Because just as the movie races toward its foregone conclusion, it also begins siphoning off the excitement it has been building up all along.
Delivering his annual Autumn Statement to Parliament, Osborne conceded that the British economy will hardly grow at all in 2011 or 2012, and he further admitted that if the rest of Europe heads into recession, which is pretty much a foregone conclusion, "it may prove hard to avoid one here in the U.K".
After Allan Houston and his agent, Bill Strickland, met with Knicks officials in Manhattan on Thursday night to negotiate Houston's long-term contract, both sides were satisfied that the deal would be formalized July 18. "It's a foregone conclusion, it's going to happen," said a person familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
As much as a Coalition win is being touted as a foregone conclusion, it's worth stating the obvious: it's not over until the last vote is counted.
If HP had gone under during the recession -- and it was by no means a foregone conclusion it would have survived the recession -- then every employee at HP would have lost their job.
For starters, a Milosevic conviction may not be the foregone conclusion it appears to be.
"While a space race is not a foregone conclusion, it is a possibility".
In fact, if you want to point to the day when hedge fund regulation became a foregone conclusion, it was this Thursday.
If ever this series looked a foregone conclusion, it was in the opposite direction, given Sri Lanka's recent frailty and Australia's record.
This time, "from what I've heard from people in the union, a strike is a foregone conclusion; it's a matter of how long," said Patrick J. Comack, an analyst with Guzman & Company, a market research firm.
