It also seemed predictable and too comfortable, a deadly combination.
"It seemed predictable," said Jim Bruno, a custom T-shirt producer from Denver who had flown in earlier in the day and stumbled upon the ceremony.
The metropolitan gaudiness, the hustle and bustle, the fever and the throb left me cold; it all seemed so predictable, even bland.
From a rivalry that seemed predictable, it was a marvellous, unexpected, match-changing shot.
Its first response to OpenKinect seemed predictable: CNET reported an unnamed spokesperson declaring that the company "does not condone the modification of its products" and would "work closely with law enforcement... to keep Kinect tamper-resistant".
But it only seems predictable after the fact, after you've processed the picture and the particular embarrassed understatement of that phrase.
Traditional Republican supporters, like large drug companies, praise him, so it might seem predictable that he would take a strong stand as he is doing this week against importing prescription drugs from Canada, a practice that undercuts prices here.
For better or for worse, the world seemed predictable again, and one user made his prediction bold.
Once all the regulatory hurdles had been overcome, "it seems predictable that the next step would be the actual release," he says.
Although this observation may, on the face of it, seem predictable from our studies on COX expression, it was essential to check.
Ten successive wins in qualifying for Euro 2016 have been followed by a clear defeat on the first occasion they play one of Europe's leading nations and by now, it all seems terribly predictable.
