There are aberrations to this pattern, but the pattern itself is unmistakable.
Houndstooth remained the heraldic pattern, but the estate was growing musty.
He and his wife talked with the company about designing a pattern, but the talks went nowhere, he said.
Both Lanchester and McEwan narrate in the present tense: a whole life may fall into a pattern, but the events of a single day are provisional, unforeseeable.
What's interesting, though, is that not only do the county averages show this disturbing pattern, but the consistency with which this anomaly appears is quite extraordinary.
When Mr. McMurray joins that procession, he gets a laugh — from the timing, the completion of the pattern — but the meaning, fully considered, carries the chill of death.
Appaloosa (leopard complex) is another extremely variable pattern, but the term generally refers to a large white patch over the hips and loin, with scattered irregular dark spots.
We may not be looking at a consistently occurring pattern, but the bad-start-turned-successful-year at least has precedent in Nelson's statistical profile.
The dialogues do not follow the Platonic, or dialectic, pattern but the Aristotelian, in which speakers expounded already formed opinions at greater length.
Normally, these holes are arranged in a hexagonal pattern, but the algorithm generated a bizarre flower-like pattern of holes that no human would have thought of trying.
Both the slump of the mid-1970s and the slump of the early 80s fitted this pattern, but the recent slump has not: So why the difference?
