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.
So far, reactions to Munich have been predictable and essentially emotional.
Part of the appeal of solar power as a long-term investment, he said, was that the sun's cost as a fuel was predictable and essentially free.
Mixing pop savvy with startling formal ambition, Mr. Mann transforms what is essentially a long, fairly predictable cop-show episode into a dazzling (and sometimes daft) Wagnerian spectacle.
The Chinese system, although it's not like ours, is essentially conservative, and therefore predictable.
Read the whole lawsuit here, and Travolta's swift and predictable rebuttal – essentially 'I was on the other side of the United States, FFS!' – here.
To project debt forward as the Austerity mongers do is to assume a predictable future economy, essentially a zerosum economy which can only increase wealth by depressing costs – wages, safety standards, taxes – that is to say, by moving wealth away from the general population.
While in some cases different parameters or reactions could alternatively be modulated by an input, we will regard the designated input as the primary input, since such other modulation either has essentially similar effects or otherwise predictable effects.
I find nearly all the moves the traditional novel makes unbelievably predictable, tired, contrived, and essentially purposeless.
