Because just as the movie races toward its foregone conclusion, it also begins siphoning off the excitement it has been building up all along.
Though China's rise is still not a foregone conclusion, its success to date is beyond dispute.
The program treads gingerly as it reaches its (foregone) well-meaning conclusion: that people should coexist even when they disagree with one another.
But, he added, "the steel, to me, it's almost a foregone conclusion that its gone".
"The A-Team" is so chockablock with big, crazy set pieces — flying tanks, a shell game played with shipping containers, a new explosion every minute — that it grows tedious long before the story has reached its foregone conclusion.
And so there's no excitement as the movie plods to its foregone conclusion.
Instead of deepening the material, however, the narrative twists feel like purely formal interventions, intended to keep the film moving toward its foregone, heavily moralistic conclusion.
Malaysian Muslim singer Yuna, famous for spreading new headscarf trends, has taken the camel hump to its foregone conclusion in the now ubiquitous African-wrap hijab style.
According to The Telegraph, Gervais' Foregone Conclusion made its debut in 2013 with three live shows at London's Bloomsbury Theatre -- each sold out in less than 15 seconds.
But even such reticence puts it far ahead of Saudi Arabia, which legendarily plays the obstructionist role at these talks and insists that if countries decide to put a price on carbon, they will have to compensate the kingdom for its foregone profits.
