Sentence examples for predictable references from inspiring English sources

The walls were filled with placards, from the predictable (references to Gandhi, Nkrumah and other radical heroes), to the creative (one poster announced stilt-training sessions), to the bizarre ("Let's overthrow the King", a poster denouncing Elvis Presley as a symbol of America's ills).

Aside from some contemporary phrasing in the translations that rings predictable bells -- references to "the administration" and "spin doctors" -- the production avoids any strenuous efforts to present the play as a potent fable for our time.

A library-inspired niche that's seemingly twee and predictable, with Borges references and miniature Bibles nestled in hollow books, abruptly detours into contemporary search-engine science: Chris Mann and Sepand Ansari's 010011.net, an interactive Web-based project described by Mr. Mann as "an anti Google" and "a celebration of the question you are trying to learn how to ask".

Predictable predictions?

IBM "couldn't handle a predictable problem", a reference to the denial of service attacks that shut down the ABS website on census night in August.

While the effect of the first type of cracking on the dynamic behavior of RC beams has already been investigated (Breccolotti et al. 2008; Breccolotti and Materazzi 2008), that of the second type is not easily predictable and no relevant references have been found in literature.

In the end, editors made a few predictable deletions — including a reference to the Tiananmen Square crackdown and a passage in which the artist Ai Weiwei criticizes the city's leaders — and a title change that sought to cast the book as a nostalgic love letter ("See You Again, Old Beijing").

The news release for Ruth Root's first solo at Andrew Kreps since 2003 is an illustrated litany of free-associative visual references, some more predictable than others.

As has become customary at Chanel, the immersive catwalk experience paid strict attention to detail, with the tongue-in-cheek references delightful or predictable, depending on your point of view.

And his "Alan Alda" reference was perfect in its randomness, much more effective than the predictable "George Clooney" illustration in the source he linked to.

Finally, I want to re-emphasise my main challenge to government: to design a clear National Data Strategy founded on a national core reference dataset with a visible, predictable, auditable implementation plan.