Sentence examples for predictable affairs from inspiring English sources

We tend to think of Republican presidential campaigns as pretty prim, predictable affairs.

Perhaps Radiohead's intro shouldn't have surprised so much; final days at festivals often descend into looser, less predictable affairs.

When that happens, the underlying partisanship kicks in, and most such contests are boring, predictable affairs -- meaning that all the real action was determining which candidate associated with the majority party advanced to the runoff.

War has become a far more chronic, less predictable affair.

SINCE the 1970s, provincial politics in Quebec has been a predictable affair.

And OK, this was by and large a pretty predictable affair.

Leftovers for breakfast began yielding to bread and pastry in the early- to mid-19th century, thanks to the cookstove, which made baking a more predictable affair.

Until the Peloponnesian War, warfare among the various Greek city-states had for centuries been a regular, predictable affair — part of the rhythmic cycle of seasons.

Tony Award season sure does feel like a protracted battle sometimes, and in the aftermath of this bloody (if mostly predictable) affair Broadway shows will shutter one by one over the next couple of months.

Usually the world's top architecture prize is a predictable affair, going to one of the few internationally renowned starchitects who hadn't been awarded it already (Foster, Rogers, Gehry, Zumthor, Hadid, Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron, Nouvel, they've all got one).

According to one perspective, the ceremony was a cowardly and predictable affair, during which the most famous people in America (save for the one in the White House) came together on an enormous platform and squandered it.