Accusations of cheating also roll around, with all the predictability of the annual monsoon.
They swing wildly from danceable, hummable motifs to chaotic passages with all the predictability of a pinball game.
For all the predictability of the last few months, however, Ms. Harrison did take comfort in one thing: with 44 days until the election, surprises are still possible.
1.20pm: Rain stops play Venus begins to serve the next game, but then, with all the predictability of Tim Henman fist-pump, the heavens open and spray their load all over SW19.
Interrupted on Tuesday night by the rain that sweeps through New York with all the predictability of an unwelcome debtor at this time of year, she rediscovered her poise to win 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in two hours and 32 minutes, but will be concerned that she served 11 double-faults along the way, which more than cancelled out her 10 aces.
The ability to predict where wind will blow and how hard is therefore crucial if wind power is to live up to its boosters' hopes.IBM's system increases this all-important predictability using a handful of sophisticated technologies.
For all the dismal predictability of our politics, the landscape is in the process of being at least partially reordered, and not only because of the Republican victory in the midterm election.
For all these people, predictability was just another empty promise sold to the beneficiaries of the post-war boom alongside Campbell's Soup and no-rip pantyhose.
"There's a predictability to it all," he said.
But at the end of the day, it's going to give us all some predictability.
