It's part of his pattern.
"It was all part of his pattern of political expediency," he said.
Because he was not familiar with Benes, Hernandez called a different game, getting Benes out of his pattern of mainly throwing fastballs.
He moves unpredictably, making "sudden reversals of direction," favoring "a constant rupture of his pattern of movement," so that he arrives without warning where least expected, his routes "unpredictable and unknown".
Calvert contends that, knowing his admitted history, they should not have allowed him to open the second account, and failed in "a duty of care" to refuse his bets when it was clear they were part of his pattern.
Yet by now the atmosphere is so thick, the talk so assured, the performances so disciplined and the fear so fearsome, that Mr. Refn's final iteration of his pattern achieves the hard, bright light of an archetype from hell.
Against the Packers, 10 passes were thrown to him and he caught 9, the sole miss coming when he slipped on slick turf coming out of his pattern and the ball skipped in front of him.
He's an even more cerebral improviser than Mr. Osby, though the elegance of his pattern-work, and the relative absence of cliché, gives his playing a coolly intuitive air.
If it has punched above its weight in the 40 years of Qaddafi rule, it is largely because of his pattern, discarded only in recent years, of promoting terrorism abroad.
Instead, journalists keep searching for rational "explanations" to Trump's presidential behavior, trying to make sense of his pattern of telling obvious lies.
