Tracking Study from the Center for Studying Health System Change. How Employer-Sponsored Insurance Drives Up Health Costs 2012-05-12T16:05:34Z

The movie loses its originality as it rolls toward its predictable conclusion, but it’s still lovely to look at. Movie Review: ‘Hotel Transylvania,’ With Adam Sandler’s Voice 2012-09-27T22:34:09Z

His sour take on Mr. Lamar’s Pulitzer is predictable from a man who once joked that the decline of civilization would culminate with “concert rap.” He Has Fans, Fame and an Acclaimed ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Opera. So Why Is Charles Wuorinen So Cranky? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

In the end Ms. Ali manages to orchestrate a dramatic conclusion that’s nifty, if pretty predictable. Books of The Times: Imagining a Secret Life for Diana 2011-06-13T22:41:42Z

The scenes of Dracula befuddled by a mobile phone were familiar; those in which the vampire’s garlic “intolerance” preludes a flatulence joke predictable. Review: Raising the Stakes With ‘Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation’ 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

His tone has strengthened and ripened, and his tumbling patterns have become less predictable. Barbra Streisand’s ‘Partners’ Is a Duets Album 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Over the ensuing years, her family life would take the predictable course for members of the Eastern European immigrant class. How Yoko Ono and a publishing temp saved the Beatles' Holy Grail from the scrap heap 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

They are rooted in brain chemistry, and they are molded, in measurable and predictable ways, by the environment in which children grow up. Teachers aren’t the problem 2012-09-05T11:45:00Z

On Thursday night that meant a concise, predictable and invigorating one-hour set, early in the evening, under the threat of rain. Music Review: Opening for the Eagles, the Dixie Chicks Are Cautious 2010-06-11T22:56:00Z

You may wish it did not all happen in such a perfunctory, predictable way. | 'Super 8': Hey, Guys, Let?s Make a Monster Flick 2011-06-09T15:28:58Z

Cycling at predictable intervals between Keith’s long, interior harangues and his brief, prickly interactions with the director, the play acquires a ticktock rhythm that prevents the buildup of momentum. Review: In ‘American Moor,’ an Insider’s Guide to ‘Othello’ 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Fire of Love” makes much of the distinction between relatively predictable “red” volcanoes and their more deadly “gray” counterparts — “the ones that kill,” as Maurice puts it. ‘Fire of Love’ Review: A Volcanic Romance 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

At hundreds of millions of dollars a year in advertising revenue, the attention focused on "Idol" is predictable. Fox network looks to rebuild after lackluster fall 2011-01-11T22:30:48Z

Rose’s potential scandal is the predictable one: she sees Jack, the handsome band leader, for a romantic row-boat ride. Downton Abbey Recap: Whole Hog 2014-02-10T03:00:27Z

“It would have been too predictable, don’t you think, to find the soul mate?” she said. At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z

Through some predictable coincidences, Holly persuades Charlie to revive their partnership, not as actresses but as actual detectives. ‘Girl Meets World’ and ‘Mystery Girls,’ Sitcoms From Disney 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Or they seem to be: the discrepancies between those assigned identities and other, less predictable aspects of their personalities turn out to be part of an elaborate meta-meta-joke. Movie Review: ?The Cabin in the Woods,? by Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon 2012-04-12T22:00:36Z

Although in some parts this book was a bit predictable, it is fun to read and quite entertaining, with lots of twists and turns. The Pony Detectives: Moonlight, Star of the show by Belinda Rapley - review 2012-06-21T08:00:00Z

Mr. Ma played his own encore before intermission, no less welcome for being predictable: the Prelude of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G. Music Review: In Different Hands, an Assortment of Moods 2010-10-04T21:42:00Z

It's all quite predictable: in fact, you know how good an act is going to be from the build-up, and by Ant and Dec's gibbering in the wings. The weekend's TV 2010-04-19T09:45:00Z

Once training begins, setting good expectations and boundaries for your puppy to prevent predictable behaviors — such as having accidents in the house or barking when left alone — should be a top priority. 5 puppy training tips no one ever tells you 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

"We saw his heart rate accelerating and his breathing slowing down, which is not a predictable response." Melvyn Tan turns guinea pig: are musicians like athletes? 2012-07-03T17:01:01Z

How to Train Your Dragon was a distinctly mainstream confection, with a predictable storyline based on a tried and tested structure. Week in geek's best films of 2010 2010-12-31T14:26:37Z

The consequences are predictable: Kirk loses his job at the cracker factory, Luann starts dating an American Gladiator, and Milhouse begins to lash out. The Simpsons Thanksgiving marathon: the 25 best episodes to gorge on 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

That sounds like a predictable list, but Friedman digs cleverly into each one. The Message of Thomas Friedman’s New Book: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

His actions bring the predictable reactions from Murase, and the bloodshed begets retaliatory bloodshed, which in turn begets further vengeance, as one death leads to another or at least a severe beating. | 'Outrage': ?Outrage,? Directed by Takeshi Kitano - Review 2011-12-02T00:11:28Z

Producers, who operate on a largely predictable schedule dictated by seasons, holidays and the agricultural cycle, are suddenly facing great unknowns. For American Wine Producers, Fear, Uncertainty and Hope 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

The book assumes the form of a mockumentary and reads like an engrossing, if sometimes predictable, popular crime novel. Joyce Maynard’s Second Chances 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Opening times are less predictable, so call ahead to double-check hours and confirm your plans. Tips for (uncrowded) winter visits to Europe 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

That this might be a focus was fairly predictable. Reinventing Givenchy 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The differing choices of footage are completely predictable, an instant Rorschach test of the disconnect between East and West. ArtsBeat: An East-West Divide, Played Out on TV News 2014-02-21T18:05:32Z

Duty compels me to note that blood flows freely in “Right One,” and not always in predictable ways. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

These films act almost as brochures, and their narrative beats are as predictable as those in a romantic comedy. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

That Ms. Schine wraps up her novel in a courtroom, with Joy defending her grandson’s ticket for public urination, shows how pleasingly resistant the author is to a predictable or sentimental ending. Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

But maybe because of a lack of imagination, the result is predictable and even formulaic. Television Review: Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Tveit in ‘Graceland’ on USA 2013-06-05T22:10:10Z

An entirely predictable, mostly honorable movie, “McFarland, USA” tells the story of a washed-up coach who turns a bunch of misfits into a team of champions. Review: In ‘McFarland, USA,’ Kevin Costner Coaches Cross-Country Runners 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

True, the narrative requires a fair amount of artificial contrivance, is a little a predictable, and lurches into melodrama in the final straight – but this kind of story probably demands that. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

The result is a grim and predictable adventure saga that is not nimble but leaden. Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium: Drab, Dreary and Dysto-pointing 2013-08-08T16:08:09Z

When a new, menacing ­orderly and an alluring, one-eyed patient arrive, they throw his predictable peace into ­disarray. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

They've been touring with Palma Violets, another band who some consider to be utterly predictable while others are enjoying presumably as a handy primer on a certain strand of alternative music. New band of the day (Baby Strange No 1,507) 2013-05-07T16:15:25Z

Some of the predictable liberties that Sorkin has taken in adapting fact to fiction are instructive. ‘Being the Ricardos’ Review: Kiss, Fight, Rinse, Repeat 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

His kitchen, which exults in the seafood of the Pacific Coast, also points to the ways in which many California restaurants are adapting in the face of environmental concerns, directing diners away from predictable pleasures. A California Chef Learns to Swim in Changed Waters 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

The question is nothing new and Stewart’s answer was as predictable as Jonathan Swift’s would have been.  “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Billed as a "takeover," Smith's turn as guest host is a predictable stop on his limited press tour for "Emancipation." Will Smith presides over the most bizarre "Red Table Talk" yet – to talk trauma, but avoid the slap 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was sweet and relatively predictable, but it was interesting for the centrality of the grandmother figure in the Disneyfied Polynesian myth. How real is the image of the wise and loving grandparent? 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Once the plan for Jack’s escape is hatched, “Winter in Wartime” turns into a moderately gripping thriller with predictable plot twists and reversals. | 'Winter in Wartime': Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis 2011-03-17T23:08:53Z

My own relationship with weeds follows a predictable arc each year. Take a middle path in weed control 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The latest Liam Neeson vehicle, “Honest Thief,” might be classified as a thriller, but its thrills are predictable in every way. ‘Honest Thief’ Review: An Utterly Forgettable Thriller 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

No sooner does she acquiesce than the predictable strobe of cop-car lights fills the cab of Walter’s Jaguar. ‘Blunt Talk’: Patrick Stewart gets dirty, with mixed results 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

We’re always here for you in an emergency, but not so much for predictable weather patterns. Social Q's: Do Ask Your Date About His Past 2010-07-22T22:16:00Z

This man's agenda may sound horribly cliched, but he's not quite as predictable as this makes out. Jonathan and Julie Myerson on Blue Valentine: almost too painful to watch 2011-02-06T00:08:49Z

In doing so, we realize when we meet Willa at 61, married the second time round to a semiretired lawyer, that she has become sadly predictable, even to herself. Anne Tyler’s Latest Heroine Quits Cushy Arizona for Quirky Baltimore 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

It works like a light switch, and it does get predictable; as such, the scary legend of Cunanan might have better lent itself to a serial-killer season of Murphy’s “American Horror Story.” Review | FX’s ‘Assassination of Gianni Versace’ reaches for beauty but can’t find meaning 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

"The Artist," though it didn't sweep, dominated a fairly predictable evening — despite a surprise hometown win. Silent 'Artist' is golden at Oscars 2012-02-27T06:10:29Z

A sometimes sharp but painfully predictable “Constantine” premieres Friday night, where it has been paired up with the return of the network’s sturdy occult/cop drama, “Grimm.” NBC’s ‘Constantine’: The devil you know a little too well

In a predictable twist of fate, she winds up pregnant. Bridget Jones’s Latest Movie, Now a Novel 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

I decided Tartuffe the imposter would speak in prose, giving him a distinctive voice, and providing a less predictable pace. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z

But why stop with a few predictable choices when there are others deserving of a close-up? Suggestions for Disney on 'Star Wars' spinoffs 2013-02-08T21:06:10Z

They’re yak fests with big heads and emotions, predictable story arcs and no edges, and their future is safe, as are blockbusters. This Year Was a Disaster. We Hope the Sequel Is Better. 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

But it is also the most conventional and predictable. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

This makes him one of the most repetitive and predictable characters on the show, but thanks to that swagger, we don't mind so much. Everything you need to know about "Friday Night Lights" 2010-05-01T23:01:00Z

His observations on the predictable effects of this are often lucid, as is his perspective on this period of his life. The Unreality of Being a Celebrity 2011-05-16T11:00:17Z

It's not quite as taut as any of these stories, and, sans a few true twists, there are large chunks of "Uncorked" that register as obvious, predictable plot devices. Netflix's sweet "Uncorked" is a father-son drama with earthy notes 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the evening is at least slightly predictable, some of it remains a mystery. Get ready for the most tense — and essential — Oscars night ever 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The way you’re feeling right now is as predictable as it is preventable. Chronic illness is wrecking my marriage 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

While Big Hush is still defining its style, it’s already moved beyond predictable genre tags. Big Hush moves beyond genre at Black Cat 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

He’s handicapped by the bland, predictable melodrama of the offstage story, written by Douglas Carter Beane. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z

Two of the four works on Friday were ballet, danced by large-scale companies, yet neither was a gala-style or predictable example of that genre. Dance Review: Sampler of Classical and Contemporary 2010-10-10T21:53:00Z

Blustering official protests from the regime in Pyongyang, sure – those were a predictable response to a movie centered on a plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Before Sony hacking, Seth Rogen was sure North Korea threat was bogus 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

But this was no predictable country set, even though Warren matched their look, wearing denim and a cap: her songs are as unpredictable as her rambling and witty introductions. Krystle Warren – review 2012-05-23T16:20:07Z

Though the magazine didn’t track the response, it was — in the cautious, predictable world of November food issues — a daring move. The Bird Rules the Thanksgiving Magazine Cover 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

There's nothing new here: Meyer is no stylist; her characters are predictable; this is really just good old-fashioned romance with a supernatural twist. Melvin Burgess's top 10 books written for teenagers 2010-06-17T13:46:00Z

This year's Emmys earned mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found the ceremony tame and the winners predictable. Emmy Awards score ratings win despite the odds and mixed reviews 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

In truth, The King of Limbs sounds a little predictable, certainly at first. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-20T00:06:06Z

Los Angeles — The cycle used to be predictable. The Ben Affleck Scandal Meter 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

But it’s also so predictable that you might want to fast-forward through the domestic-drama scenes set inside the hilariously clean and orderly colony, stopping whenever you see something that looks like action or a dinosaur. Television Review: ?Terra Nova? on Fox Has Spielberg Touch ? Review 2011-09-25T19:38:19Z

But "Lovely Molly," as it gradually reveals a horrific yet predictable story, never really gets under our skin. 'Lovely Molly' takes up where 'Blair Witch Project' left off 2012-07-19T20:05:17Z

But there was nothing so easy or predictable about the concert that opened the festival on Tuesday evening at Alice Tully Hall. Music Review: Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-08T23:12:37Z

This election is a lot more predictable than that bigger and scarier one that has hogged all the headlines, but as Donald Trump keeps reminding us on that stage, conventional wisdom has its flaws. Oscar 2016 is almost here: Here’s who will win — and who should 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

From Creole markets and cozy inns to local zouk joints and volcanic beaches, 14 ways to escape the predictable.  The Caribbean ?roundup: In the Caribbean, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-11T19:50:00Z

Over the course of the first gallery lace frees itself from geometric patterns echoing the grid of textiles, and embraces more robust, less predictable, curvilinear patterns inspired by floral and plant forms. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

In fairness, plenty of people around me had a good time — in some party-hearty, cabin-fever cases, a very, very good time — singing along with these perfectly decent and perfectly predictable treatments of Beatles songs. Beatles tribute asks: When I get older, will you still love me? 2011-02-09T22:56:37Z

Since her book excerpt was published five days ago, there have been predictable debates about her credibility. Perspective | The bracing truth and sadness in E. Jean Carroll’s advice columns 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

Patterns don't progress in a predictable way, which makes Feldman's aesthetic radically different from minimalists such as Steve Reich or Philip Glass. A guide to Morton Feldman's music 2012-11-12T19:01:09Z

There's little that's surprising about the film — everyone ends up pretty much where you'd guess — but that predictable quality becomes part of the pleasure of watching it, like a book that's happily reread. 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is predictable but a pleasure 2012-05-10T20:38:20Z

It’s strictly comfort food, 99 percent predictable, though the 1 percent that isn’t — you’ll know it when you see it — is deftly executed. Review: ‘Going in Style’ Proves Crime Has No Age Limit 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Orders for warming cocktails are predictable at a certain time of year. Hot Toddy Season Comes Early This Year 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

But Mr. McCormick’s plotting, with its florid back stories and unsurprising revelations, is ploddingly predictable. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

A gentle inquisitor, Ms. Rogers avoids the predictable. Getting Intimate With the Celebrity Regulars of River Cafe 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Then again, that’s true of the feds, the unions, the chorus girls and almost all the characters who run in predictable circles around Ike. Television Review: ?Magic City? on Starz Is Set in Miami Beach, Circa 1959 2012-04-06T00:24:34Z

In other words, same old same old favoritism and, in tandem, predictable absence of critical distance and perspective. With James Levine Fired, Should We Rethink Maestro Worship? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But Bennett, who reviewed the show, said that Brand’s “magnetic charisma” meant that even predictable material had appeal. Russell Brand’s Timeline of Scandal and Controversy 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

The other segments fall into more predictable territory. ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’ Review: Home Movies 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

In a limo on the way to a Comedy Central roast, Rivers whines to her assistant, "I am so depressed," because she's anticipating the predictable jokes about surgery and aging. Movie Review: Taking Joan Rivers Seriously 2010-05-13T15:28:00Z

A projection on the backdrop transformed the runway into a cyber street, reflecting the urban spirit of the collection, shown for women with sturdy high heels rather than the predictable sneakers. Special Report: Fashion: Victoria Beckham, Alexander Wang and Lacoste bring color and a sense of digital exploration to New York Fashion Week 2011-09-11T17:37:04Z

Up to that point, the vast majority of my relationships had been with white men, the predictable result of years spent in a Maryland prep school and at a Massachusetts liberal arts college. Accepting Applications for a Black Boyfriend 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The resolution, co-signed by six other Republican congressman, was greeted by the predictable snickers. David Copperfield is the magic force behind a must-read congressional resolution 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

For every predictable humiliation – Rae getting stuck on a slide at the aforementioned pool party, the bullying she receives from a group of boys who nickname her "Jabba" – there is another hard-hitting twist. Have you been watching … My Mad Fat Diary? 2013-02-08T12:33:34Z

Reworking his stage adaptation of Ibsen’s play — a study of weaponized truth — Mr. Stone concocts a predictable stew of ancient transgressions and undeserved recriminations. Review: A Long-Buried Family Secret Explodes in ‘The Daughter’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Fixed thinkers, on the other hand, “are warier of social and cultural change and hence more set in their ways, more suspicious of outsiders, and more comfortable with the familiar and predictable.” Perspective | What your wine choices say about the way you think 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Funeral buffs, who cherish the literary opportunities of the graveside, will be dismayed at the meagre and predictable insularity of this selection. Farewell words and music reflect a patriotic austerity and insularity 2013-04-13T23:04:44Z

For them, shows even by the greatest of bands are predictable. Ask the indie professor: Why do people talk at gigs? 2011-07-12T15:08:37Z

If Dahl's pre-existing celebrity meant her less than favourable reviews were predictable, so too were the immediate comparisons to seductive stove goddess Nigella Lawson. What kind of TV cookery shows do we want to see? 2010-05-05T10:45:00Z

Whenever new research shows a link between bees and pesticides, the headlines are predictable. In a fight between environmentalists and farmers, the bees lose. And that stings. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Less predictable was the success of the book’s young readers’ edition, published this month and aimed at children 8 and up. Trevor Noah Thinks Kids Can Handle the Truth 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

But on the way to this predictable conclusion, the movie offers plenty of smart entertainment. Dinner for Schmucks: Carell Goes Crazy 2010-07-29T21:35:00Z

The “Full Frontal” dustup has had the predictable consequence of forcing us to watch Ivanka Trump be cast as a victim. Ivanka Trump, Samantha Bee, and the Strange Path of an Ancient Epithet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

But his efforts fail, because even if the "sight" is disturbing, it, along with one character's death or another's downfall, feel predictable. Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!: "Babylon" is a busy, bawdy and bad orgy of Hollywood nothingness 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Come with me to the agency right now,’” Ms. Bündchen said, adding that she resisted the idea for predictable teenage reasons. Gisele Inc. 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

“It is the predictable outcome of a President who not only dismisses human rights but actually encourages others to flout them.” Sunday Reading: The Khashoggi Affair 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

They understand that the greatest and least predictable effect will be the melting of the polar-ice sheets and the consequent rise in sea level. 'The Flooded Earth': Peter Ward's vision of a world awash in the consequences of climate change 2010-06-10T20:50:00Z

Its choices followed a predictable path of acclaimed movies divided between mainstream and arthouse fare. "Toy Story 3," "Black Swan" among AFI top picks 2010-12-12T21:04:00Z

The Karate Kid at least earns its predictable payoff, despite the nepotism and tourist-brochure China. This week's new films 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

His music drew on, among many other things, the fanfaring keyboard chords of trance, the blips of electro and a classical choir, none of them in predictable doses. An Apt Basement Celebration of Tri Angle Records 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The journey bringing the narrative protagonists face to face with malevolence at the heart of “The Outsider,” however, is not entirely predictable. The slow dread of "The Outsider," HBO's series that defies Stephen King expectations 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

The formula continues in “Tiffany Paintings,” his new, utterly predictable and crushingly obvious series of canvases at Gagosian Gallery. Art Review: Richard Prince at Gagosian and Salon 94 Bowery 2010-05-27T21:22:00Z

In truth, this being a Gordon story, the most predictable aspect is that Theresa questions whether she deserves such good fortune. Mary Gordon’s latest offers thoughtful characters in the throes of change

The list of undeniable greats is predictable, and so a little dull. Michael Cunningham: My fantasy Folio goes to Ulysses and To the Lighthouse 2013-07-16T14:44:16Z

May the predictable fancy restaurants, noisy bars and hipster clothes shops invading downtown take note. wasteLAnd and rest of new music scene in L.A. is thriving with a lowercase T 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The AKC says breeding can be done responsibly and preserves somewhat predictable characteristics that help people find and commit to the right dog for them. ‘Mudi’? Try a toy: American Kennel Club adds 2 dog breeds 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

The game is rarely predictable: animal attacks, flash fires and aggressive, intelligent foes will undo even the best-laid plans. Video Games: Far Cry 3, Hundreds, Zero Escape, Joe Danger Touch and Kentucky Route Zero 2013-01-15T22:38:18Z

We hoped for the best and at the same time raged for the preventable, predictable circumstances that led to her demise. What We Can Learn From the Bobbi Kristina Brown Tragedy 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

As he lived his very predictable life in his sterile confinement, his personality changed. He grew erratic and dangerous. Life and death of Tilikum: “Notorious” orca’s death yet another cry for help for captive killer whales 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

He wants us guys to be weirder, freer, less predictable. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to call seven nominations a snub, but as Kanye would say, “Imma let you finish, but…” This year’s Album of the Year picks are a deserving if predictable lot. Grammy Nominations: Who Got Snubbed? Who Didn?t? 2011-12-01T18:04:37Z

Like us they've learned that no conclusions are forgone and no ending is predictable anymore, not even for the Rickest Rick. "Rick and Morty," resistance heroes, face a new nemesis channeling our current uncertainties 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Each time I pull another layer of wool off my eyes and feel another surge of anger, she gives me a predictable series of looks.  Why I left the GOP 2012-09-10T13:30:00Z

Suffice to say, much like her fascinating and singular career, talking to Anderson is anything but predictable. Laurie Anderson on the American way of dying: “I’ll just clonk you on the back of the head with a brick, put you out so you won’t be there” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

On the other hand I thought it was predictable and the writing in some places clumpy. Cherry Crush by Cathy Cassidy - review 2013-01-17T09:00:00Z

Less predictable was how thoroughly they'd document their earlier days after announcing they'd step back from performing official duties as senior members, which they did with the encouragement of friends. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

Some of the more troubling takes, if predictable, relate the quality of one to his plausibility as an assault defendant. The Jonathan Majors case: the latest celebrity trial variant where women lose 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t have found myself in Tridente had I not been asked to explore a side of Rome that I had always dismissed as too predictable and too expensive. Revelations in High-End Rome 2012-09-28T18:24:21Z

The fable, being a fable, is predictable, but it’s also rough with holes and contrivances. Dance Review: ‘The Legend of Yauna’ Puts Its Hero Through Trials 2014-02-23T23:04:25Z

It’s that Ms. Simpson’s handling of them — particularly climate change — tends to be predictable and flat-footed. Books of The Times: Helen Simpson?s ?In-Flight Entertainment? 2012-03-22T21:51:09Z

One character's sexual performance is "as predictable as a Masonic handshake"; another clings on to her partner like "an aggressive and threatening barnacle"; the news of Barry's death radiates out, "halo-like", from the hospital. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z

This is just as interesting as the Creed family drama, in addition to being less predictable. “Creed II”: Not a knock-out, but lands its fundamental punches 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

This predictable troublemaker tends to the tedious, and the stereotype is the real albatross in . Albatross: Just Call Her Emilia Bad-Elia 2012-01-12T19:03:29Z

“The American food is very predictable — I like that,” says Lane O’Connor, 73, a customer of three decades who drops in for dinner as many as seven nights a week. After 70 years, Annie’s Paramount Steakhouse remains a haven 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

As one security agent told me, “If we were predictable, it would be very dangerous.” Letters: Letters to the Travel Editor 2012-04-13T03:09:54Z

Such chic cynicism is entertaining but gets predictable. Review: 'God of Carnage' at Seattle Rep is amusing but hollow at its core ? like the characters 2010-10-07T20:49:00Z

But unlike last year, where Adele was a clear favorite and went home with six Grammys, this year's big winners are less predictable. Frank Ocean, FUN. are front-runners heading into Sunday's Grammys 2013-02-07T12:42:10Z

But they also appear, often in more interesting, less predictable fashion, as ensemble or supporting characters. Sugar and Spice and Vicious Beatings 2011-03-10T22:21:21Z

The conversations all seemed the same to me: pro forma, predictable, even robotic. 'This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

This turn in thinking and perspective doesn’t happen overnight, and it’s not steady or predictable in every child. Perspective | How much empathy can I expect from a 5-year-old? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

He said that in time the machine “became consistent and predictable.” The Met Packs Up Its Notorious ‘Ring’ Machine 2013-05-17T22:12:45Z

All of it culminates in a predictable ending, albeit with a touch of "Star Wars"-style daddy drama. In its third season, "Cobra Kai's" one-note villain knocks it off its game 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

At home, your food routine may be simple, predictable even. 4 Ways to Stick to Your Diet During Vacation 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The show has provided you with hours upon hours of '...corny, predictable and often ear-piercing' musical delight all with the hopes of being in on the ground floor when we discover 'the next big thing.' 'American Idol:' Idol Gives Back 2010-04-20T07:39:00Z

“How much safer, how much simpler, how much more predictable going into them then, might be.” A Gun Shop and a Family Prone to Breakdowns: What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

But television is done with being dismissed as a banal house-trained purveyor of predictable entertainment; increasingly its stories are not there to soothe but to startle and provoke. TV's alleged 'rape glut' may just be a more reflective reality 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Such surprises can be exciting in fiction, if not in real life, and Campbell eventually realized that a science of prediction, taken to its logical conclusion, led to predictable stories. What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Plus, I was really kinda predisposed not to do a Lady Gaga parody anyway because, well, that’s what everybody in the universe was already assuming I would do, and I hate to be so predictable. Weird Al parody nixed by Lady Gaga 2011-04-20T20:41:00Z

Talky exposition, frequently implausible scenarios, and predictable narrative beats. Hate-watching the GOP: The debates are officially trashy reality TV — and by those rules, Trump’s winning 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Add to that the focused, charismatic performances by the film’s mostly unknown actors, and what at first seems a predictable story becomes surprising — lively with the energy of fresh talent and a prickly modern style. ‘Ladyworld’ Review: Fresh Talents Prove Themselves in a Twist on ‘Lord of the Flies’ 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

In this piece it exemplifies the B-grade nature of the production's aspirations and its insistences on maintaining a predictable linearity to its quest. Even a magical sword can't help "Cursed," a retelling of the Arthurian legend that needs honing 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

Wholly predictable if there are no female associates. Lean in? Here’s why the glass ceiling still exists 2013-09-15T10:59:00Z

But there’s something new mixed in among the mustache-twirling and predictable iconoclasm: a strain of earnestness, especially as the storyline becomes more involved in real-world issues like the persecution of gay Russians. Review: More Power, More Problems in House of Cards 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The comedic roughhousing fell into a predictable rhythm, the character evolution slowed and its sociopolitical critiques grew soft. In its final mission "Archer" takes a hard look at whether this agent deserves to be called super 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z

He learned the language in Italy and speaks it like a pro, adding a heap of class to the predictable story. American youngster best part of Italian "World" 2010-12-29T23:52:31Z

The “Best American” collections are the literary equivalent of K-Tel records, offering up reliable if predictable sounds from a given era. ArtsBeat: Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time 2013-05-17T15:41:49Z

By now, it's too late to stop the piranhas from invading the water park to wreak predictable havoc, despite the heroic interventions of Maddy, Henry and even Hasselhoff. Review: Sleazy 'Piranha 3DD' is sub-par sequel 2012-06-03T01:16:04Z

Happily this eclectic book does not march toward a predictable victory. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z

It’s less predictable and less tangible, all in good ways. Dance Review: Ronald K. Brown and Evidence at Joyce Theater 2012-07-10T22:12:06Z

In “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” it’s deployed as a flat, mirthless inside joke — another pat reference, unfunny and predictable, charged with a yawning desperation to please. ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Review: This Ain’t No Game 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Canned tomatoes with predictable behavior and excellent flavor are particularly necessary at a place like Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, one of the most celebrated pizza destinations in the country. It’s Canned Tomato Season. Here’s What You Need to Know. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

That's because the otherwise terrific director, Jonathan L. Green, allows them to turn into predictable little Victorian cartoons in whom our interest quickly wanes. A Victorian murderer, robots and a waiting room for heaven 2011-03-01T01:49:38Z

Aimed at "readers and students", it is a personable stroll through a predictable canon: Charlotte Brontë, Forster, Keats, Milton, Hardy et al – plus JK Rowling, perhaps thrown in so as not to appear snobbish. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z

“The Oldest Boy” is a touching but rather tame and predictable play. ‘The Oldest Boy,’ by Sarah Ruhl, Opens at Lincoln Center 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Moving from venue to venue, its focus has always been on showcasing art, and not so much on establishing itself as a fixed, predictable institution. CoCA looks back on 35 years of contemporary art with ‘Legacy’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

But if he thought success would unfold in a predictable fashion from there, life had other plans. Jeremy Renner reflects on an unexpected Hollywood trajectory 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The feedback loop created by that becomes very predictable and everything starts to become the same in that situation. Massive Attack Revisits, and Rethinks, Its Classic Album ‘Mezzanine’ 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

School offers enriching challenges with predictable rewards and milestones. @Work Advice: Making the best of a good first job, even one below your ‘skill level’ 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Bullock’s superficial cynicism conceals a crusading heart of a “white knight,” Dix tells Gordon, to predictable skepticism. 'Gotham' Recap: The Story of Harvey Bullock 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

For predictable, you park the car at the Old Faithful visitor center, bike the Upper Geyser Basin’s paved trail and take in the majestic beauty of Castle Geyser, colorful Morning Glory Pool and more. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Their problems with nappies, baby food, minor illnesses, sleeplessness, cohabiting in the deceased couple's home, coping with work and so on are always predictable and rarely funny. Life As We Know It ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

A predictable tale of innocence corrupted, based on a true story that's probably much more intriguing than this movie. May 23 at SIFF: 'The Oath,' 'Nowhere Boy,' 'Queen of the Sun' 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z

Nothing about this garden is predictable, and that includes the tequila bottle tree. The Trinket Garden 2010-11-19T16:21:00Z

That development will in turn make them less predictable. Fighting Wars Past, Present and Future 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Recently Steel abandoned her predictable contemporary world of the rich and famous overcoming adversity, and ventured back into the Regency. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The vibe offers a vintage-cool departure from the predictable tile floors, zinc counters, round marble tables and plastic lattice chairs found in typical Parisian cafes. Giving the Paris Cafe Scene a Jolt 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a predictable scrum outside the Fader Fort in Chelsea, complicated by the arrival of some extremely important people in some extremely small Fiats. ArtsBeat Blog: Touring the Fringes, the Final Hours of CMJ 2011-10-23T21:44:53Z

“It is tempting to seek a moral in the end. … But Hunt isn’t that predictable or didactic,” Eowyn Ivey writes in her review. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

She isn’t furthering her career with her turn in the sweet but wholly predictable, minor movie like Patricia Riggen’s Girl in Progress. It’s a single mama drama. Girl in Progress? Eva Mendes Spins Her Wheels 2012-05-10T10:45:06Z

There's a somewhat predictable moodiness in his style reflected in the reviews. On the Runway Blog: What Alexander Wang Could Do at Balenciaga 2012-11-30T19:59:42Z

There has perhaps never been a public figure ridiculed in quite such a predictable, yet still creative fashion. Perspective | ‘Dumpster fires’ and other ways to evaluate Trump’s presidency through Google 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, he tackles more predictable topics, from stifled lives to the dumbing down of the arts. Blair Dunlop: Blight & Blossom – review 2012-10-04T21:07:00Z

I am tired of Hollywood tarting up a good story with such predictable moves and a patina of international locations and intellectualism. ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

It is made up of a hundred little improvisations that nevertheless add up to a comfortingly predictable cacophony, tailored to the street where you live. In Praise of Quarantine Clapping 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

After all, we wouldn’t tune in to “The Good Wife” if Alicia’s life was mundane and predictable. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew

Suddenly, the harmonies grow more intricate and less predictable, and the lyrics sharpen. Kacey Musgraves, Harper Lee, and the Home-town Dilemma 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

In what's become a tradition for Swift at these ceremonies, she looked Surprised!, dancing in approval to predictable wins by other artists and their performances. Billboard Music Awards 2015: What's the point again? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The plot of “Food and Fadwa” moves in fairly predictable strokes. Theater Review: ‘Food and Fadwa,’ at New York Theater Workshop 2012-06-08T02:00:00Z

His tempo is blistering, his theme is his greatness, his cadence is predictable, and the track goes on for far too long. Song of the Summer: “Bawitdaba,” by Kid Rock 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Years from now,” he said, “when the Earth is just a burning husk and the aliens visit, they will find a box of these, and they will know just how predictable these f_____ _____ are.” The Emmys’ Balancing Act: Predictable, Except When Not 2012-09-24T12:00:40Z

If you are among the many music fans who complain that music award shows are too predictable, you might consider keeping tabs on the Polaris Music Prize from now on. Tanya Tagaq Wins Canada's Polaris Prize 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

The response of the Chinese censors was entirely predictable.” NBA, 'South Park' episodes spotlight Hollywood's China dilemma 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

And though the film is as predictable and saccharine as one might expect of holiday fare, viewers who grew up in the Black church may enjoy seeing a relatable and chaste romantic story on-screen. ‘The Sound of Christmas’ Review: A Gospel Singer Finds Love 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

The slight coarseness that you get from the cornmeal saves the cake from being too soft and perhaps predictable. The spice is right — and unexpected — for this plum cake 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

It straightforwardly lined up all the week’s commercial winners, without the repetitiveness of pop radio’s usual “heavy rotation” songs and in a predictable order. Remembering Casey Kasem, D.J. for a More Eclectic Pop Radio 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

“But at the same time, the selection is a fairly predictable one.” Contemporary Arts Fair Veers Into 'Emerging' Territory 2010-03-03T12:10:00Z

The cups-and-bags initiative was met with predictable snark from various corners of the Internet, not to mention more serious criticism for its conspicuous lack of Mexican-American or other Latino authors. Got a Best Seller? Chipotle May Come Calling. 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

Based around American football players in college, it's predictable frat boy stuff, offering a nauseating cocktail of the crass, crude and desperately unfunny, with a neat sideline in casual misogyny. Doctor Who 2010-04-17T05:45:00Z

For another, they don’t buy the notion that food from the Aegean coast has to be predictable. Greece and Turkey, Together on One Menu at Iris 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Again, hate to be a broken record but this lackluster season necessitates it: The visits were, you guessed it, predictable. "American Idol" recap: Bye, Goldilocks 2010-05-20T13:16:00Z

But the predictable city grid provides an ideal playing field for jumbo Pac-Men to move block by city block and turn any obstructions into little bricks. Review: 'Pixels' Is Fun — for a Bit 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

So perhaps it was unexpected that the actual Academy Awards would deliver a predictable bummer ending. What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Despite its remote locale, many top athletes train in the valley because of the predictable snow and variety of trails. No slopes required: Washington state’s cross-country ski oasis 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

As the film slowly reveals the dark story behind Qala’s success, inviting and then dashing our sympathies, the proceedings can feel a tad predictable, with characters rendered in broad, obvious strokes. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

The best picture winner at the 87th Academy Awards on Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre will be anything but predictable. Oscars 2015: Best picture is up for grabs 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

While the vignettes of choreography can become monotonous and even predictable, the rhythm of the music guides the dancers along, leading them into different realms. Review: Seven Dancers Step Into the Rhythm of a Moroccan Night 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

Tickets for state ones are cheap, but the choreography can be quite predictable. John Perkins' best photograph – an Egyptian lion-tamer 2013-06-26T16:08:55Z

Too often Lil Wayne lapses into predictable flow structures, quick ideas paired with built-in rejoinders: “They say money talks/ but it’s my spokesperson,” and so on. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-10T20:45:00Z

Pandemonium rules and logic founders, predictable lines between victim and aggressor, predator and prey haphazardly erased. “Zootopia” in the Year of Trump: The parallels between a Disney cartoon and the 2016 election continue to surprise 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

But based on what you’ve told me — and the predictable conclusion of your case — I would say that you did absolutely nothing that violated Airbnb’s terms. Another Airbnb user has their account disabled and their appeal refused | Travel Troubleshooter 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

But there’s a way to frame something in a sensitive, reflective way without being predictable. The Oscars have a Dave Grohl problem: A famous straight white guy everyone likes can always find his way on stage 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

The problem, of course, is that criminal behavior, like the rest of human life, is rarely predictable enough to ensure that outcome. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z

So far, so predictable: what matters is what comes next. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

This group’s comedy can be hit or miss, and the turn toward the dingy and dark predictable. On Comedy: The Comedy of Murderfist and The Birthday Boys 2013-12-10T22:37:39Z

But as predictable as this is for television fans, it’s still painful when it’s happening right in front of you. TV’s curse of the sophomore slump: Why genre shows like “Sleepy Hollow” and “Reign” go off the rails 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In a studio's portfolio of risk, a Jason Statham action film represents a relatively predictable outcome: unlikely to deliver a breakout surprise, but reliably flop-proof. Oz the Great and Powerful aims over the rainbow, Side Effects also appealing 2013-03-12T13:05:13Z

Despite stray antipathies, marital spats and affairs — the predictable problems of cooping up strangers for years — very little real trouble or danger befalls the Infinite Family Project. In ‘Perfect Little World,’ a scientist hopes to create the ideal family 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

It recycles clichés about the Midwestern work ethic and the temptations of Hollywood life, and stoops to predictable bathos when the subject turns to Mr. Johnson’s H.I.V. diagnosis. Television Review | 'Magic & Bird': Still Going One on One and Giving No Ground 2010-03-05T23:35:00Z

In “Scaredy Cat” the crimes are just as bizarre, though the outcome is more predictable. Television Review: David Morrissey Plays a Cop in ‘Thorne,’ on Encore 2012-06-11T22:31:34Z

But it’s also a path that leads into some predictable ruts. Yes, and … that joke is sexist: Improv troupes, unchecked creepiness and the toll that being “cool with it” takes 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Wright’s own righteous anger is aimed at the usual pestilent enemies of the natural world and ecological balance — parasitic insects or their human kin, “developers, apparatchiks, celebrities, lobbyists” — her zingers outdistancing predictable “green” rants. A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

“What is marvelous, however, is that she doubled her own dare by leaving in the predictable landmarks, the archetypal characters, the usual clues, and made the whole thing work.” Gloria Naylor, National Book Award Winner, Dies at 66 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

But it’s also impressive in small ways and avoids easy gags and predictable conflicts. Dead Tree Alert: The Real Househusbands of TV 2013-08-15T14:04:31Z

It's not up to Cronenberg standards, but it's smarter, less predictable and much funnier than it sounds. This week's new films 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

He wanted to use very basic, unglamorous visual and linguistic tools to clear a zone for thinking, without interference from the market or pressure to be predictable. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z

It was a little disappointing to see Frank turn into a largely uncaring spouse for so much of the episode—it was a move towards rote antihero plotting that felt quite predictable. “True Detective” recap: Internal investigations and the shoot-out of the century 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Then I switched careers, from the predictable limits of a lawyer’s salary to the erratic income of a writer. Spending Christmas alone? I am – and I will enjoy it 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

It is not, however, fashionable to love acknowledgments, and for good reason: Most of them are numbingly predictable in their architecture, little Levittowns of gratitude. With a Little Help From Their Friends (and Agents and Librarians and Fact-Checkers ...) 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Avoiding predictable narrative beats or sensational twists, “La Afinadora de Árboles” follows Clara without judgment or cynicism as she sketches, stumbles, cries, laughs and slowly feels her way out into the light. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

A train journey, by contrast, is mostly predictable; the landscape may change, but everybody starts and ends at the same point. Train Jam: Strangers on a Train, Creating Video Games 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

This is the logical and predictable result of extreme inequality where 1 percent own half the planet's wealth. As billionaires prep for the apocalyptic "Event," what happens to everyone else? 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Trump’s candidacy may be anomalous, but his tactics, for Clinton, are predictable, even familiar. Hillary Clinton’s Miss Universe Moment 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

The story does follow a relatively predictable path at first, outlining the lead characters’ differentials in politics and access to power. Review: In ‘Reparations,’ Righting Wrongs Comes With a Cost 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The argument between House and Adams is predictable because it emphasizes that House cares little for patients but a lot for what ails them. House Watch: Throwing Up Blood, Again 2012-01-31T15:00:30Z

The players seem to change teams with frightening ease; everyone has a predictable set of pressure points—love, money, loyalty, pride. “The Americans” returns: The new season spins parenthood into a Cold War fable 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

So it was surprising to Corker and also completely predictable, when in front of a screaming audience, Trump yanked him to the lectern with a handshake. Bob Corker is free to speak his mind about Trump. If he could only make it up. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Managing supply ensures “predictable, stable prices,” CBC News explains. Can this radical approach to dairies save U.S. farms? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Sensitive to the nuances of culture and the blurred boundaries between homosocial masculinity and homosexual desire, “The Wound” is affecting and suspenseful even as it hits a few predictable beats. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Golden Globes Show Love and Snubs Some of the nominations were predictable, like those for “The King’s Speech” and “The Social Network,” but in a surprise, “True Grit” from the Coen brothers was shut out. The Oscars 2010-12-31T20:00:30Z

He loathes what he calls “the theater of the already known” — the predictable, the formulaic, the tasteful, the complacent. Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

It’s a trite and predictable lesson from what is arguably this talented author’s tritest and most predictable novel. Books of The Times: ?The Beginner?s Goodbye,? by Anne Tyler 2012-04-05T20:53:51Z

All told Barr’s first interview on a major broadcast network since ABC fired her for posting a racist tweet was predictable, bizarre and bewildering. Roseanne Barr on “Hannity”: a massive misunderstanding 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The tourist was wearing the unofficial uniform of all tourists in Cuba—Che Guevara t-shirt and single-starred beret—and the lookalike had successfully capitalized on the heartbreakingly predictable coincidence. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z

Either way, what in any other composer’s hands could be predictable, Benjamin makes magical. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

What distinguishes him from the pack is his devastating wit and he pulls off the brilliant trick of exploring ideas in a manner that is always logical but never predictable. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z

When very young, my musical sphere of influence was extremely varied and in many ways, made up of my father's rather predictable hangings-on to the 70s punk explosion. Is guitar music on the way out? 2012-06-29T11:40:00Z

Trump's blossoming fits of narcissism are as predictable as the sunrise, as are his frequent lies and exaggerations. What's next for Fox News without its "golden goose" 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z

The show’s abundant stunts, arranged into a long series of short vignettes, are less mysterious than predictable, even transparent. Review: Momix Shoots for Astonishment With ‘Alchemia’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

It’s ambitious, studded with predictable and consequently satisfying twists that reach a critical mass in the finale. Finally, a New Harry Potter Story Worth Reading 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Dance tents at the six-day, two weekend festival are the most consistently packed venues while the stages are far less predictable in their drawing power. Coachella 2015: Steely Dan meets EDM — an experiment worth watching 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

The first is the future, which tends to be complicated, depressing, and fatiguing to read about; the second is the aesthetic of futurism, which is grim and predictable. Sympathetic Sci-Fi 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

It was time for another round of “look, he’s becoming presidential!” which was soon followed by Trump’s predictable return to outrageous tweeting. Perspective | Media coverage of the 2016 campaign was disastrous. Now’s the last chance to get 2020 right. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

“Civil wars ignite and escalate in ways that are predictable; they follow a script,” Walter writes in her introduction, in what I thought was a bit of mechanistic hyperbole. ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z

Each of the eight dancers tears on an individual path, every which way including upside down, intersecting with the others in no predictable pattern. Review: Sit Still and Watch the Dance Revolve 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

A preponderance said yes, and the four groups of four split along predictable lines. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

You find certain art you thought you knew, and the museum it’s in, looking a little less predictable. How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

This has placed on his enemies list not only the zombies - with their ploddingly persistent appetite for human flesh - but also mortals, who are far less predictable. Morrissey rules as The Governor in 'Walking Dead' 2013-02-07T15:30:17Z

The flurry of soul singers to appear in the wake of Amy Winehouse was nothing if not predictable, each seeming to arrive with less in the way of talent and skin-covering clothing. Plan B's new Motown sound 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z

It was reassuring, during a time when nothing seemed normal and predictable about the world, to feel we could see possible outcomes of situations. Tarot helped me take advice from my mother 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Leon Sokoletski The Best Foreign Film Oscar is regularly the least predictable award in the whole show. This week's new film events 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

Cunningham used a stock vocabulary, Mr. Wolff explained, yet never became predictable. Avant-Garde Dancing Feet,Tickling Composers? Minds 2011-03-17T23:23:29Z

And I would hope that their exposure to George and Martha would act as lemon juice on scurvy, derailing some of the more predictable and dispiriting dinner party conversations of 2018. For the Love of ‘George and Martha’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Either way, it’s a predictable problem, and some productions have developed workarounds. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Though the Stones’ set lists have become pretty predictable over the last couple decades, it’s still a lot of fun to watch the band interact. Rolling Stones concert review at United Center 2013-05-29T06:21:00Z

If they’d all ended as bleakly and nihilistically as the seven Channel 4 episodes had, it could have got boring and predictable as well as unrelentingly despairing. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

I found other songs on his album to be more predictable and limited, but they worked far better live, thanks to Bombino's energy and charisma. Bombino – review 2013-04-26T16:43:18Z

The rest of the story is as predictable as it is labored. Books of The Times: ‘Bark,’ Lorrie Moore’s Meditations on Time 2014-02-19T20:59:55Z

Rather it’s a bland, unoriginal action thriller about an entirely predictable quest for revenge. Review: ‘There Are No Saints.’ Neither Are There New Plots. 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Once whatever happens happens, it will all seem perfectly predictable. Ron DeSantis has reached a perilous point: Inevitability 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Evoking a sound world by relying heavily on visuals might feel counterintuitive, but Haynes, 60, has never followed the predictable path. The Velvet Underground Meets Its Match in Todd Haynes 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

It may be predictable, but the rural transplant premise still provides delight and relief, especially as rendered by Knisley, a comic artist with a creative spirit as fresh as the farm. A Comics-Obsessed Cinderella Down on the Farm 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

And few stories follow a more predictable script than the hookup in which one person suddenly wants more. 2010-02-13T03:57:00Z

The only drawback to his material is that it’s tame and a bit predictable. Jerry Seinfeld slays them in Seattle with bits on this and that 2014-02-09T00:03:15Z

Popular comedians are, to my ears, dull, predictable, more "personality" than material. Susan Calman finds that Scottish independence is no joke 2013-05-07T13:52:23Z

The scene of Ian’s tossing the documents doesn’t register; a visual gag involving flutes of champagne, which is predictable but promises to be amusing, is flubbed in the editing. Review: ‘Special Correspondents’ Stars a Fumbling Ricky Gervais 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Despite the novel’s investment in the power and value of great art, Edward’s self-centered, predictable struggles remain merely decorative. Jill Bialosky’s novel ‘The Prize’ tackles art, class and egotism 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The world is less predictable than it was in the industrial age, so you stay relevant by acquiring a portfolio of transferable skills.” Five ways work will change in the future 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

It typifies what are becoming the drearily predictable attributes of today's art coffee-table books. Naked or nude? Laying bare an artistic divide 2012-11-28T16:53:35Z

As Mr. Byrd suggests, no one knows what happened in that elevator, but his approach and the long-winded dances that follow are more predictable than powerful. Review: At Alvin Ailey, Tragic Themes Overwhelm a Dance 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

But the action is so bland and the results so predictable – Willa obviously lied about seeing Hank and that’s the big secret she’s holding – that it’s almost not worth it to find out the answers. The Family: ABC's buzzed about thriller is an intriguing but generic imposter 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Given the difficulty of moving beyond predictable scenarios within the allotted four minutes, few of these plays manage to be formally inventive. Tiny Plays for Ireland 2 – review 2013-03-17T18:39:43Z

But what wasn’t necessarily predictable, when Bee and showrunner Jo Miller debuted their show last month, is just how far “Full Frontal” would push the envelope. Samantha Bee’s wake-up call to the left: “Full Frontal” is a desperately needed slap in the face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Once the initial decimal-point error is discovered, little of "Patrik, Age 1.5" is particularly surprising; things unfold in pretty much the way we expect, right down to the predictable yet endearing final scenes. 'Patrik, Age 1.5': A delinquent and a decimal point make for a fine mix-up 2010-08-19T22:38:00Z

This silly, predictable setup — which hinges on an elaborate misunderstanding of how college admissions work — grows less important as the story wears on and the dancing takes center stage. ‘Work It’ Review: Freestyling Through Senior Year 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

The film’s predictable story and use of familiar visual tropes are less egregious than its gratuitous approach to the death: the sounds of gunshots, the sight of a last text. ‘The 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Major Issues in Brief 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Though not a Christmas poem, it breathes a holiday-like atmosphere, rearranging predictable patterns and recommending a suspension of disbelief in unlikely possibilities. Poem of the week: 'Shadows in the Water' by Thomas Traherne 2010-12-20T10:13:09Z

There’s plenty of the predictable: drunks and scammers and too-public displays of affection. | 'Tales From the Tunnel': Subway Stories at Bleecker Street Theater 2010-08-08T22:44:00Z

But time didn’t permit; all each child got was a bag full of predictable food, with their name written on it and a fancy swoosh after it. How one student’s midday meal became a lunchroom cartoon phenom 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“This may lead drivers to believe cyclists with helmets are more serious, experienced and predictable than those without,” he wrote. The big bike helmet debate: 'You don’t make it safe by forcing cyclists to dress for urban warfare' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

“Felt” builds to a disturbing reversal that is nonetheless, by the standards of horror conventions, utterly predictable. Review: In ‘Felt,’ Amy Everson Plays an Eccentric, Troubled Artist 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

While the witty wordplay and aphoristic metaphysical musings that dominate the dialogue can be often amusing, sometimes profound, the play’s self-conscious navel-gazing starts to feel glib, even predictable, partway into the two-hour piece. ‘Middletown’ at ACT: A little Thornton Wilder, a little Beckett 2013-09-09T21:26:13Z

It’s just that he’s so predictable,” he said. Stephen Colbert briefly breaks down, says Trump’s claims of fraud ‘cast a dark shadow on our most sacred right’ 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Nor is it always predictable in the present what will be regarded as interesting in the future. Hands off our local museum collections 2011-01-14T18:30:38Z

And, of course, they take place at his whim, not in the more organized and predictable setting of a scheduled briefing. Perspective | Trump-era press briefings are exercises in futility — and lying. But we need them anyway. 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

And so the film rolls along to a predictable conclusion: Rockwell's Kenny isn't very interesting and Swank plays her heroine with supercilious blandness, and nothing like the gusto of Julia Roberts's Erin Brockovich. Conviction ? review 2011-01-13T22:29:01Z

It was raucous, unscripted and surprising yet spectacularly inert and predictable all at the same time. Perspective | The House speaker vote is the best thing on TV right now 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

It is only because of this stable climate that we have so successfully populated the world while optimizing our homes, facilities, and agriculture to suit a relatively predictable local climate in each location. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z

Finding My Way: Not every relationship must somehow hue to a predictable path. Perspective | Ask Amy: Former flame worries about loan repayment 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The robot and Frank make a predictable odd couple, one that the first-time feature director Jake Schreier, working from Christopher D. Ford’s script, tries to sell with smiles and soft comedy. Movie Review: Frank Langella in ‘Robot & Frank’ 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z

“I don’t want to be totally predictable, which is kind of hard when you’ve been doing something for 50 years,” he said. Pop: The Rolling Stones at 50 Prepare to Tour 2012-11-08T16:00:00Z

In tone, “Restoration” falls somewhere between the two, offering gentle if predictable insights into its fallible characters’ relationships with an almost perfect masterpiece. | 'Restoration': Claudia Shear at New York Theater Workshop 2010-05-20T02:25:00Z

But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

After a slightly predictable climactic scene of confession, “Slowgirl” winds down slowly to a whispering conclusion. Theater Review: ‘Slowgirl,’ by Greg Pierce, at the Claire Tow Theater 2012-06-19T02:00:10Z

And yet the gentle drama that they've fashioned errs on the side of the predictable and reassuring, downplaying the passion and ire of Gralton's politics. 'Jimmy's Hall' is a subdued story of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The twists and pivots were pretty predictable and the battle lost visual coherence toward the end. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Finale: The Ones Who Live 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Pixar favourite Toy Story 3 was the predictable victor in the best animation category, while Randy Newman's song from the film, We Belong Together, also romped home in its category. Oscars 2011: The King's Speech resonates as The Social Network blips 2011-02-28T06:43:17Z

Mr. Kikta’s music, in seven sections, had largely predictable rhythms; Mr. Walker’s 10 dancers, with end-stopped phrasing, seemed more trapped than liberated by them. Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Before the virus, the sports calendar was predictable, almost reassuring. Perspective | After coronavirus delays, sports leagues are back. But hockey in August feels weird. 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Season 1, Episode 4: “Family Interference” With a few exceptions, “I Am Cait” now contains the predictable wackiness of most other reality shows. 'I Am Cait' Episode 4 Recap: Here Come the Kardashians 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Generally speaking, Ashbery’s work has some rhyme but absolutely no predictable rhyme scheme; his writing is rhythmic mostly at the points where he wants to underscore the sentiments in question. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

Symmetry and cohesion, and an aversion to predictable formula, distinguish the tandem from many of its peers that played at Perry's over the weekend. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z

Yet this time he too works in a predictable mode. Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z

Not quite so predictable Harriet learns, however, when a bombshell from his past is revealed. ‘This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance!’ review: At 78, this heroine has secrets 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Her femininity loosens them all up a bit, a predictable narrative turn nearly obscured by Ronan's believable performance. The Way Back: A Good Walk, Almost Spoiled 2011-01-21T09:35:00Z

Beer cocktails, then, are a welcome upgrade from the predictable cooler full of bottles at summer barbecues. Beer cocktails put a new twist on summer refreshments 2011-07-18T15:06:04Z

But its primary focus is the initially tempestuous, gradually harmonizing odd-couple relationship between Biddle and Sarah, and as it traces this aggressively heartwarming dynamic, the play surrenders to obvious and predictable rhythms. Review | Good grammar is essential to the D.C. judicial history lesson that is ‘Trying’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Circle Mirror Transformation is wispy, with a fairly predictable curve in which life echoes art and is helped by it. Macbeth; Circle Mirror Transformation; The Paper Architect – review 2013-07-13T23:05:59Z

The architectural world is currently in the grip of a predictable reaction to the boomtime cult of the icon, when symbols of architectural genius garnished the works of rampant capital. Brilliant biennale 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

Milestone anniversaries are supposed to be predictable events. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

That's the blunt advice for Japanese visitors to Scotland in a new guidebook that looks beyond the predictable round of golf and a stroll along the Royal Mile. Try the Irn Bru, leave the flat sausage, advises Japanese guide to Scotland 2012-07-03T17:11:32Z

A challenge of crafting a story around illness, mental or otherwise, is that in life, flare-ups are neither moral nor entirely predictable. ‘Broken Diamonds’ Review: Illness as a Narrative Convenience 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

And if the last act is predictable, it's all the more moving and disturbing for it. Debut fiction 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

There are so many exhaustingly predictable cop shows, but “Justified” is textured, surprising and packed with fascinating performances. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Moss’s appropriation of “Swan Lake” is a diabolical twist, but his predictable adagio choreography, here and elsewhere, makes little impact unless the exacting Ms. Mey is dancing alone. Dance Review: Faustin Linyekula and Dean Moss at MoMA 2012-10-27T07:20:07Z

Photo: KPA This trio of outdoor screenings seem, at first sight, a predictable choice for their settings. This week's new film events 2011-08-05T23:12:02Z

History is even less predictable than the Bard. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Important life lessons are learned, along totally predictable lines: Women are shallow, needy, whorish and/or prim, but wind up subjugating us anyway. "The Change-Up": Bateman, Reynolds buddy comedy gives us the willies 2011-08-05T23:01:00Z

American Airlines, which filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, is among the last of the major carriers to do so, raising predictable questions for customers about how the changes will affect them. In Transit Blog: How Does the American Airlines Bankruptcy Affect You? 2011-11-29T20:59:48Z

Mr. Bulger was a predictable target for suspicion because of his decades of involvement in murders, drug running and funneling arms to the I.R.A. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“Having that distraction that is also safe and predictable, I think is really what people are looking for,” says Groening. Are you binge-watching reruns of your old favorite TV shows? You’re having a natural response to COVID-19 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

But at the current rate, prevailing AI technologies will likely remedy these discrepancies with predictable speed. Making "the last Beatles record" with AI: Cool restoration of John Lennon vocals, or novelty act? 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

The clichés alone doom the movie, from the forced whimsy of the pair's adventures to the predictable lessons in rejecting life's rotten apples and embracing one's makeshift family. 'The Odd Way Home' is a lost cause 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Mountains tend to be a bit more predictable. 'Transformers' jumpers up in birdland 2011-06-29T21:47:00Z

Yes, the ending is wildly improbable and hilariously predictable, but I wouldn’t change a single note. Review | An irresistible romantic comedy to begin your new year 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

Social dancing references are threaded throughout the three works, adding warmer tones to their classical modern vocabulary, breezy spatial patterns and predictable depictions of romantic entanglements. Dance Review: Movements in Jazz, With Pollock and Coltrane 2010-03-01T22:27:00Z

Some moviegoers and critics will probably dismiss “Prom” as just another predictable offering from the Disney formula factory. | 'Prom': A Disney Take on the Big Night ? Review 2011-04-29T04:03:01Z

After all, vacation rentals are among the least consistent and predictable travel products. Perspective | How to choose a vacation rental 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Those series are more straightforward entertainment, not as informational, and therefore they present more formulaic, predictable characters who become a stand-in for certain emotions. How the real-life "Cheer" team became fodder for an "SNL" spoof and memes 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The plot is predictable, but the inevitable showdown is, appropriately, the movie's highlight, a ferocious hands-on battle — save for the balletic bamboo pole interlude — on a busy, night-lit expressway, with semis and cars roaring past. 'Kung Fu Killer' is standard issue but kicks it up with cameos 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

She moved to fiddle for a romping reminder of her country roots, then it was back to efficient – if more predictable – electric guitar duets on bluesy songs, such as Jailbreak. Larkin Poe/Georgia Ruth – review 2013-07-24T18:08:39Z

Without the angles and artistry of Coppola, “Solo” lost its luster, flattened out by the predictable patterns of the choreography and Anthony Huxley’s wistful stares into what is known as the modern dance corner. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

What was more surprising — or, for the cynical, more predictable — was the way it percolated up. 2018: The Year in Stuff 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Lippman also isn’t interested in pushing only bestsellers, even though they have a more predictable audience. Review | What do women want? One company is betting it comes between two covers. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

One could argue that this episode is a little too predictable. ‘Veep’ Season 5, Episode 4: The Death Bump 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

However predictable their arcs, these characters are far more fascinating than the usual lifeboat crew, and Mr. Dawkins, a Chicago playwright making his New York debut, deserves credit for ushering them to the stage. Review: In ‘Charm,’ Challenges Emily Post Never Dreamed Of 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

Yet we play with the audience’s expectations, and we don’t want to be too predictable. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: Aliens, Romance and the Vicious Brothers 2014-04-25T17:00:57Z

Presumably “Legends” is meant to seem more serious than those shows and skew more male in its viewership, but it succeeds only in being more mechanical, predictable and thin. ‘Legends,’ a New Drama on TNT Starring Sean Bean 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

In some ways it's unimaginable and in other ways it's almost completely predictable for the pendulum to have swung to this place. Comics author Brian K. Vaughan on his global hit "Saga" and making art in troubled times 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s possible “Mindhunter” may settle into a more predictable monster chase. Review: Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ Is More Chatter Than Splatter 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

"People do really want to see the old hits but we don't want to do them in a predictable way," he said. Pythons reunite for London show 2013-11-21T14:53:17Z

Sure, the echoes of boos that came at the end of the show were meant for Kanye West’s pyrotechnic-filled closer, but my jeers are aimed at this predictable mess. Billboard Music Awards 2015: What's the point again? 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

“We want to play with the idea of what is tribe, what is Africa, what is the future, and mix it all up without being predictable.” Afrofuturism: The Next Generation 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

One problem may be that the secrets are fairly predictable. Novel take but predictable revelations in 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

And it’s not a fair or predictable opponent. Perspective | Tom Perrotta’s ‘The Leftovers’ imagined 2 percent of the population disappearing. That could be our reality. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Bates's view is that Parker was never predictable in his own time, so why should he be celebrated predictably now? Music picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z

Travel and food TV shows about your own city tend to be predictable and full of clichés. What our writers love this week 2012-02-01T22:04:08Z

In Fisher Stevens’ “Palmer,” Timberlake takes a rare leading role in a predictable but tender redemption drama. New this week: ‘Resident Alien,’ Arlo Parks & ‘Palmer’ 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

It opens with that board meeting, a theatrically deadly series of speeches at which the smarmy Christian characters spout the predictable benighted outrage. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z

“The Goldbergs” is the most predictable and least witty. Television Review: ‘Surviving Jack,’ With Christopher Meloni as a Crusty Dad 2014-03-26T21:50:31Z

“You want to change who your protagonists are, what your focus is. I don’t want anything to be predictable.” In ‘The Crown,’ a Young Queen, but a Young Woman, Too 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

The ample music score includes a fairly predictable array of New York-themed songs. Review: ‘New York Spring Spectacular’ Barrels Into Radio City 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

The show is shorter, the acceptance speeches less predictable. The Indie Spirit Awards and the Oscars, or (Why Does Hollywood Hate Itself?) 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

It’s uniform and predictable, tasting mainly of sauce, brought together by the rich texture of cheese and the bland crunch of crust. The Kings of the Dollar Slice Build a Better Pizza 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Whereas Hollywood’s long award season often leads to a fairly predictable Academy Awards, the Oscars’ European equal in prestige is entirely opaque. Predicting the Palme d’Or a guessing game 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

He said the most vulnerable jobs in the robot economy are those involving predictable, repetitive tasks, however much training they require. Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs? 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

Along predictable lines, some call for better government regulation. How America’s most famous farmer can appeal to left, right and center 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

It turns out that oceans are much less regular and predictable than we, in our landlubbering ignorance, had presumed. Explorer : Mud, Leeches and Stunning Beauty in Tasmania 2013-01-25T17:51:24Z

In the midst of "Safe House's" predictable mayhem and unoriginal plotting, Washington is fun to watch as he outsmarts everyone again and again. 'Safe House': Denzel is a fun break from walls of familiarity 2012-02-08T20:22:04Z

This jadedness could easily have curled into full-on repulsion by Saturday evening when the Cheeky Girls turned up to a predictable fanfare that was deemed acceptable because it was ironic. Glastonbury 2010: Meet the celebrities 2010-06-28T07:00:00Z

There are horribly predictable clashes too with a posh radio producer, some of which are wince-inducing. Happy Tuesdays 2010-07-21T07:00:00Z

There were absolutely no problems with this book, apart from a slightly predictable ending - though without it, there would probably be no book. By Any Other Name by Laura Jarratt - review 2013-04-19T08:00:00Z

Between predictable, commonplace plot turns and characterizations of music business types that are even more obnoxious than the norm, the movie’s straining for effect is less than ingratiating. ‘Fisherman’s Friends’ Review: A Tale of Unlikely Chart-Toppers 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

What it offers on its own is tepid and predictable. ‘Out of Blue’ Review: Seeking a Suspect in a Suspect Adaptation 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

He insults feminists, delights in trolling and trots out the predictable complaints about cancel culture and people who are triggered. The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

Collins doesn't always steer away from melodrama, and the star-crossed lovers motif is so heavy-handed that the conclusion is fairly predictable. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z

Of course, I’ve come up against plenty of the predictable tropes I anticipated as an HBO-watching teenager, but I’ve more often found that men defy the cliche of superficial, unemotional wanting. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

Knowing that resignation was not an option for such a career insider, Mann wonders instead why Powell didn’t do more to deter his inexperienced president from such a predictable fiasco. Dick Cheney and Colin Powell: The Odd Couple 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

As the 21st century began, there was a surge of interest in modular analog synthesizers — a backlash against predictable, sterile digital sounds. Don Buchla, Inventor, Composer and Electronic Music Maverick, Dies at 79 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Once freed from the museum, I wanted to see the sculpture in the relative wild, popping up in the midst of the meadow or interrupting a predictable route. Noguchi in Suburbia Vs. Noguchi in Nature 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

"We were becoming a bit predictable," he said of Cirque in general. Director Michel Laprise aims for the unpredictable in Cirque du Soleil's 'Kurios' 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Their most predictable behaviors were like leopards in the ceremony of their beings, in sickness and health, for better and worse. Modern Love: We Should Dance While We Can 2010-11-28T04:30:00Z

Here’s a startling news item: “The Intouchables,” a lively if largely predictable Parisian comedy about a wealthy quadriplegic and his ne’er-do-well immigrant caretaker, has become the biggest international success in the history of French cinema. “Moonrise Kingdom”: Wes Anderson’s mid-’60s love story 2012-05-23T19:55:00Z

The Gaffneys live a predictable life until the Joneses move in next door. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Riverdale’ and ‘Royal Crackers’ 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Safe, predictable choices often take top honors, while the brooding and more complex picks are prone to be left to the wayside. Is the Movie Industry Guilty of Dog ?Breed-ism?? 2012-01-31T17:22:56Z

But as the music progressed, the performance was impassioned, exciting and certainly never predictable. Music Review: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:37:45Z

Perhaps it was predictable that the "Lost" creators would reintroduce old characters and leave new questions unanswered. "Lost" leaves fans with still more questions 2010-05-24T06:06:00Z

There are several implausible plot points and a predictable ending. Bethenny Frankel's 'Skinnydipping' makes a splash 2012-05-02T19:16:06Z

It’s rare that a play manages to be both predictable and confusing. Review: O, for a Muse of Fire, or a Comptroller, to Save ‘Popcorn Falls’ 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The Gucci run of show was predictable: tailoring, more casual knits, then lights down to introduce sleek variations on a tuxedo. The Tough Side of the Alpha Male 2013-01-14T17:46:09Z

The play attracted predictable headlines about religious controversy returning to the National, but there was plainly more going on than straightforward agitprop. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

“One of capitalism’s primary goals is to turn us all into wallets, into predictable algorithms. And I’m an inconsistent, messy, dysfunctional human being. I feel like saying, ‘I don’t know, I’m a mess’ is resistance.” Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

In their ticktock alternation, they could easily have seemed predictable. Review: The Ghosts of Michael Brown, in ‘Until the Flood’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The splashy encore, when the plot is finished and the guys don glittery suits descended from on high, whips the crowd into a predictable frenzy. | 'Million Dollar Quartet': On Broadway With Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Company 2010-04-12T02:19:00Z

There was predictable outrage when Chewbacca was killed off in a tangential novel. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

Instead, they find their footing in ritual and routine, in peaceful and predictable exhaustion, in the hardiest kind of love. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

Strapped to their type of plethysmograph, they responded in predictable patterns she labelled "category specific". Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z

In “Stomp a Waltz,” from 2006, set to music by the Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos, Ms. Nelson incorporates a predictable use of weight, breath and stomping for bodies that snap and pulsate with robotic precision. Dance Review: Handbook on Elegance Takes Form and Flight 2011-08-10T22:26:58Z

Merle was an easy and predictable character to create. “It feels like we’re watching misery porn”: Salon’s “The Walking Dead” experts break down the show’s issues with race and representation 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Several took counterintuitive approaches, writing music that avoided the predictable and genuinely sounded contemporary. At Tanglewood, You Can Hear 8 Concerts in 3 Days 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Numbers matter less than publicity; random incidents work better than predictable ones; and news travels fast. Faith and Reasons: Two Authors Explore the Persistence of Religious Feeling 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

What can I tell viewers who draw great enjoyment from something so simple, delighting in this show’s pseudo-spiritual cheerfulness and utterly predictable premise? Perspective | ‘Magnum P.I.,’ ‘Manifest’ and the problem of reviewing fall’s dreadful new shows 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

His movies are so predictable: A decent guy needs a pick-me-up, and, just then, a woman who’s too good to be true shows up to give it to him. Should you watch Cameron Crowe’s TV show ‘Roadies’? Let’s talk it out. 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

This lack of practical detail means this documentary plays as a human-interest story, built from predictable beats of adversity and triumph. ‘Not Going Quietly’ Review: Into the Long Fight 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Which is not to say that theater was a predictable comfort zone for Bergman, who after all was married five times. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

For the past 50 years, every Kennedy drama except Oliver Stone's has fallen into the same predictable categories. The coverup continues: The Kennedys in Hollywood 2011-04-01T14:01:00Z

Irritating your partner keeps the boredom at bay, gives you something to do, and reassures you by keeping the dynamics between you comfortably predictable. 15 ways to really annoy your partner 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

The thrill of overacting, the rush of sinking one's teeth into a predictable archetype! The Wolfman: Del Toro and Hopkins sink their teeth into each other 2010-07-13T12:08:00Z

Doesn’t it seem strange that people are still willing to plunk down good money for gift cards that aren’t linked to them or their recipients in the utterly predictable case of loss? Seriously? He Gets an Early Vaccine? 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

But the only thing as frustrating and predictable as corporate silence is mainstream media and commentators making a political game show out of the existential fight for bodily autonomy. Cable news needs to stop treating abortion like political horse race 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Once in a while the show earns a laugh with an original thought, but far more often it traffics in lazy, predictable, exhausted gags. | 'Viagara Falls': Bernie Kopell and Lou Cutell at Little Shubert Theater 2010-07-26T20:10:00Z

But underappreciated occupations deserve better than the cliché-clogged, utterly predictable “Life on the Line,” a terrible movie about the workers who keep the electrical grid functioning. Review: ‘Life on the Line,’ a Plodding View of High-Wire Labor 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

THE scene last Tuesday night at a shopping party to preview the new Versace for H&M collection was fairly predictable, if you didn’t count the midnight concert by Prince. Designer-Retailer Union Remains Lucrative 2011-11-16T23:30:58Z

The Oscars are upon us again – and this year’s are both the most predictable and most potentially explosive in years. Oscars 2016: a primer, a timetable – and final predictions 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Bennedith, it turns out, is a woman who follows the improvisational comedy rule of “Yes, and…” Like the novel in which she appears, her experiences have predictable beginnings, mind-bending middles and astonishing ends. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

But living and working in Brooklyn was a very predictable path; this is like a deviant path. Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

It is all a bit predictable, but then over the last 50 pages, Kassabova unleashes a smart turn of literary speed with a deliciously unexpected ending. Villa Pacifica by Kapka Kassabova ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:00Z

It's all a bit tame, predictable and muted; the inevitable revelation of German decency seems contrived and there's an outrageous plot cop-out towards the end. Cross of Honour – review 2012-09-27T21:15:02Z

Each repetition feels in retrospect as if it were predictable. Steve Reich at 80, his finger on the pulse of a bewildered country 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

But Luma doesn’t have a predictable program of exhibitions, artist residencies or performance pieces. A Space for Cultivating Creativity, 13 Years in the Making 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Peppered with cliches and predictable banter, “The Alienist” relies mostly on its atmospheric details to draw viewers in. Review | Long past its bestseller heyday, ‘The Alienist’ arrives late to a 19th-century crime spree 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

If you were reading the pages, you’d be in more predictable locales: bed, desk, beach, couch, train. Perspective | Let’s talk about audiobooks: best narrators, best listening speeds and why we like them to begin with 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Dao’s choreography is predictable, beginning with its faintly militaristic opening. Dance Review: Ailey II, ABT II and Taylor 2 at Joyce?s 1.2.3. Festival 2010-04-18T21:55:00Z

Weilerstein and her director, Elkhanah Pulitzer, are aiming to rethink how artists connect with their audiences by reconfiguring the traditional concert format, which they feel has gotten, if not quite stale, predictable. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

And this relentless use of ballet technique as exclamation points made "Preludes and Fugues" increasingly predictable. Twyla Tharp's 50th anniversary program, while graceful, becomes predictable 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

It was even less predictable than promised: The first volunteer was a middle-aged man who introduced himself as Ted Jacobsen, boasting a Louis Armstrong vocal impression. A one-of-a-kind performance from Sarah Hughes — and a handful of audience members 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

The day before I went to Company, it was confirmed that the actor formerly known as Meghan Markle, 37, is pregnant, and amid all the absurd hyperbole there were some wearily predictable digs. Marriage by this age! Babies by that age! When will we stop giving women deadlines? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” an expedition to Antarctica discovers an alien city under the ice, with predictable results. Review | The perfect science fiction, fantasy and genre-bending tales for the chilly days ahead 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

But mostly, the story is scattered and unfulfilling—a portrait of youth that doesn’t quite go anywhere, a collection of disjointed vignettes that follow nearly every predictable story beat in cinema. We get it, you love the ’80s! John Hughes nostalgia trap catches “Red Oaks” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

The story is as predictable as expected, with the usual guns, cars and money, though drawn out to an unhurried 158 minutes. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Not a predictable one, however, which is all to the benefit of this incisive, funny cinematic parable, shot and edited in a disarming, documentarylike style. Review: The ‘Glory’ of a Good Deed (and Its Fallout) 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Critics and audiences have predictable functions for each of his films: we slam it, they go see it. Box Office Weekend: Pixar's Toys Beat Sandler's Boys 2010-06-27T14:25:00Z

Her pain is brutal and regular, breathtaking and predictable, devastating and perfectly ordinary. "Conversations with Friends" challenges us to rethink the desirability of the woman in pain 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

You will not be surprised to learn that he has no evidence to add, and his response is simply a predictable rehashing of the same flawed reasoning he has exercised throughout. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z

Geese are becoming much more predictable with resent cooler temperatures. Potholes Reservoir walleye action remains good 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

The aim here is to offer tours of the Danish capital without taking people around the city’s predictable monuments and museums. Top 10 cool city tours around the world: guided walks with a twist 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

There's a shift going on, in that it's no longer about making the theatre-going experience as centralised and as predictable as possible. Edinburgh festival 2011: where National Theatres meet 2011-08-02T20:30:02Z

Incidentally, almost nothing in American life has become more predictable than political speech. Jokes and Shame, from Chris Rock to Donald Trump 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Functional, in the same way a railway arch might be for a bank holiday rave, La Vie is also pretty predictable and devoid of imagination. This week's new singles 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

About programming, Mr. Taylor told him “not to be too predictable and to keep the audience guessing,” Mr. Novak said. The Paul Taylor Company Without Paul Taylor 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Frances' remarks and Paul's responses feel predictable, and offer none of the almost furious blurring of boundaries and emotions that occurred in Mia's segments last season. "In Treatment's" darkest season yet 2010-10-23T23:01:00Z

But even when it arrives, in predictable violence, the reader can only gape in awe. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Or at the very least, movies would be less predictable, less deserving of being called "product." The delightful disappearance of Jean-Luc Godard 2010-08-30T18:31:00Z

Even more cleverly, while Samberg makes a hopefully credible name for himself in Britain, he is keeping his profile high in a reassuringly predictable manner in the US. Andy Samberg: a boy who deserves to do good 2012-06-13T10:18:00Z

Ming-Trent, though, pulls off the perhaps the most challenging assignment: satisfying the expectation for a larger-than-life Falstaff without pushing the predictable bombast button. Review | Shakespeare returns to Central Park with a ‘Merry Wives’ that lives up to its title 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

It was all formal, stately, predictable and curiously reassuring. Review | Trump has tried to coopt the Army. This new museum shows why that won’t be easy. 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Though everything about the show was predictable, from her three costume changes to the quartet of shirtless male dancers huffing and puffing around her, it was solidly entertaining. Alexandra Burke ? review 2011-02-11T18:04:26Z

But in the end, the play seems familiar and predictable. Red Bud ? review 2010-10-26T20:45:00Z

The exchange was a totally predictable display where Tapper expressed moral outrage and Bossert offered the same moral equivocating we have seen from all of Trump’s lackeys. One more lesson from Charlottesville: Our comedians are more ethical than our president 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

The same could be said for the filmmakers, who hit predictable beats in this disposable comedy. ‘Let’s Be Cops,’ a Comedy About a Ticket to Confidence 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

So judgment based primarily on taste, like most art criticism, is inherently conservative, predictable, fixed. An Art Critic in Africa: In Mali, Finding Art as Authentic as Life Itself 2012-04-16T18:59:43Z

If the end result was predictable, the process by which it was reached was nonetheless riveting. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Some critics found the story predictable, but most said the movie was an easy, entertaining watch. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Great’ and ‘Graduate Together’ 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Jensen said that other growth in the category was more predictable, like reed diffusers and other room enhancements. The Beauty Products That Got Us Through 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

When a man gets #MeToo’d — which is to say, when a man experiences the consequences of his offenses against women — a predictable cry emerges from the predictable corners of the internet: What about his art? ‘Know My Name,’ a Sexual Assault Survivor Tells the World 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

But regardless of where a show falls on this television continuum, there are some predictable elements — celebrity judges, elimination rounds, and dramatic cutaways to depict the contestants’ backgrounds. Why you should catch up on Netflix's addictive "Rhythm + Flow" 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Despite its somewhat predictable narrative arc, the novel captivates with its high emotions and rich images, many of which, like “a sugared Amherst,” carry echoes of Dickinson’s poems and letters. ‘Miss Emily,’ by Nuala O’Connor: a fictional look at the Belle of Amherst 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

More often, it’s where writers launch into a caricatured plot point overflowing with a predictable cast of characters: the snobbish maître d’, the avant-garde chef, the haughty sommelier. You are what — and where — you eat: From the Lanford Inn seafood buffet to those “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” organic strawberry donuts 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Thai police looked baffled but, thanks to his FBI training, he could guess that Lisa must have done something completely predictable and stolen someone's passport. Desire by Louise Bagshawe 2010-04-12T23:05:00Z

Anthony's plotting is a little slack, and the ending predictable. New in crime fiction: talented debut mysteries and thrillers by Matthews, Dugoni and Martini 2011-06-08T21:22:03Z

There are some predictable complaints from locals about presumptuous Americans. The Lovers by Vendela Vida ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:03Z

For Bjorn, though, the aversion to confrontation is more complicated: Irked by his overly predictable life, he harbors a nascent attraction to Patrick’s unfettered solipsism. ‘Speak No Evil’ Review: Impolite Company 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

But nothing is quite as predictable as it seems. A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

And despite its vaguely unsettling clinical ambience, very little about the film as it makes its way to an ultimately flat and predictable final twist manages to feel tense or thrilling. ‘False Positive’ Review: Pregnancy Scares 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The themes are predictable: I brought it on myself. Ashley Judd Speaks Out About Twitter Abuse and Rape 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

As entertaining as it is predictable, “Creed III” does exactly what you expect, delivering nicely balanced helpings of intimacy and spectacle, grit and glamour. ‘Creed III’ Review: A Franchise Finds New Fertile Ground 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

For its part, “The King” focuses on Hal-Henry, turning his evolution into a predictable journey into self-awareness, with brooding looks and noble intentions. ‘The King’ Review: Once More Unto the Breach (but Why?) 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In marathon running, “hitting the wall” is predictable — as are the rewards for powering through to the other side. ‘Oh, we’re still in this.’ The pandemic wall is here. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I never want anything I do to seem predictable,” he said. Sia and Charli XCX Cover Bleachers on a Women-Led Version of 'Strange Desire' 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

"I've been offered a few things to do there over the years," she says, "but I didn't just want to do a revival of Private Lives or something – that would have been too predictable." Joanna Lumley 2010-06-12T23:02:00Z

This domestic drama, about an attractive New York restaurateur who returns home to Ohio to be there for her father who's dying of cancer, proceeds for the most part along predictable lines. 'Better' is good look at woman's attempt at great happiness 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

This rough tween patch will ease, and you will want your relationship with her to be strong, loving and predictable, not conditional and fleeting. Perspective | Our tween daughter needs to ‘earn’ her phone. Are we overthinking it? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Third, this segregation results in galleries of academic 19th-century American art that are predictable and monotonous, effectively deadening the works on view and shortchanging the viewer. American Folk vs. Academic Art 2013-01-31T13:00:00Z

Mr. Tracz’s book is along the same lines: predictable in its contours, occasionally quirky in its details. Review: In ‘Be More Chill,’ a Nerd Finds Popularity in a Sci-Fi Pill 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

In fact, the characters are predictable, almost stock and formulaic, as is the melodramatic story itself. ‘Only the Strong,’ by Jabari Asim 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

He's been typecast in predictable mentor/boss/voice of authority roles since the original "The Matrix," maybe earlier. Laurence Fishburne does justice to "Thurgood" 2011-02-24T15:25:00Z

And the predictable narrative arc, the happenstance lighting from scene-to-scene and Lathan’s minimalist take on the material all adds up to something you might watch once and promptly forget about. ‘On the Come Up’ Review: Battle Rap’s Next Big Thing? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

That image of the confident, in control showman who always comes out on top, it’s nothing if not predictable. Is Originality Even a Worthy Ambition Anymore? 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Carter is a reluctant refugee, with understandable feelings of connection to her former life and predictable teenage rebellion to any situation that unfolds without her consent. When a kidnapped child comes home: The surprising emotional intelligence of “Finding Carter” 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

So far so predictable, and, it has to be said, not wholly inaccurate. Animals United defeat themselves 2010-12-20T11:11:45Z

Leo may not be as predictable as an imaginary friend, but he can see Jane for who she is, which, she learns, is just as important. Jenny Han’s new YA novel and other best kids’ books for September 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

In a move at once strange and predictable, they conceive of the Internet as essentially a giant garage. How the Garage Became America’s Favorite Room 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

But Emmy voters may learn to regret this predictable decision. Emmy Predictions: Amid newcomers, will ‘Thrones’ slay again? 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

Though not without flaws and too prone to sweeping, melodramatic outbursts that become predictable, even cloying, the opera is theatrically and musically effective. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Still, the critique raises the question of whether there is complicity in the red carpet’s predictable shallowness. On the Red Carpet, a Revolt Builds Over the Pageantry 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Even in years when the winners list is predictable, the show itself has a chance to stand out for all the right and wrong reasons. The 2020 Emmys give us stars, just like us! At home, waiting for something good to happen 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rutman’s people are more off-the-shelf, but he keeps them moving and orchestrates their predictable perils and heartbreaks with some panache. Review: In ‘Indian Summers,’ British Expatriates Misbehave 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

“Thammavongsa’s gift for the gently absurd means the stories never feel dour or predictable, even when their outcomes are by some measure bleak.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The least predictable member of the court in their study? Bad omen for healthcare law: Many comments from the justices 2012-03-30T10:00:00Z

Amid the predictable outcry, the city promised it would reconsider the policy. Baby chimpanzee killed by adult at L. A. Zoo 2012-06-27T13:33:00Z

There is an immediate, incredibly predictable, clash in personalities that provides some light tension for the front half of the film. Amazon’s gorgeous hot-air balloon movie “The Aeronauts” has lofty goals but is afraid of heights 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The more evolved Westworld is less like a theme park than a “sandbox” video game, an open environment in which interactions are subtler, less predictable and more determined by the guests’ impulses. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

All of that fun, though, is in the service of the sucker punch tonal shifts that arrive whenever “4 Kids” seems to be going in a predictable direction. The Latest in Graphic Novels 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

A final surprise from Todd’s dead beloved mother is somewhat predictable but poignant, freighting the novel’s last pages with an affirming ache. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

But the playing of the seven bands is anything but predictable. New Universe Music Festival 2010: Abstract Logix Live! ? review 2011-08-18T21:06:01Z

The emergence of a radical counterculture that spoke directly to his gently anarchic sensibility also galvanized Robbins, pushing him further outside the realm of the drab and predictable. ‘Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life,’ by Tom Robbins

A solid, dependable and successful formula, with "dependable" being just a few shades warmer than "predictable." 'Downton Abbey' returns in all its gentle, hopeful glory 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

While much of this — along with MacDonald’s exaggerated metaphors, simplified themes, broadly drawn characters and predictable action — seems too juvenile for adult readers, it’s all appropriate, and appropriately rendered, for a coming-of-age novel. A Different Kind of Heroine, and Not Just Because She Wants to Be a Viking 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

The liberal side was always so predictable and boring and frankly, pointless. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

As Andy grows possessive and aggressive, the movie becomes more tiresome and predictable. ‘Rent-A-Pal’ Review: You Don’t Want to Borrow This VHS Tape 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Scalpels lead to scruples, though the obsessive brutality and bloodshed continue right up to the corny, predictable surprise ending. Repo Men 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z

The soloist in Beethoven's concerto was a young pianist, Sean Chen, who played everything with a crisp staccato attack that soon became predictable. Mark Swed hits the road for a weekend of SoCal orchestra listening 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

If it becomes too predictable, it's not interesting. "Biggest Loser" host, dog Winky battle pet obesity 2012-01-31T18:58:22Z

Or ditch the technique for fear of being labeled polemical, or, worse, predictable? Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fallon delivered a fairly classic “Tonight” monologue with predictable jokes about the Olympics. The TV Watch: Jimmy Fallon Debuts New ‘Tonight’ Show in New York 2014-02-18T06:42:54Z

You could construct a narrative out of this disparate material, but would it be worth the effort to arrive at a predictable lesson about the evils of Manifest Destiny? 2010-01-15T05:16:00Z

On Wednesday afternoon, Hughes, 61, did just that, piloting his gyrocopter from Gettysburg, Pa., to a spot on the Capitol grounds, where the appearance of an unidentified aircraft touched off a brief and predictable furor. A Florida newspaper is along for the ride — and catches flak 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

In other words, errors are not only common but also predictable. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

You can see Brand's painfully predictable monologue on any number of gossip or entertainment sites. MTV movie awards: nothing's shocking, still 2012-06-04T16:47:32Z

One could say that with a less predictable plot and more original characters, "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" would have been a better movie, transcending its genre and breaking new ground. "Godzilla: King of the Monsters": Awesome monsters in epic fights 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

The “Green Book” win is a predictable one, mind you. 2019 Oscars: Cringe-worthy "Green Book" Best Picture win marred an otherwise successful night 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

“Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?” a professor asks in the book’s opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator’s first workshop submission. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

For most of this episode it looks like Jocelyn is going to fully kick Tedros to the curb, a conclusion which would have been predictable but at least more satisfying than this one. ‘The Idol’ Season Finale Recap: What Was the Point? 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hedden, 66, who is retired from the TV news business, said the battles for public space were predictable. Pickleball Is Expanding. Tennis Is Mad. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The implication is that Costello should have gone a more predictable route, given the programmers what they wanted — which is antithetical to the ethos of his career. Elvis Costello's aim is truth in memoir 'Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink' 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Utterly devoid of wit, replacing that required virtue with banal repetitions and entirely predictable humour. Russell Brand to tour mosques and synagogues with new comedy show 2013-06-11T15:52:08Z

But after a promising start the script lets him down, and the film turns into a predictable midlife-crisis yarn. Review: ‘Ordinary World’ Puts Billie Joe Armstrong in the Bland Lane 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The ensuing adventure is lively, amusing and predictably predictable with revelations, reconciliations and some nebulous politics for the grown-ups. ‘Frozen 2’ Review: The Cold Still Never Bothers Them 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

I kept noticing these bands would come out and the record would be cool, but when they played live, people would complain on-line that the band was green, predictable. Unknown Mortal Orchestra an accidental success story 2013-10-10T15:05:45Z

Not being predictable is how he turned to history, he said. Bill O’Reilly Has Top 2 Spots on Hardcover Best-Seller List 2012-12-23T22:52:22Z

The first half of "Measures" has considerable energy thanks to the editing skills of veteran Anne V. Coates, but then the picture is dragged down by too many turgid confrontations and predictable epiphanies. 2010-01-22T03:30:00Z

It all goes to show why caricature is usually a bad device for drama: not because it’s mean, but because it’s predictable, and therefore so are the revelations and plot twists. TV Weekend: GCB 2012-03-02T19:43:00Z

I never want anything I do to seem predictable. Hear Bleachers' Women-Only 'Strange Desire' Covers Album 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The fact that you don’t know, the lack of one predictable mode, is itself a source of narrative drive. REVIEW: Louie Watch: High Anxiety 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

His hands often didn’t move in predictable coordination. Masabumi Kikuchi, Playing Peacefully Through the Dissonance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

That makes for unrewarding, predictable drama, though the writers occasionally try for better. Review: ‘Ballers,’ on HBO, Follows a Financial Guru to the Sports Stars 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

It is neither predictable nor well-behaved: everywhere you look, there is something to delight, confound or arrest you. Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything 2013-02-13T19:30:01Z

Ms. Diaz’s character, a television fitness guru, is reluctant to let her condition interfere with her career, which causes some predictable strains. Movie Review: ?What to Expect When You?re Expecting,? With Cameron Diaz 2012-05-17T12:30:00Z

It is, in fact, a piece of "AU het slash Twilight fic", and as we've seen, in all slash fic, sex and sexual violence are the predictable components of the genre. In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

He calls this idea that “people with different bodies think differently, in predictable ways” the body-specificity hypothesis. What hand you favor shapes your moral choices 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Besides, other aspects of Will’s life allow him to follow the predictable patterns of an imbalanced white knight. New year, new "You": Netflix's stalker drama seeks romantic nirvana in a twisted Season 2 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Despite the book’s subtitle, however, the answer turns out to be more predictable than extraordinary. Hacker for Hire 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

It’s completely predictable, a little underwritten and consistently charming. Critic?s Notebook: A Rogue Film Festival Earns Respect (Sort Of) 2011-06-30T22:19:02Z

Her defending her own administration’s decisions is predictable enough, but someone who’d risen to fame on the back of his comic opposition to those decisions defaulting to deference was confusing. Jon Stewart's Five Worst Moments 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

But one of the leading contenders has a fairly predictable culprit: the Puritans. What was the first banned book in history? 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

Like "Sideways," "About Schmidt," and "Election," "The Descendants" is ultimately about a man in midlife who takes stock and decides his life needs to change; and, like those movies, it never feels formulaic or predictable. At TIFF: "The Descendants," "Albert Nobbs" 2011-09-10T20:16:04Z

The one show that’s a bit less predictable is “Mortal City,” a look at the eccentricities of New York. Can Audible sell podcasts? New short-form Channels shows sound familiar to public radio ears 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Even the predictable sham of a trial, set up to be one of this season’s major flashpoints, veered toward a boring plea deal, albeit one that couldn’t have gone better for Tywin. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z

No round of Primetime Emmys nominations is without predictability, but in some years, the list can be more predictable than others. "Game of Thrones," "Mrs. Maisel" rule the Emmy nominations — at the cost of "Better" Things 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Most of the stories about young women and animal grooms follow a predictable pattern. Beauty and the Bestiality 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

I decided that perhaps the book was aimed at slightly younger readers than me, or I was expecting too much as I found the book to be very predictable. Secrets, Lies and Locker 62 by Lil Chase - review 2013-04-26T11:00:00Z

Proceeding in a tone of unrelieved misery, “Coldwater” is a punishing, predictable drama that’s almost rescued by strong acting and good intentions. ‘Coldwater,’ a Brutal Tale of Juvenile Lockup 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

A chef with stars to defend and a reputation to maintain does what politicians do in close elections: sticks to the script, tries to stay predictable. Restaurant Review: Élan in the Flatiron District 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Deion Sanders was on the road to changing the predictable outcome of that question. Coach Prime is not the HBCU savior: On Deion Sanders and the money-making machine of college sports 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Age means more today than it ever has historically, most likely because death and pregnancy are so much more predictable. Why I lie about my age: Surely it’s OK to be sexual at any age, without being labeled a “puma” or a “cougar” 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

Based on a series of novels by James Runcie, "Grantchester" adds to the crime procedural with a nice, if predictable, tension between the secular and spiritual worlds. 'Grantchester' on PBS splendidly combines crime and contemplation 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

The DVD features an alternate ending that is both darker and more predictable. Straight to DVD: "Tenderness" and "Peacock" 2010-04-17T17:17:00Z

The story itself is predictable – the characters' stories converge – but it is told well. Beats 2012-08-20T13:30:20Z

One could have to do with demystifying, making the process more predictable. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z

If the lyrics are predictable, the book is more idiosyncratic. Review: In ‘Love in Hate Nation,’ the Revolution Will Not Be Scrutinized 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

In its own way, Lewis' "Rock & Roll Time" is as stubbornly predictable as Boone's album, even if it contains more spirit and energy; in place of platitudes and strings are exuberant piano solos. Jerry Lee Lewis and Pat Boone spread their religions 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The song is not a predictable condemnation of a business that raises up and then tears down such celebrities with equal ease but an even-keeled observation that leaves any judgment to the listener. Chris Stapleton, country's 'baddest' voice, defies categories 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Of his contributions, only on “Best of Me” does Ms. Aguilera push her voice beyond comfort; mainly she lets him dictate the arc, and it’s predictable. New Music: Albums by Christina Aguilera, Soundgarden and Brian Eno 2012-11-12T23:19:31Z

Running from 29 August untill 2 September, nothing about these events is predictable or to be expected. Manchester's Cornerhouse goes on a digital spree 2012-08-10T14:00:00Z

Although the inspirational message clearly is laudable, the film's formulaic and predictable treatment of its subject is far less so. Baseball saga "Perfect Game" doesn't round bases 2010-04-20T01:22:00Z

Eventually, more predictable black outfits appeared, layered from a boxy jacket to long skirt. Generation Genius! 2012-09-27T18:27:45Z

Great dancer, great vocalist, but these pop numbers are getting predictable. iHeartRadio Music Awards: 10 most embarrassing moments 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

More honestly, it's lame, tired, predictable, unadventurous, dated and utterly uninteresting. TV review: Holiday Hijack; Sugartown 2011-07-24T22:29:01Z

The latest entry into the field is Rare Steak and Seafood, a second-floor dining room whose old-fashioned looks and hospitality are a cut above the rest, but whose menu follows a predictable formula. Review | The steakhouse may be a cut above, but the real treat is in the tavern below 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Some of the consequences were predictable, and some perhaps were not. Your parenting is the problem: We spend more time and money on parenting than ever — but we are getting worse 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Still, what prevents Ellen Rapoport's funky period piece from tripping over its good intentions is the crisp humor and the writers' refusal to make anyone the easy hero or predictable villain. Saved from extinction, "Minx" is back with an even richer and more complicated second season 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

After weeks of predictable, depressing developments, there's an unexpected uprising, and the whole season is transformed. "Survivor's" stunning comeback 2010-11-21T00:01:00Z

Of the top four — better than most top fours in "Idol" history — Colon was the most predictable and benign. 'The Voice' finds itself, and some stars, too 2011-07-01T01:04:45Z

After the painstaking buildup, the revelations are disappointingly predictable. Movie Review: ‘Wish You Were Here,’ Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith 2013-06-07T00:52:00Z

Throughout the evening, she may have gotten a little carried away making sudden shifts between dramatic outpouring and floating pianissimos, a tic becoming a predictable shtick. L.A. Opera opens season with flat, clumsy 'La Traviata' 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

The song sparked a predictable blaze this week on TV, talk radio and the Internet. A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z

Lawless also treats themes of survival and family loyalty, but feels aimless and predictable, all dressed up with nowhere to go. Lawless ? review 2012-05-19T22:17:53Z

But it also sets up Cassie's sobriety as a means of saucing the action with predictable tension, to the point that it's not a question of whether she'll relapse but when. "The Flight Attendant" returns with double the baggage and showcase for Kaley Cuoco 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Didn't this movie just appear last year, by Woody Allen, but with the predictable NYC-LA connection? Warren Beatty Wants Six Hours of Your Time. Or More. 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

She writes about characters who are stunning in their verisimilitude but never really predictable in their behavior, and Clare and William quickly emerge as two such figures. 2010-01-12T06:57:00Z

For as much controversy as this set provoked, it was also predictable. When Jewish Artists Wrestle With Antisemitism 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s too bad his debut novel is stuffed with predictable situations and cheesy atmospherics because its thoughtful commentary on the homicidal mind and on France’s treatment of its mentally ill is serious and seems well-researched. - The Washington Post

The low point is a fiery exchange between Tobin and the Christian leader of the charge against the book that descends into more predictable position-taking. Theater Review: At the Vineyard, Reading Can Be Hazardous 2010-05-20T04:12:00Z

And a lot of it is going to be driven by Tarantino, who is nothing if not predictable. New York Post accuses Quentin Tarantino of 'trolling cops' to sell tickets 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

“And I think hipsterdom is marked by extended adolescence.” Unbaby.me has provoked some predictable backlash among parents. Noted: Unbaby.me Keeps Baby Pictures Off Facebook 2012-08-08T21:23:44Z

Harvey Weinstein is well practiced at grand arrivals, having made them annually at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, where his movie company dominated Oscar night with almost predictable regularity. Harvey Weinstein's arrest: the moment the #MeToo flood burst the dam 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

She conducts and sings music from Berg’s “Lulu” and Gershwin’s “Girl Crazy” with predictable aplomb, but for me it is the sensuous and utterly uninhibited rendition of Berio’s solo “Sequenza III” that seals the deal. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

What they hadn't bargained for was sharing the predictable election with the entirely unexpected: a volcano, unprecedented travel disruption, and the three main political parties neck and neck. PM 2010-04-21T14:25:00Z

As with so much about President Trump, his Phoenix rally on Tuesday night was two contradictory things: both shocking and completely predictable. Perspective | Trump’s vicious attack on the media shows one thing clearly: He’s running scared 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

What was less predictable was where such thinking led some designers: not to the depths of despair, but somewhere else entirely. What Do You Wear to the End of Days? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

At first electrifying, Mike’s stage performances become increasingly predictable and then almost routine, as we begin to see beyond the seductive performance to the repetitive, almost mechanical movements underneath. Magic Mike: The Sexy, Sad Lies We Tell Ourselves 2012-06-28T20:15:18Z

The mystery that Beckett ultimately unravels is as predictable as it is dull. 'Innocence' is as predictable as it is dull 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

At the end, the dancers frame the older man on each side as he walks slowly upstage, leaving his partner, seated alone and grieving, at the front — a predictable and rather sentimental ending. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“Bring It On” trots merrily through several predictable subplots about bonding across the social and racial divide. Theater Review: ‘Bring It On: The Musical’ at St. James Theater 2012-08-02T02:00:15Z

“Humans, on the other hand,” he says, “are a lot less predictable.” | On a Lark 2014-04-07T15:38:16Z

They tend to be easy films to mock: formulaic, predictable, cheaply made and, perhaps worst, earnest in a way that the Syfy movies gleefully avoid. Critic’s Notebook: Oh, Yes, Saturday TV Is Ladies Night 2013-08-22T20:35:42Z

For once, I found the results show to be completely predictable. 'American Idol' results night recap: Say goodbye to Andrew, Katie 2010-04-15T15:46:00Z

Inaugurations are typically predictable, occasionally uplifting, sometimes boring — but Americans always could take for granted the peaceful transition from president to president. An inauguration like no other 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

Caste is a contentious issue in India, but not a predictable one. How Bollywood is starting to deal with India's caste system 2010-12-16T22:30:02Z

There had been so much speculation about Presley's mental and physical health that his death was unpleasantly predictable. The king is dead: a classic Elvis Presley tribute from the vaults 2012-08-15T09:57:29Z

Stephen finds out that Barbara Berrill, a girl from a neighbouring house, has in her turn been spying on him, and is offered by her the predictable explanation of adult behaviour. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z

The endless windup raised the bar and demanded something less predictable. Filmmaker J. J. Abrams Is a Crowd Teaser 2011-05-29T01:23:02Z

However predictable it may be, one of the more popular patterns this spring is floral. | The Sleeker Side of Floral Prints 2014-03-10T21:23:42Z

There are some interestingly nasty moments and some chills, but it's predictable and derivative. The Roommate ? review 2011-04-07T22:29:00Z

Others, though, have been largely predictable - crossing themselves, looking to the skies, high-fiving or blowing kisses to the camera. Dancing Colombia set bar for wild World Cup celebrations 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

For those who feel a pumpkin pie is too predictable, why don't you try Giada De Laurentiis' new recipe for pumpkin cupcakes with chocolate cream cheese frosting? Make Giada De Laurentiis’ pumpkin cupcakes with chocolate frosting, a sweet treat for fall 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

“I get a lot of hate mail, but it’s predictable,” Mr. Auth told The Post in 1977, describing the perils of his profession. Tony Auth, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who satirized political figures, dies at 72

“Parasite” bats back those criticisms, and additionally restores an anything-can-happen element to an event that had become increasingly predictable. In a Post-‘Parasite’ World, What Happens Next? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

As for the plot of “Blood on Snow,” it is as predictable as it is hackneyed. Review: Jo Nesbo, in ‘Blood on Snow,’ Tries a New Kind of Hero 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Thematically, structurally, the symmetries are neat, and predictable. In a Better World ? review 2011-08-18T20:40:01Z

Needed: Patient, calm, encouraging parents able to provide a predictable routine. Saturday’s Child 2014-04-04T22:40:57Z

The spectrum of reaction strikes Harris, 29, as predictable, given his desire to rattle an audience, a portion of whom go to the theater for that very sensation. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Understand, too, that others will not necessarily behave in predictable ways when you disclose your abuse experience. Perspective | Ask Amy: Discovery of long-lost child challenges marriage 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

A little over a year ago we moved to LA for all the clichéd reasons: a better quality of life, predictable weather, less exposure to subway urine. My life with J.J. Abrams: The moral code of the celebrity Doppelgänger 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

That’s why it’s both surprising—and, given the surprising nature of this entire project, maybe predictable—that Dylan closes the album with “That Lucky Old Sun.” Bob Dylan’s Sinatra Album 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The Hollywood Reporter found it predictable but engaging. Douglas, Keaton get second chance at love in 'And So It Goes' 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Its getting more and more difficult for films that are a little unusual, or not predictable, or don't satisfy people's expectations of something. Cannes 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive a seven year trek says Jim Jarmusch 2013-05-25T18:16:07Z

This is a fickle business, and it does not strive to be fair or predictable.” After 21 years, this D.C. actress is enjoying a ‘season of firsts’ 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The stories that are told about Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos now have taken a predictable pattern. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

A didgeridoo boomed magnificently, for instance, and then a magnificent whale came into predictable view. 'The Reef' concert had a chance to catch a new wave of fans by pairing surf sounds and scenes 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The only character Wolfe seems to admire is a dapper Nobel laureate who argues, in a neuropsychology lecture, that human social life is as predictable as that of ants. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the memoir — delivered in dry, often truculent prose — turns out to be mostly a predictable mix of spin, stonewalling, score settling and highly selective reminiscences. Books of The Times: Dick Cheney Tells His Side in Memoir ?In My Time? - Review 2011-08-25T21:28:58Z

In less quantifiable terms, though, “Montero” served as a reminder that a new, younger and entirely less predictable type of star is suddenly nipping at Drake’s — and his entire cohort’s — heels. Gen Z Pop Stars Made Their Mark in 2021. Beware, Millennial Forebears. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Wein became an early example of a change that would wake up the somewhat predictable world of comics, one that made the stories deeper and more ambitious. Len Wein, Influential Comic Book Writer, Dies at 69 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Boyhood to a handful of mystery performances, the 87th Academy Awards promise to be eventful—if a little predictable. Everything You Need to Know About the 2015 Oscars 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

But O’Brien deserves our appreciation for inserting a note of chaos into a long night of predictable self-congratulation. The best and worst noments of the 2021 Emmys 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The universal human laws — need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of fear/hunger/pain — are constant, predictable. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z

It’s a balance, because I don’t want the brand to be predictable – but it still has to be believably “me”. Victoria Beckham: ‘I guess it was a sign of insecurity, wearing very tight clothes’ 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

But she also exists within a news organization that was operating in a predictable manner when it portrayed the Duggars as victims of a “liberal backlash.” Duggars' Fox News Interview Proves Fans—And Detractors—Right 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

But then it was like this is so predictable. Q&A with Jade Sharma, author of the edgy debut 'Problems' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Oh, Internet, you are nothing if not predictable. Bill Maher’s latest gross jab at women 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

As predictable and welcome as Frank Sinatra’s guest spots on Dean Martin’s Christmas shows is Neil Patrick Harris’ recurring presence in the H&K films. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: This Santa's Got a Brand New Stash 2011-11-03T21:21:13Z

It also had less predictable effects on popular culture. Why TV writers are striking and what it means for your favorite shows 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z

Visually inspired but thematically derivative, the apocalyptic sci-fi drama "Automata" pits humans against robots with predictable results. 'Automata' appears to be on automatic pilot 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The absence of "The Good Wife" from the drama category might raise an eyebrow, but the six series that made the cut were entirely predictable. ArtsBeat: In Emmy Nominations, Usual Suspects, a Raised Eyebrow and More Oversights 2012-07-19T14:27:56Z

But Ms. Haigh’s fine, enveloping stories are not ordinary or predictable at all. Books of The Times: ‘News From Heaven’ by Jennifer Haigh 2013-01-27T21:04:33Z

But sometimes the best strategy a long-running show can adopt to avoid sliding into a predictable graveyard rut is to infuse its arc story with a fresh narrative platelets procured from unfamiliar veins. "What We Do in the Shadows" proves the first law of thermodynamics with its refreshing cliffhanger 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

And so intermission finds us deep within a completely predictable but not unpleasant melodrama. Theater Review: ?Tokio Confidential,? a Musical, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-02-15T23:19:40Z

She makes a wide array of wines, from the predictable pinot noir to unusual blends and other odd-but-delicious cuvées, buying grapes from sources throughout Oregon. For Farmers of Wine Grapes, the Pandemic Sows Doubts 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

In driving, we find stop signs in many places, but it would be silly to call a stop sign a cliche: Its predictable shape and color make it immediately recognizable. Clichés may grate like nails on a chalkboard, but one person’s cliché is another’s sliced bread 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

The predictable result of this conflict is an obsession with controlling or prohib­iting sexual behavior, coupled with an almost irresistible drive to violate those prohibitions. God is not a prude: This is why religion remains so sex-obsessed, why we pretend Jesus was born of a virgin 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

What follows is as predictable as it is heavy-handed. ArtsBeat Blog: Shirin Neshat's Performa Contribution 2011-11-14T21:00:25Z

The pressure of working together produced the predictable interpersonal strains. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Watch: Engineered Drama Trumps Actual Singing 2012-02-10T16:24:35Z

It’s a classy, articulate and predictable group of concerned citizens. A Place at the Table: A Serving of Hard-to-Swallow Truths 2013-03-01T12:55:20Z

Instead of a dark, intriguing puzzle, we get familiar elements — the creepy guy with the wall of photos, the endangered witness unable to reach Linden — popping up in predictable fashion. Review: Final Season of ‘The Killing’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

As much as we criticize certain big-name stars for clinging to the predictable comforts and rewards of franchise cinema, it’s hard to argue with its strategic benefits. Lindsay Lohan's Mean Girls sequel: when stars take franchises into their own hands 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The result is a lurid and predictable novel — not as disappointing as Ms. Rowling’s first post-Harry Potter venture, “The Casual Vacancy,” but only because of Robin and Strike. Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

It is static, predictable and unexciting, adjectives that would kill most programs but work in "PHC's" favor. The news from Puget Sound? Keillor and 'Companion' broadcast live from Seattle 2010-03-25T23:41:00Z

Its selections are eclectic, unapologetically and rightly elitist, and occasionally predictable. This New York Film Festival Is Definitely Not Boring 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Then Harris took the reins once again and the predictable wins resumed. Academy Awards telecast is all too predictable 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

What I soon realized was that they’re often broken in predictable ways. Road worrier: A reluctant driver takes the wheel in famously chaotic Phuket 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It is an album of spaciousness and claustrophobia, possibility and inhibition; at its best it feels fidgety and unstable, at its worst downcast and a bit predictable. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z

A beginning attraction may be erotic happenstance; its fulfillment in marriage can be predictable hell, and for Roth not once but twice. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

But many of Ms. Ouizguen’s choices felt predictable and overly theatrical, or perhaps lacking in a clarity of intent over both small choreographic points and larger questions of exoticism and cultural paradigms. Dance Review: A Moroccan Tradition in Full Cry 2010-09-23T22:05:00Z

And while it could be awful, this series has charm woven into predictable story lines. Television Review: NBC’s ‘Camp’ Is as Much About the Grown-Ups as the Kids 2013-07-09T21:26:32Z

This is an engaging series about a likable bunch of co-workers that isn’t too sweet or predictable. Review: In ‘Battle Creek,’ the F.B.I. Sets Up Shop With the Police 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

It’s predictable that the man Maria is infatuated with is no Mr. Right. When Witches Run in the Family 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Infatuated with each other in ways that are not entirely predictable, they begin to affect the lives of others, including her invalid father, her frustrated boyfriend and the heroine's chatty fellow manicurists. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

And I was feeling sedated by this ideal of luxury: technically flawless, incredibly expensive and, in the end, somewhat predictable. California’s Luxury Dining Circuit: Delicious and Dull 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

The crazy politeness of “please”? The presumption of “Sartre”? The predictable destination? Review: In ‘Dear Mr. You,’ Mary-Louise Parker Writes to Men, With Lust and Rue 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

But if the list is predictable, the books are not. Women's prize shortlist: Hilary Mantel issue looms large for judges 2013-04-16T16:17:23Z

The Oscars are poised to be especially bland this year, with their lack of diversity, predictable narratives and old-fashioned reverence for movies about white male rage. Jennifer Lopez at the Super Bowl? It’s the Role She Was Born to Play 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

She does fine with it and with the rest of the film, but the story is all pretty predictable. Review: In ‘The Model,’ She’s Camera Ready but Woefully Naïve 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

“The allure of political relevance, facilitated by social and other media,” he argued, has encouraged “a predictable sameness” that misses the messiness and complexity of the past. As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

This story provoked an immediate and predictable media sensation that, alas, quickly petered away, because, to be honest, the story seemed a bit of a glib, cheap shot. Perspective | President Trump: The new Mae West? Let us explain. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The bickering and bonding that ensue are predictable, but for the most part, “7 Days” resists easy rom-com wins. ‘7 Days’ Review: Mothers’ Matchmaking Goes Awry 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The novel turns into a more or less traditional police procedural, that is, and the resolution is violent but predictable. Books of The Times: ‘Gun Machine,’ by Warren Ellis 2013-01-02T21:35:39Z

He gets powerful performances from Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as estranged brothers who wind up fighting in the same Atlantic City single-elimination tournament, with predictable results. "Warrior": Exciting fight flick with a twisted ideology 2011-09-07T16:08:00Z

Big Mike sang it well, it had the gospel feel that was present in Michael Jackson’s version, but it was just so predictable and stilted. "American Idol" recap: Down to the final four 2010-05-12T12:13:00Z

But many of the answers were crisp and polished, if predictable. The tedious Republican debate cycle: Rand Paul speaks! Trump gets booed! GOP 2016 already feels like a reality show that’s past its prime 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Some highlights were predictable: in reverse chronological order, “15 Step,” “Myxomatosis,” “Subterranean Homesick Alien.” Music Review: Radiohead at the Roseland Ballroom ? Music Review 2011-09-29T09:36:33Z

"The Upper East Side, which I have always noticed to be more about conservative, perhaps predictable fashion, is now receptive to something younger and maybe edgier," Ms. Younes said. On the Runway Blog: Mr. Madison Moves On 2012-09-14T18:39:37Z

“Around 100,000 Jews were left, a fifth of the 1933 figure — public regret over this fact was moderate, which seemed to me perfectly logical but not entirely predictable.” ‘Look Who’s Back’: Germans Reflect on the Success of a Satire About Hitler 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Honestly, I have no idea how he managed it, and all without his tastes becoming calcified or predictable. RIP Roger Ebert: Movie criticism’s Great Communicator 2013-04-05T01:10:00Z

With “Nevermind” taking off, the band brought its rough edges to television — with predictable bumps. Nirvana Concerts Could Be Beautiful Wrecks 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

That entertainment, really, is the heart of Tiger King’s maddening yet predictable appeal. What happened after Netflix quarantine smash Tiger King ended? 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

It's a Wonderful Life A predictable festive favourite, but here it comes in the best possible context: a full Frank Capra retrospective at London's BFI Southbank. The best films for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

When he’d applied, Shiokava assumed that he’d become a painter — and devoted himself to studying drawing, painting and silkscreening, a medium in which he produced a rather predictable array of abstractions and landscapes. The Hammer biennial's breakout star? A 78-year-old retired gardener from Compton who once worked for Marlon Brando 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

If you hooked a seismograph to Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, the readout for most of the last two decades would be boringly predictable. Restaurant Review: Blue Smoke and North End Grill 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a predictable existence, until a shiny new employee arrives, mesmerizing the office. Review | ‘The Very Nice Box’ is a very funny office satire 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z

Weekly binges soon turned to daily abuse, with predictable results: his grades plummeted; his attendance vanished. The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction 2014-03-23T18:30:00Z

Yeah, I feel like I’m following a slightly predictable path. Eleanor Friedberger on leaving Brooklyn, approaching 40 and why she’d be happy to sell out: “I don’t think that attitude really exists anymore” 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

For Italian-born Iuzzolino, British drama has an “incredibly narrow palette” – complacent, predictable and slow – with the actors far too “National Theatre” for his liking. 'It's better than The Sopranos': the foreign TV you'll be bingeing on this summer 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

When Barr trots out a stale gag about gender, riffing on the question “What is a woman?” she gets a predictable roar. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z

The white soul as an exposed nerve ending is predictable, because as the first line of Dyson’s sermon states, “There is no such thing as white people.” “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Drifting back to the predictable cycles of tadpoles and the ballet of fireflies, Kya burrowed deeper into the wordless wilderness. Nature seemed the only stone that would not slip midstream.” From a Marsh to a Mountain, Crime Fiction Heads Outdoors 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Secondly, we were told the beginning from the start of the book, so the whole storyline was predictable. The Last Minute by Eleanor Updale - review 2013-02-11T12:00:00Z

But the disappearance of many whales from this historically predictable location is causing concern. Experts meet in Hawaii to understand decline of humpback whales 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

And her journey from musical aspirant to disappointed wife to independent woman is rousing even when handled with predictable sentimentality. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

We will complain, however, about the voice-over narration at the beginning, accompanied by self-pitying acoustic guitar, and also about a story that slides too easily from the predictable to the preposterous. | 'The Art of Getting By': Allergic to Homework and Possibly Smitten 2011-06-16T23:10:19Z

They aren’t though; they are a writer’s constructs, at first provocative, finally predictable. 360: A Long Way Around to Find Love 2012-08-03T13:00:56Z

The hard knocks of the life of the juvenile offender are given a going over in this fairly predictable update of the British crime genre. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z

Big Miracle has the cheesy set up of a predictable rescue story, though an inter-species one. Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale 2012-02-02T17:37:40Z

While “Reservation Road” was more balanced between the two families, Mr. Schwartz focuses this time on the Arnos, whose fates are less predictable. Books of The Times: Reconstructive Surgery for a Shattered Family 2011-07-28T21:00:13Z

“If all you rely on is one or two books about the tarot,” she told me, the reading that results will be flat and predictable. Making the Tarot Literary Again 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

The tell-all promise of the film’s title dwindles away into predictable perspectives from members of his family. ‘The Real Charlie Chaplin’ Review: Not Enough Funny Business 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

When Breath of the Wild was released in 2017, it rescued The Legend of Zelda, a video game franchise growing stale because of a predictable gameplay loop of dungeons and fetch quests. To Meet Sky-High Expectations, Tears of the Kingdom Goes Vertical 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

We had to think about this for a while, we could be really predictable and just hash in something from our end of year list but what would be the point? Blog jam: Beard Rock 2013-03-13T10:00:00Z

“American Idol” viewers proved this week that they are anything but predictable, and that the best singers do not always win the popularity contest. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Judges Save Jessica Sanchez From Elimination 2012-04-13T04:23:36Z

The hotel uniforms' style and cut are faithful to the 1930s period, but I was searching for a color palette that was not too predictable for hotel staff uniforms. Milena Canonero's 'Grand Budapest' costumes match Wes Anderson's vision 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

“Mr. Parker” is not the kind of play that springs surprises on the audience, so its denouement is entirely predictable. ‘Mr. Parker’ Review: Starting Over 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

As it is, the play’s conventional structure and predictable confrontations look balder and feel draggier than need be. Theater Review: David Rabe?s ?Early History of Fire,? at the Acorn Theater 2012-05-01T02:00:00Z

Episodic storytelling, as in “Law & Order” or “The Simpsons,” utilizes smaller, loosely connected narratives to allow for the maintenance of a comforting, predictable stasis over all. The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

When the host screamed at him, he replied, “I don’t want things to be predictable.” Books of The Times: Richard Brautigan Biography, ‘Jubilee Hitchhiker’ 2012-05-22T17:36:11Z

But the most predictable thing about this endeavor is how predictable it is. Ask me why: Great writers on the Beatles songs they love most 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Apart from anything else, fans of both would probably be propelled into a tediously predictable state of ire. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Formula is predictable, and predictable is cheap and easy to manage. Motherlode Blog: Why the Backlash on Bloomberg's Breastfeeding Initiative? 2012-08-02T21:06:07Z

The meat dress attracted attention at a time when Gaga's very unpredictability had begun to seem predictable, when her constant innovation had threatened to drag. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z

Some of the names were predictable, such as Mitt Romney, a frequent critic of Trump. Republicans have ‘concerns’ about Trump — but won’t let reporters quote them by name about it 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

The muted language of "caring" for each other is painful, the argument's resolution predictable: "After thinking quite a lot about this incomprehensible fit of hysteria he decided the best procedure was to ignore it." Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z

“I’m not talking about artistic quality or content of the program, but the ritual itself. It’s quite predictable — and, visually, mostly dead boring, to be totally honest.” A Manifesto for a 21st-Century Concert. (Drinks Allowed.) 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Most of the 16 lots went for solid if predictable prices at, or just above, their estimates, for a total of $177.8 million. The S.I. Newhouse Auction: 16 Paintings, $177.8 Million 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

This all feels tired and predictable, as if Bausch had run out of new ideas and instead offered up her trusty style. Dance Review: Swimming Through Bausch?s World 2010-09-30T21:15:00Z

Looking at him thusly makes his late registration to the #MAGA tribe a predictable element of his strange progression. Democracy in the 2010s, aka the decline of Kanye West-ern civilization 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

It was so predictable that the night's biggest upset was "Big Hero 6" beating out "How to Train Your Dragon 2." Academy Awards telecast is all too predictable 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

And when parents develop a predictable meal and snack structure for kids to follow, candy-laden holidays are easier to navigate. Perspective | Forget switching Halloween treats for a toy. This dietitian says: Let them eat candy. 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

That seemed to be an utterly conventional third act and also predictable for the audience. Director Noyce back from cold with "Salt" thriller 2010-07-21T07:04:00Z

Then again, could any career trajectory be considered predictable when it is kicked off by none other than Rae Dawn Chong? Chris Pratt Is a Superhero in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

In that regard, at least, it is grotesquely predictable. ‘Come Back to Me,’ a Gory Horror Tale 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The story is fairly predictable, especially with a bottle of whiskey sitting on top of the fridge like a malevolent lighthouse luring Doc to the shoals. Review: Pathos Times Two: A Double Dose of Inge, in Close Quarters 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

And, of course, there are many examples of heavy-handed surprises that seem all too predictable. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

Almost everything in this novel is predictable, except for the strange dialogue attributed to British characters. The New Republic by Lionel Shriver - review 2012-06-08T21:55:11Z

The influential part of its audience wants it dead, repetitive, predictable, pretty, safely insulated in some foreign language. How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z

I don’t want it to become predictable; it is challenging in spontaneity. The Mighty Chris Hemsworth on Snow White, Joss Whedon and Thor 2 2012-05-31T14:15:20Z

While it has been profitable for the past several quarters, the recession took its predictable toll. Citizen Kushner 2011-06-24T21:35:16Z

“In such settings, being an Arsenal supporter is even more predictable than having an M.F.A. or a pair of horn-rimmed glasses.” Soccer, Particularly England’s Premier League, Growing in Popularity in New York Creative Circles 2014-04-16T22:52:42Z

“There’s a buzz that can happen in the Bay Area that way, but it’s not predictable,” she said. Your boss lost an election, you lost a job — but Tom Manatos is here to save the day.

“I just was trying not to be predictable and make reference right off the bat to my heritage,” she told The Times. Lisa Marie Presley on Elvis, Michael Jackson and Her Music 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

That those same societies are reluctant to highlight this history of barbarism also is predictable. Thanksgiving? Instead, let’s atone for the genocide that was committed 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

That means you should always make a right turn from the right lane, check behind you for traffic before changing lanes, observe traffic lights and be predictable. E-bike etiquette: Respect the rules of the road (and trail) with these tips 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

In the movie’s predictable world, there’s little doubt that romance will spark between Cole and a nurse or that he’ll win back his roommate’s lost poker winnings. Movie Review: ‘Happy New Year,’ Directed by K. Lorrel Manning 2012-12-07T02:21:36Z

The list is fairly predictable: the Parthenon, the beach, Phaistos and Knossos, the hikes. Introducing my kids to their grandparents’ Greece 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

The movie is “perky though predictable,” Maya Phillips wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches’ and Awards Shows 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

But this is all too lightweight and predictable for the moniker “festival.” Krzysztof Urbanski Leads the Philharmonic in Dvorak 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the way that “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” deploys goombah-ness as its regional signifier, “The Real Housewives of Miami” showcases the city’s Latin culture through predictable stereotyping. Television Review: Miami, Another Battlefront in the War Against Wrinkles 2011-02-21T23:00:11Z

On screen she is less abrasive and less brassily sexual than in print, but unlike a lot of movie characters, whether they live in comedy or melodrama, she is not simple or predictable or conventional. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z

Even if cattlemen succeed in Washington, their industry remains at the mercy of consumers, a less predictable audience than Congress. How meat producers are trying to avoid becoming like dairy farmers competing with nut ‘milks’ 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

In other words — as it also does in confronting racism against African-Americans, including by Asians — the book tackles perhaps predictable conflicts, but then deepens with every turn. Superman Returns, to Beat Up the Klan 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

It begins as something conventional and a few episodes in, transforms from a predictable sedan into a Decepticon. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

It is as if the series wants to battle the predictable pleasures of the algorithm like John Henry racing the steam drill. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

And, once inside, first impressions were just as predictable. Taxi for Pope Benedict... touring the Vatican's car collection 2013-02-14T10:36:00Z

Le Carré, however, is never predictable, and always exploring new frontiers. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z

The opening third of Rough Night is the best part of the movie and also the most predictable: The women get to Miami and commence partying, hard, immediately. Review: Rough Night Exposes the Threadbare Downside of the Women-Cutting-Loose Genre 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

So to say that “Everybody Loves Somebody” is predictable is no real criticism, as being able to foresee the ending — almost from the beginning — is exactly what most viewers expect. Review: ‘Everybody Loves Somebody,’ a Rom-Com With Bite 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

“A piece of music is boring if it’s completely predictable, and boring if it’s completely unpredictable,” he said. Possessed: There?s No Quiet Without Noise 2011-07-08T19:39:07Z

Byrd sounded as polished as ever, but a shade predictable alongside more individualistic players such as Adams, or Wayne Shorter and Hancock, with both of whom he played on the 1961 album Free Form. Donald Byrd obituary 2013-02-12T10:20:40Z

Other commenters began opening up about their personal battles in the bedroom, like one man who said he “struggled with being predictable.” Sex blogger gives advice to men whose wives won't have sex with them 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

I don't think you want live performance to be predictable. One to watch: My Tiger My Timing 2012-06-23T23:05:28Z

He was not impressed — by the singing or the show’s “predictable sameness.” Essential Arts & Culture: The new MacArthur winners, Gehry's Bilbao effect, Springsteen on Broadway 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Young David enters an orphanage, finds followers and imparts wisdom before falling terminally ill — a Christ figure, sure, but not one with easy or predictable parallels. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

While more conservative artists and their followers are happy to paddle in the predictable shallows of generic art making, braver souls are willing to dissolve the limits of their chosen form. Top draw: artists pushing the boundaries of drawing 2013-07-02T00:29:00Z

Forced or not, this was her widely trailed radio debut in a largely predictable programme. Radio review: Porn Again 2011-03-04T08:00:02Z

The MCU is the fast food of big-budget action: predictable, convenient, bland, but good enough if you like that sort of thing. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

And they weren't saying anything interesting, either; a boringly predictable number of the celebrities they dragged in to talk to hadn't seen any of the shows being honoured. Olivier theatre awards: the BBC should be red-faced over its red-button coverage 2011-03-14T17:53:50Z

Musicians at major ensembles enjoyed job stability, healthy incomes and predictable functions: rehearse and play concerts, and maybe mingle with patrons or play a few fund-raising chamber concerts. New York Philharmonic Executive to Step Down 2010-09-27T16:56:00Z

A debate about nominating Mother Nature divided the panel among predictable party lines. Who Should Be TIME’s 2012 Person of the Year? Our Panel Sounds Off 2012-11-13T21:36:16Z

Or so it goes at first: Owen’s attitude, and his relationship to his father, change in ways that are predictable. Review | ‘Swimming With Whales’ explores deep feelings at 1st Stage 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

By comparison, words such as chocolate or dog tend to provoke a predictable sensual response: I will taste chocolate or smell a dog’s coat. Experience: I taste people’s names 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

I’m afraid I’m pretty predictable in that department. Andre Dubus III: By the Book 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

That an accessible third course of action — an abortion — goes essentially ignored by both Natalie and the screenwriter, April Prosser, is a mind-boggling factor in this otherwise predictable movie. ‘Look Both Ways’ Review: To Be and Not to Be 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

“We could have been a bit more aggressive. The market seems solid and predictable.” London Art Auctions May Herald a Market on the Upswing 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Although the joyous ending was predictable, the charm of its players, the warmth of the relationships and Yates's fine sense of atmosphere made it his most fully achieved work. Peter Yates obituary 2011-01-10T18:39:17Z

Everything that follows is as predictable, dreary and proverbial as the weather in Manchester. Song for Marion – review 2013-02-24T00:05:36Z

The narrative this time around is even more stretched, derivative and repetitive than Season 3’s, but almost ingeniously so: It is both utterly predictable and surprisingly addictive. The TV Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’ Returns for a Fourth Season 2014-01-02T21:12:16Z

It’s very diatonic; it’s thrillingly orchestrated; it’s rhythmically predictable; it’s affirmative; it’s transparently foursquare. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Their domestic drama occupies a lot of screen time and plays out in ways both predictable and unlikely. Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

This nighttime connection leads to a predictable crisis, with Whitman ashamed for having crossed a boundary and the defensive Wormley denouncing Whitman as a pervert. Review: The Opera ‘Crossing’ Shows Why Whitman Matters Today 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

But is Liz really projecting her loneliness on to others, and imagining the way they see her – or does society read people who are alone in too predictable a manner? The agony of weekend loneliness: ‘I won't speak to another human until Monday’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Clearly the weather does influence holiday-making decisions in this country — but we must remember that unpredictable summers are now predictable. Rained off: weather sends more Britons abroad this summer 2012-07-10T15:41:38Z

I think it is as predictable as the return of the King, I mean Jon Snow. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 5: Hold the Door 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement The life change in “Grandfathered” is more ordinary and its execution more predictable. Review: ‘Grandfathered’ and ‘The Grinder,’ Two New Fox Sitcoms 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

For starters, the safari-themed jackets and khaki jumpsuits reflected not a style so much as the freedom to use those motifs in a less predictable way. Fashion Review: Milan Fashion Review: Prada, Versace, Etro, MaxMara 2012-09-21T23:37:54Z

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its decision to add an award for best popular film on Wednesday, the predictable howls went up throughout the Film Twitterverse. Perspective | ‘Best popular film’ category sets up a cynical tug-of-war between art and commerce 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The Quarry is narrated by Kit, a typically precocious and alienated Banksian teenager, who finds people stupidly predictable and yet infuriatingly random. Iain Banks: the final interview 2013-06-15T07:07:55Z

Leovy underscores the urgency to respond but not in a predictable manner. 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Dressed in black slacks and a glittery black shirt, Diamond followed a predictable set list, but the pacing was impeccable. Neil Diamond sings like a man half his age at KeyArena 2012-07-24T17:49:04Z

It's a kind of polyglot internationalism presented under the New American umbrella, with the techniques and raw materials of non-Western cuisines used to wake up the staid, predictable flavors of familiar Americana. The case for queso: US-based cheesemakers prepare for a Mexican cheese boom 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

For a moment, it seemed he was saying: The success of a production this ambitious is far from predictable. 'David Bowie Is': How do you fit a rocker into an art museum? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Introduced in 1866 and completed in 1870, this romantic frolic is built on a plot twist predictable from miles away, a triumph for true love over cynical calculation. Opera Review: ?Bartered Bride? a Fine Start to Marriage of Met and Juilliard 2011-02-16T13:36:30Z

Nor did she fret about Pakistan's predictable rage at not being informed about the raid ahead of time. Hillary Clinton's 'Hard Choices' makes for compelling reading 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

This road between weary resistance and defiant pride is well trodden, of course, and “Resistance and Power,” which doesn’t offer any especially innovative takes on this journey, suffers from a predictable thematic narrowness. Dance Review: Sisters Standing Up to the Man 2011-04-29T21:21:24Z

They collectively lead the gang through the shifting tectonics of family and romantic life, inevitably finding predictable lessons along the way. Review: Family tectonics shift in fourth 'Ice Age' 2012-07-12T13:43:08Z

There are few activities more predictable and pathetic than old people lamenting the loss of virtue, the weakness or the incompetence of young people. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

My father, a retired college professor, is responsible for one-liners, which are about one-third hilarious, one-third predictable and one-third groaner. Frugal Traveler: Croatia: Take Your Parents to Work Week 2011-06-21T19:01:39Z

By the time it reaches its predictable end, I still wanted to grab a beer with Capaldi and celebrate his healing, and I don’t even drink beer. ‘Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now’ Review: Breakout Crooner in Meta Form 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Fresh and funny today as he was more than a century ago, Mark Twain wittily distrusted everything bogus, inflated, predictable or empty. ‘Mark Twain’s America’ and ‘Huck Finn’s America’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

It's predictable, and a little too forward with the charm, but likable and promising. Kids in control of environment in Amazon Studios' new pilots 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

The food is predictable happy-hour fare, but cheap and decent: nachos, potato skins, chicken wings and chicken tenders, each for about $5. Happy hour at the Hard Rock: 'When it rains, we pour' 2012-11-14T19:35:05Z

They are far more persuasive, perhaps because their associations are less predictable, than Grossman's several treatments of howling human heads. Lauren Grossman at Platform Gallery: leviathans and hellmouths 2012-04-05T19:30:11Z

After “Homeland,” he took on less predictable roles. Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

But one of the worst things about it was that it was entirely predictable. Glass half empty: the hangover from hell that made me tackle my drinking 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Who says local TV news is boring and predictable? Alaska reporter quits on air after reporting on her own marijuana club 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Here’s hoping Mr. Nguyen’s “Monster” offers more robust and less predictable fare. | 'We Are': Illuminating Voices of Vietnamese Women 2011-03-21T21:34:22Z

It was a lovely example of the adaptability and creativity of the industry — a night that guaranteed social-distancing measures and provided a far more predictable stream of revenue than either business might achieve otherwise. The Pandemic Could End the Age of Midpriced Dining 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The book approached the issue with predictable stodgy disapproval but stopped short of absolute condemnation, which was good. The Playboy centerfold cannot hold 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Novels and memoirs that begin with a pregnancy tend to follow a predictable trajectory: The baby is born. This Is Parenthood — and Not Just the Charming, Photogenic Parts 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

After billions of dollars of spending, the election was remarkably predictable, and predicted. Election Watch: Karl Rove Vs. the Arithmetic 2012-11-07T14:25:13Z

With scant box office in inverse proportion to their perceived prestige, these films all paid a predictable commercial price for their avoidance of conventional genre tactics. The horror? How Suspiria leads the way for arthouse scares 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

“Dawn” is more than a bunch of occasionally thrilling action sequences, emotional gut punches and throwaway jokes arranged in predictable sequence. The Times Critics' Guide to 'Planet of the Apes' 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

According to psychologists, the intransigence on the part of the lead detective and others in the Crowe case was, as it was in the Marty Tankleff case both predictable and understandable. Why can’t law enforcement admit their mistakes? 2012-10-21T14:00:00Z

If “The Characters” and “Night Class” are refreshing variations on the sketch-comedy genre, Fox’s “Party Over Here” felt predictable in its debut episode on Saturday night. Sketch Comedy’s New Faces on TV 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

But the consensus that Beyoncé somehow sullied sacred ground is as predictable as it is puzzling. Alan Freed or Beyonce? False debate rages around Rock Hall 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Here’s one: the venture capital pouring into astrology apps will create a fortune telling system that works, because humans are predictable. I was an astrologer – here's how it really works, and why I had to stop 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

This week the crime mystery stuff is a predictable and a bit of a dud. TV highlights 29/06/2012 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z

Especially in periodic episodes of manic comedy with predictable punch-line twists, its ideas are conventional and humdrum. Review: In ‘ROBOT,’ Machines Perform With Humans at BAM 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

Any jokes in Her Majesty's vicinity are the mildest and most predictable of teases: she puts on three-bar electric fires in her mansions and is not absolutely sure where she might find a book. The Audience – review 2013-03-10T00:06:29Z

“The person who thought it was her birthright to be incapable of self-sufficiency, the woman who expected the world to be predictable, reliable — she was gone,” Klam writes. Review | Julie Klam was fascinated by the saga of her immigrant relatives. Was it even true? 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

Embraceable personalities combined with decadent, formidable challenges to yield a season where from week to week the outcome was never entirely predictable, especially in the season's back half. "Great British Baking Show" was a showstopper, redeemed this season by fantastic contestants 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

This year’s main slate of 33 features offers a dynamic mixed bag of the sincere and the delirious, the predictable and the I-didn’t-see-that-coming unexpected. Critic’s Notebook: The New York Film Festival’s 50th Edition 2012-10-09T00:33:01Z

Our questions are often predictable: will Chinese economic growth continue? The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

I am wondering whether this is a fluke born of the ruts of a long-term marriage with its predictable ups and downs, or a clear message that the marriage is over. Carolyn Hax: After affair, the only thing certain for wife’s 25-year marriage is change 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

"Our main concern is for the Gandee family and their friends," said the network in a predictable statement. Death for a reality star, but reality TV goes on 2013-04-04T13:58:09Z

Some elements of the outcry, however, raise less predictable questions: Where does naiveté turn into ignorance, and then into racism? A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z

“Golden Boy” is at times dragged down by predictable plot mechanics that obscure the ripped-from-the-gut honesty that glittered more fiercely in earlier Odets plays. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z

In the meantime, Neon’s news caused a predictable kerfuffle on film Twitter, whose denizens like nothing better than a heated argument about a movie very few people have seen. Is Moviegoing Undemocratic? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

In an interview, he said winter has plenty of musical options, including numerous “Messiahs” and “Nutcrackers,” which “can get a bit predictable.” Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z

But even though the movie as a whole is dully predictable, director Paul W.S. 'Cold in July' starring Michael C. Hall entertains in all its genres 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

Our phone conversations fall into a predictable pattern. Ari Graynor: The First Time I Road-Tripped With My Dad 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

But despite their satisfying if somewhat predictable existence in a sleepy suburban Southern California town, June and Oscar find themselves dealing with improbable tragedies, energy-giving fountains and a mysterious briefcase-wielding weirdo. Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen Play It (Relatively) Straight 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

I loved every second of being boring and predictable. From poster mom to pariah 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

We are more of a tribe now and I can also see how much my children enjoy having one another, even with the predictable squabbling. Why three children is my magic number 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Stock situations on the rugby pitch, in the classroom and on the playground lead to predictable lessons, but they unfold in ways just unfamiliar enough to hold your interest. TV Shows to Watch From Hong Kong, Brazil, Sweden and More 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

Too many of them follow the predictable trajectory of rise, fall and subdued middle-aged comeback. ‘What killed Michael Hutchence?’: how far does the rock doc need to go in 2019? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

Many were shunted off to cable channels like Hallmark to be blandified into a predictable formula. The decline of the Netflix rom-com 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z

Given that he’s the youngest brother, and also the least predictable, maybe that’s intentional. ‘Empire’ Soundtrack: Hip-Hop That’s Ambiguously Modern 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

He is one of hip-hop’s most prolific and admired artists, and also one of the least predictable. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Lee delivers these predictable plot devices at such a desultory, even grudging pace that it is clear that the story line is not her chief interest here. All dressed up, but this 'fish story' goes nowhere 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

Unlike those places, you won’t find the rooms designed by Neruda in books of great interior design — no Louis XVI chairs, or tasteful but predictable furniture groupings. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

But the sometime downfall of roots-oriented music is that styles turn into constraints; musicians aim for correctness and end up predictable. Music Review: Jack White and Peacocks at Radio City in Full Set 2012-10-01T21:37:30Z

The storyline was a little dull and predictable and I didn't really relate to any of the characters in the book as they were all a bit shallow and dull. Swift: A dangerous magic by R J Anderson - review 2012-09-26T08:00:00Z

Compared with the freaky climate at home, the volcano seemed predictable and benign. Gardening lessons learned from visiting a Mexican farm 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, it leaves you wondering how an artist who saw so many ways to make a photograph could be so limited and predictable in his depiction of women. Art Review: ‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter’ Is on View at MoMA 2014-03-20T12:00:01Z

Instead we can turn to them, as we do to the sitcom father or the reality-show housewife, for predictable comforts. Sugar and Spice and Vicious Beatings 2011-03-10T22:21:21Z

As ominous as this may sound, the unpredictability of Georgia's peach harvest has been predictable since the industry's earliest days. Peaches are a minor part of Georgia’s economy, but they’re central to its mythology 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

If Ant and Dec's win was predictable then the drama prize proved less so, with Waterloo Road – the drama set in a comprehensive school in Rochdale – beating fellow BBC1 shows Doctor Who and Sherlock. National Television awards proclaim 'Ant and Decade' after 10th straight win 2011-01-26T22:31:03Z

Mortality may be bearing down on him, but he doesn’t respond with self-pity or sentimentality – because that would be boring, predictable and so un-Bowie like. Album review: David Bowie, 'The Next Day' 2013-03-07T17:26:00Z

He’s bluff and steady, predictable down to the timing of his bowel movements. In ‘Divorce,’ Sarah Jessica Parker Wants to Ditch Mr. Medium 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

When the series ended in 1977, Mary Richards’s life was not resolved in a predictable way. Mary Tyler Moore, TV star who became symbol of women’s liberation, dies at 80 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it was entirely predictable that that spirit of adventure and communalism would be tamed. The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

The structure of “Athena” can feel too pat, the culminating bout predictable. Review: In ‘Athena,’ Two Teenage Fencers Parry Ordinary Life 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

From one perspective, mechanically reproducing lost art does the opposite: It offers a clean answer where there are none, and relies on the predictable when the beauty is, often, in the unexpected. Artificial intelligence is restoring lost works by Klimt, Picasso and Rembrandt. Not everyone is happy about it. 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

Almost everything about the film's story is predictable after a few minutes, meaning it's easier to appreciate the movie's overall novelty than to find fresh humor in it. 'The FP': a mad mashup of fierce footwork 2012-03-15T20:56:03Z

But if the themes here are a bit predictable, well then so is patriarchy. Can Food Help Women Resist the Patriarchy? This Novel Says Yes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

The series finale, written by the show’s creator, Hans Rosenfeldt, put the perfect cap on her portrayal, in a moment that was simple, predictable and utterly moving. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Otherwise he was the model of a steady and predictable host — a no-nonsense presence, efficient in his role and comforting in his orderliness. Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ Dies at 80 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z

When the news broke Thursday that the National Gallery of Art had postponed two exhibitions because the artists have been accused of sexual misconduct, reaction from some quarters was predictable. Perspective | Is sexual harassment just a witch hunt now? That’s absurd, and here’s why. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

Their ultimate destination is a jihadi training camp, but nothing about their journeys is predictable. New & Noteworthy, From Nancy Reagan to the God Equation 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

It's of Louise and Co singing, with Marling, their debut single, Melancholy, "a maudlin treatise on whiskey, wine and the blues" that is as deeply predictable as the press release implies. New band of the day ? No 1,069: Louise and the Pins 2011-07-25T16:26:02Z

Even as it unfolds with a terrible sense of inevitability, “Fruitvale Station” is rarely predictable. Movie Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ Is Based on the Story of Oscar Grant III 2013-07-11T20:41:12Z

That flexibility, that lack of entitlement to a predictable future, is just a wonderful characteristic.” The secret to a long-lasting marriage 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

I keep telling them: “Don’t do that. Don’t turn it into another predictable Hollywood drama.” ‘The Hot Zone’ Author Tracks Ebola’s Evolution 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

I don’t want to diminish your dilemma, but yours is a fairly predictable rite of passage into adulthood. I’m trying to leave my boyfriend but my mother says it’s ‘hysteria’ | Dear Mariella 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

Less predictable, and more broadly trenchant, are Flynn’s musings on rock’s cultural evolution. The Day the Music Died 2010-02-27T05:51:00Z

I’ll go see another movie instead, since someone up here has to do the predictable thing. Telluride Film Festival: Finding Familiar Faces in New Poses 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

And, as such, it was a largely predictable comedy of contrasts. Schitt's Creek: the funniest sitcom you're (probably) not watching 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it seems that fans of these restaurants pay that kind of money precisely because the cooking is predictable. Greece and Turkey, Together on One Menu at Iris 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Everything onstage encouraged the idea that ballet was the tritest and most predictable of all art forms. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

I think that it is human nature to want something happily predictable for the first meal of the day. Seize the Morning: The Case for Breakfast 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

The murderer is a brooding caricature, and the scene in which he kills Tanya in his van is both predictable and over the top, with bloodcurdling screams and blood splattered on the window. Review: In Robert Lepage’s ‘Kanata,’ the Director, Too, Plays the Victim 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

As they progress, they maintain the same sound – which eventually appears stale and predictable – or they change direction à la Bob Dylan and their fans call them "Judas". Ask the indie professor: Why does Reading festival rock? 2010-08-24T11:59:00Z

The General Medical Council’s decision was predictable, he told me by phone. How disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield was embraced by Trump's America 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

It's a bit predictable, but brilliantly acted and spooky enough to love. "Midnight Mass" and the 8 best horror movies and shows of 2021 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The show suffers from a profound lack of momentum and meaning, with plots and subplots that are stiff and predictable. Netflix’s ‘Marco Polo’ is so plodding that it’s practically binge-proof 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

On the subject of the Sony awards, it's equally predictable and frustrating when you consider the nominations an overview of what British radio currently looks like. Call Clegg – radio review 2013-05-10T05:59:04Z

And if it’s becoming predictable to enthuse about the sustained brilliance of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her co-stars, who would want to be novel? The ecstasy of defeat: “Veep” is back and better than ever 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The illuminated birds may be visible from other nearby vantage points, like the Williamsburg Bridge or the Farragut public housing complex in Fort Greene, but not in any predictable way. Lights, Pigeons, Action! Duke Riley’s Art Spectacle Takes Wing 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

But despite the movie’s considerable rough edges, there’s little that’s predictable about it — not least the unexpectedly delicate moment on which it closes out the game. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Slammed,’ an Aspiring Pitcher Goes Nowhere Fast 2014-04-25T00:55:20Z

Death – even a death that is planned for – rarely follows an easily predictable path. Brittany Maynard’s hard choices 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

In a new England era of lowered expectations and a seemingly neverending list of injury woes, Road to Roy keeps things realistic and "signifies the subsequent disappointment at the team's predictable demise". New music: Dutch Uncles – Road to Roy 2012-06-11T10:45:00Z

But it isn’t always predictable who it will be at any given moment. Whim W’Him show lets PNB’s Andrew Bartee shine 2013-05-18T15:28:32Z

In a world where so much episodic TV is predictable, who could honestly say they saw that coming? TV highlights 30/07/2012 2012-07-29T21:00:01Z

It promises fluid, frictionless listening — an experience that can be entirely predictable, even when you don’t know exactly what’s coming next. Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

The escalation is predictable, but the scene, illuminated by revolving red police lights, is affecting nevertheless. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Pavement,’ at Harlem Stage Gatehouse 2012-11-05T22:53:34Z

It is incredibly slow going and although this improves in the course of the novel it still remains predictable and slow. The False Prince by Jennifer Neilsen - review 2012-10-05T14:00:00Z

Musicals often rely on familiar patterns — a patter song here, an “I want” number there — and biographical musicals might well be the most predictable of all. Review: ‘Little Girl Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

This is indie-folk at its most exuberant and though choruses swell and harmonies bloom it still sounds tediously predictable. The Head and the Heart: The Head and the Heart ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:29Z

This is an amiable, but essentially sentimental and predictable satire about an ordinary guy from Naples who becomes obsessed with getting on to the Italian version of Big Brother and becoming a big star. Cannes 2012 roundup: why the jury's Amour for Haneke was an anti-climax 2012-05-28T10:01:04Z

That said, not all riders are quite so predictable. The 30 weirdest items forgotten in Ubers over the past year 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

What follows is a bizarre ride through flavor development and roll-out — and the customer response is hilariously predictable. From unicorn desserts to pumpkin spice, here are the most memorable food trends of the 2010s 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

The nine other students taking Mercy's class, "Speech 217: The Art of Informal Remarks," are an agreeable enough lot, although wholly predictable. Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks's Unemployment for Beginners 2011-06-30T23:10:00Z

But to say that Farrell is a predictable winner is to undervalue his extraordinary resurrection and what it says about readers' continuing ability to recognise a great book when they see one. JG Farrell's Lost Man Booker prize for Troubles ? a literary resurrection 2010-05-20T06:00:00Z

Beers’s stars’ awareness of their own celebrity has begun to follow a predictable arc. How Thom Beers Built a Reality-TV Empire 2012-12-16T23:37:47Z

Lohan deleted the image from Instagram shortly thereafter, but not before social media was abuzz with the predictable mirth. LiLo Mixes Up the Arabic for 'Donkey' and 'Beautiful' 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

TDKR: pretentious and soulless, with half developed ideas and predictable ending. Open thread: What's your favourite British film? 2012-07-27T16:18:12Z

On the other hand, once you get past that, the story gets rather interesting, until the ending, which is rather predictable. Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari - review 2012-06-29T14:00:00Z

The argument was in many ways between events in which actors followed scripts, and events in which things proceeded in a much less predictable, more open-ended fashion. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11 Is Bigger but Not Better 2011-11-25T23:51:33Z

The final pages of “The Lost Man” are somewhat predictable, but Harper is skillful enough, a prickly, smart, effective storyteller, that it doesn’t matter. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

There were extreme highs and lows; nothing was predictable. Perspective | After losing two loved ones to covid-19, I turned to books. Here are 15 titles that helped me cope. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

In the world of this novel, nothing is easy or predictable. Book World: ‘You,’ by Zoran Drvenkar is a thriller/road novel, stylishly written

Lupo’s interpretations, free of anything predictable or routine, are entirely his own, thoughtful and fresh. Review | Pianist Lupo celebrates Debussy with thoughtful performance 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

For him human behavior isn’t the predictable result of pat psychologies but a continuous flow of irresistible impulses. Video: New DVDs: Cassavetes’s ‘Too Late Blues’; ‘The Lawless’ 2012-06-10T04:23:01Z

As a lyricist, Grohl is not immune to cliché or predictable rhyme patterns, and that tendency threatens to sink a few of the album’s quieter, more down-tempo numbers. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The “Dragon Ball” formula is repetitive and predictable. Review: ‘Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero’ Is Deluxe Fan Service 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

It is predictable in some ways, because of what's happening in Washington and around the country. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Less predictable to a degree was what he'd do with that information. The harder coming out stories on "What We Do in the Shadows" aren't what you think they'd be 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z

After reaching its peak in the early 1900s, verismo lingered into the ’20s, when its subject matter began to seem predictable, its music too unabashedly Romantic. Music Review: Melodramatic Sounds of Young Love 2011-05-25T22:22:09Z

"Older media are dominated by a view of sex as scandalous and dangerous, and its whole depiction of sex has been pretty predictable," she tells me. What effect has the internet had on our sex lives? 2011-02-06T00:05:46Z

No overarching vision arises, and little is done to elevate the creepy mood or strengthen the predictable plot. | 'Benito Cereno': ?Benito Cereno? From Horizon Theater Rep - Review 2011-10-04T21:55:39Z

His facets may be many, but if the first three episodes are any indication, they will not be predictable. In 'Crossbones,' John Malkovich as Blackbeard is the lure 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

This is all fairly predictable stuff and makes for a show that you'd watch because of the cast, but would never put in the top tier of TV shows or talk about the next day. Charlie Sheen falls into old habits with new sitcom 2012-06-27T22:18:06Z

Still, the music is permeated with Poulenc and after a while becomes predictable. Review: The Composers Concert, With David Hertzberg and Other Young Masters 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Some of these women moved to other lines of work, a predictable result of discrimination that is chronic and untreated. Scandals Keep Breaking, but Restaurateurs Have Yet to Own Up 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

“The action is especially tedious and predictable,” he wrote. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘A Christmas Story’ and ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

It is full of signifiers of soul, including Hammond organ and lyrics that talk in the most predictable, rote fashion about satisfaction and celebration. New band of the day - Allen Stone (No 1,430) 2013-01-14T16:40:56Z

Audience members also now tend to wait longer to purchase, making budgeting and marketing strategies less predictable. After a ‘Scary’ Fall, Audiences Are Coming Back to Orchestras 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

“I try not to make it predictable,” she says. Summer Stage: David Zwirner Director Bellatrix Hubert 2012-06-28T20:17:19Z

But at almost every opportunity, Avrich undermines these numbers by cutting to one of an endless lineup of talking heads, usually to repeat predictable platitudes about Peterson’s brilliance. ‘Oscar Peterson: Black + White’ Review: Never Mind the Talking Heads 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mind-reading technologies, whatever the hyperbole may suggest, will not imminently be joining the arsenal of methods available to governments and companies who wish to render us more predictable. Mind reading is possible! 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

To be the parent of a child with Down syndrome is to trigger a predictable chain of questions: How did this happen to you? “Didn’t you get tested?” 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z

We hate endings that are too predictable, and we hate endings that are too surprising. Perspective | What book has the most disappointing ending? Readers have many opinions. 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

To see people I'd come to regard as friends – really sensitive and intelligent people – acting in such despicable ways, repeating all the predictable stupidities of their predecessors . A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z

"Prom," though utterly predictable, is likably crowded with tears, giggles and a lot of lip gloss. 'Prom' ? utterly predictable but hits the right note 2011-04-28T20:08:09Z

As predictable as “Memphis” is, it’s downright audacious compared to “Johnny Baseball,” which presents its dewy hero and heroine as a pair of lovely-to-look-at-and-listen-to valentine cards. | 'Johnny Baseball': Babe Ruth Sings at American Repertory Theater 2010-06-09T21:49:00Z

But Finkel’s research shows that that the long-term survivability of a romantic relationship is predictable on the basis of three variables. You are more than a sexual fetish — but online dating sites might not think so 2014-03-15T20:30:00Z

Still, the Daily Mail is in a predictable tizz about it all. Kick-Ass Jane 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z

The score, at once predictable in the galloping rhythms and eddying climaxes and inventively unexpected in the use of solo instruments, is dazzlingly effective and wholly unmemorable. Robert le diable; Basca awards; Queen's Medal for Music – review 2012-12-09T00:07:19Z

Europe’s latest blockbuster, “Manet, the Man Who Invented Modernity,” has opened here to some giddy reviews and a few tepid ones, but in any case to the predictable mobs. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z

When specific traits are desired, such as taste or disease resistance, professional plant breeders carefully prepare two stable seed lines and cross-pollinate them to produce a predictable, reliable plant. Why heirloom seeds matter 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

The main event was predicted, though not precisely predictable; the success for covered most of the board while not going all the way across it: best film, best director, best original screenplay, best actor. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z

And so a full day backstage for a reporter begins, to record an experience both predictable and unexpected. What’s it like behind the scenes at ‘My Fair Lady’? We went backstage with Laura Benanti. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

"In an almost predictable fashion America got the Top 5 completely backwards." Box Office: Sly Preys on Julia, World Beats Pilgrim 2010-08-15T07:55:00Z

It was just sophomoric: a trite exercise in cynicism about how to win grants and ingratiate yourself with followers by performing predictable and unalarming work. Review: ‘Solos’ Features Four Women in Works Reflecting the Arab World 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

In a predictable case of art imitating life, people on Twitter have taken umbrage at the insensitive remark, with many calling out the show’s producer Amy Poehler. Twitter slams Amy Poehler for R. Kelly/Blue Ivy abuse joke: “How do you have a site dedicated to girls, and OK that line?” 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

If you’ve seen Mr. Brown’s work, which tends to repeat itself, it’s predictable and enjoyable all at once. Review: ‘Open Door’ Helps Open Alvin Ailey Season 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

David Wolstencroft, who created and wrote the show, likes jolts but not surprises; everything in “The Escape Artist” is predictable, except for the things that just don’t make sense. David Tennant Stars in ‘The Escape Artist’ on PBS 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Gore contest in Florida that ended the 2000 election — but you wrote that the events in Florida were “not only entirely predictable, but entirely familiar.” Didion on 9/11: How many times can America lose its innocence? 2013-09-16T00:00:00Z

These results are quite predictable based on the legal standard set by the U.S. Violating Student Victims' Rights Is Expensive 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Kohn also reports that at least ten studies show rewards work best on simplistic and predictable tasks. Why are Americans so easy to manipulate? 2012-10-13T14:00:00Z

The narrative beats — moments of rueful humor, suppressed anguish and cathartic weeping — arise in predictable sequence. ‘Close’ Review: This Boy’s Life 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The herd mentality can make Washington theater dully predictable, and may well stifle audience interest as the roster comes across like repetitive white noise. Perspective | Why is Washington theater so predictable? 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

An early scene set in a cemetery is sufficiently weighted that, later, when a different graveyard turns up, what takes place there is not so much moving as predictable. Review: ‘Come What May,’ an Ode to French Villagers Displaced by War 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

There’s a large waiting list—in the tens of thousands—to enroll in Healthy Indiana; enrollment was capped in order to ensure that the program’s costs remain predictable. Obama Administration Denies Waiver for Indiana's Popular Medicaid Program 2011-11-11T19:43:30Z

The weight regain is a predictable biological response to dieting. Sorry, but you’re not going to lose weight this year 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

And his “Emperor’s New Clothes”-like exposés of the art world can often feel like predictable illustrations to his 1975 book “The Painted Word.” Books Of the Times: ‘Back to Blood’ by Tom Wolfe 2012-10-18T12:00:00Z

The heroism and villainy that play out thereafter is suspenseful, if predictable. A Fictional Priest Uncovers a Long History of Clerical Child Abuse 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Shams made Rumi question the expectations for his respectable and predictable future. Rumi: America’s favorite poet, from Persia, with love 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Countless details have changed in the new version, some predictable in the move from vinyl to digital — there’s a bit more bass, though not overbearingly — and many that are brand-new judgment calls. Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

He carried Sting and Shaggy into it with a fake-vérité “subway karaoke” bit, as they sang old hits and a new collaboration to a stereotypically hostile Noo Yawk reception that was predictable from the setup. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

In the past the conceit struck me as predictable and a perhaps a little embarrassing. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. Hillary Rodham Clinton: By the Book 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

So utterly predictable and truly boring, I'm skipping more and more of these supposed prestige and "must see" films. ‘Beirut’ Trailer Was Supposed to Thrill. Instead It Offended. 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

“The show will remind us of better and simpler times when life was more predictable,” she said. ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Is Back: Help Yourself to the Fridge 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

By the time the boisterous boys and the ethereal Aidan have been fully introduced, “The Starboard Sea” has permanently parted ways with the predictable. Books of The Times: ?The Starboard Sea,? a Novel by Amber Dermont 2012-02-28T23:57:01Z

Her ascension generated the predictable buzz in Washington. Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post 2013-08-02T20:48:16Z

The report also said that an investigation by the medical examiner’s office found that Ms. Rivers’s death was “a predictable complication of medical therapy.” For Joan Rivers’s Doctor, Fame Delivers Its Bill 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

If you are entirely satisfied with life, or at least resigned to the inevitability of it running its course in ways that seem tolerably predictable, it may not be the film for you. I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

What happened was no more predictable than Halley’s comet. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Hi, 2016 Trump voters. We have to talk. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

There has been some predictable turnover with a new regime. Morning show is latest CNN change under Zucker 2013-06-15T15:37:08Z

Either they’re predictable — you know, little green men speaking an echoey, indecipherable language or stereotypical “Greys” with the big eyes and the egghead — or they look fake. The aliens in ‘Arrival’ are stunning. How do they compare to other film creatures? 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Villain in the making: Model Courtney, who delivered the utterly predictable and obligatory reality show line, “I’m not here to make friends.” The Bachelor: Meet Ben and His 25 Sorta Crazy Girlfriends 2012-01-03T14:40:43Z

If the search for the "real" Melville that occupies the novel's final stretch proves faintly predictable, then the fairytale ending is quite as far-fetched as the machinations of the obligatory rainforest-despoiling corporation. The Truth by Michael Palin – review 2012-07-13T21:55:03Z

They also fail to follow any sort of predictable format for the genre. The genius of Sacha Baron Cohen: 5 comedy strategies that make his insane interviews work 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

"It's been legally predictable that the Arab-Israeli authors selected would not be allowed to travel to Beirut to join the festival," he said. Writer petitions the Israeli supreme court over travel ban 2010-03-26T15:04:00Z

In Los Angeles, she said, outlets like TMZ and “Access Hollywood” would gorge on such predictable routines. Can New York Save Lindsay Lohan? 2010-08-20T23:10:00Z

The space is handsome but predictable, with Edison bulbs, reclaimed wood and — you guessed it — Mason jars, the visual cliches of contemporary dining and Pinterest. Mason Social, where a community hungry for service meets and eats 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

But to less partial ears it seems predictable and hastily assembled. A list of discs for holiday listening 2010-12-23T00:54:38Z

The predictable story arc is spiced up by Darby’s frequent, sassy asides to the camera, reminiscent of the TV series “Fleabag.” ‘Darby and the Dead’ Review: Sixteen With a Sixth Sense 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

They are imperfect and often predictable, and yet — by the end of it all, we're the ones cheering them on. How the real-life "Cheer" team became fodder for an "SNL" spoof and memes 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The social media scorecard for Raddatz became more predictable as the debate went on, as Slate magazine noted in one tweet: "Liberals think Martha Raddatz is the best debate moderator ever, conservatives think the worst." Forceful Raddatz draws praise as moderator 2012-10-12T13:16:13Z

“Bring it in, Champ!” he says, with a predictable aphorism about apples falling from trees. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

While tech-assisted insulation from the people around us can be lonely, it’s also convenient, safe and predictable. Thumbs up for three new books that capture hitchhiking’s adventurous spirit 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

That’s predictable, given the high studio stakes and the industry’s faith in spectacles of destruction, but it doesn’t obliterate the movie’s pleasures. Tom Cruise Battles Invaders in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The Chinese government reacted to their departure with predictable pressure, Lisa remembers. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Getting that need met in a timely fashion tells the baby that the world—or, at least, the baby’s world—is predictable, reliable, and worth feeling good about. Babies need extreme comfort to overcome the damaging effects of stress 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

Becoming just as predictable as her screech is the director's cutaway to reveal Magnus' kicks. Return To Sender: Two more 'American Idol' hopefuls please! 2010-04-14T15:48:00Z

The gun guys were certain that it was all staged; the combination of ethnic minority and “wrong” political affiliation exploded Republican brains, leading to the predictable conclusion that it was all faked. Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter 2014-01-31T00:00:00Z