For one thing, we're served a satisfyingly full, and even predictable, narrative.
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But no one can deny that these union workers savor something that is all too rare in the retail industry right now: guaranteed minimum hours — for part-time and full-time employees — and predictable schedules.
Full of predictable melodramatic flourishes but no psychology, in any meaningful sense of the word, the desires and despairs of Cruz's charming but thinly drawn characters cry out for song, not speech.
One son comes out as gay, a development that occupies much of the pilot, but it'll likely be a typical CBS sitcom going forward: full of broad characters and predictable moments but reasonably amusing and decently made.
The most relevant finding was that these five calls consisted of a call stem that differed in terms of the basic frequency contours and could be followed by an optional suffix-like small and inconspicuous vocal unit, which altered the semantic content of the full call in significant and predictable ways.
Being by myself abroad was empowering and full of wonders, not shameful and predictable like it was at home.
Life is so full of rules and so full of predictable routines that one can almost forget that art and life depend on spontaneity.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Lin's current season of discovery, full of predictable highs and lows, has been the achievement of the unremarkable.
Aside from an upset and surprise here and there (Andre Braugher finally getting his due for "Homicide," Garry Shandling winning some long overdue recognition for writing "Larry Sanders, David Lettermann re-emerging as a winner in the variety category), the show is full of predictable moments and speeches from people who gave pretty much the same speech several times before.
He's at his worst — in, say, the abysmal "Bay of Souls" — when he's pontificating (or allowing his heroes to pontificate) about the meaning of life, and stuffing his story lines full of predictable, prepackaged B-movie tropes.
