Sentence examples for is thoroughly predictable from inspiring English sources

Say this for Congressman Don Young: He is thoroughly predictable and, on energy and environmental matters, almost always wrong.

The novel's depiction of a master-of-the-universe type -- a fabulously wealthy asset manager named Eric, who at 28 is a monster of arrogance, vulgarity and contempt -- is thoroughly predictable.

Joshua Klein of The A.V. Club was also unconvinced, remarking that "[this] sort of agitprop is thoroughly predictable, and the only thing that could prove shocking about Manson's antics would be if the singer actually evinced any power over his followers.

If unpredictability is the one quality that is thoroughly predictable in this "Heir Apparent," none of its twists arrive with as much surprise as its conclusion, which wraps up with happy couples all around and a suggestion that greed isn't necessarily good.

It was "thoroughly predictable," he added, that taking such a hard negotiating line would end in virtually no gain for the Republicans.

The pathetic part is that Friday's first half was thoroughly predictable — a nation of 2 million sends out a resourceful and talented side that plays its game.

The excellent Nico Gaitan's deadlock breaker five minutes later was thoroughly predictable, then, and Benfica's energy intensified to the extent that former Fulham misfit Kostas Mitroglou added a second afterwards.

I was thoroughly disappointed.

I was thoroughly grateful, thoroughly angry, and thoroughly scared.

It was a poignant, unsettling and thoroughly predictable finish to a French Open match in which Larcher de Brito's competitive fire, scrappy defense and remarkable ball-striking were overshadowed by her shrieks and her bellicose body language.

Paterson, by contrast, seems recessive, reactive and, insofar as the entire movie is based on patterns of repetition, thoroughly predictable.