Now, however, that natural prediction system is being constantly wrong-footed.
What's so amazing about the play is the way it constantly wrong-foots the audience and, indeed, Henry.
But Thatcher was increasingly antipathetic to all council independence, Tory as well as Labour, and Jenkin found himself in direct confrontation, constantly wrong-footed by Livingstone over the Greater London council and having to explain why the administration was so hostile to local democracy.
This belief persists despite Centrists being constantly wrong-footed by events they don't see coming.
J. Frank Johnson, dir. of the Div. of Bridges, who has been on the job for 46 years, said that little things are constantly going wrong with one or another of the 49 city bridge under his supervision.
Part modern-day Job, part existential Charlie Brown, part long-suffering hero out of Bernard Malamud or Ian McEwan, Golding was a man for whom things constantly went wrong, yet he resolutely soldiered on.
Jack is the ultimate boys' hero, a man who constantly does wrong in order to do right, whose tortured life is driven only to save the things he treasures.
Since we are forced to act under conditions of uncertainty, it might seem to follow that we are condemned to a life of moral error, constantly making wrong choices on the basis of inadequate perceptions of the goodness and badness of objects.
And in many ways, video gaming is constantly asking the wrong questions to the wrong people.
"We just constantly prove people wrong.
But there is constantly something going wrong with it.
