Sentence examples for predictable roles from inspiring English sources

On Friday he played with his back to the band, the hypermelodic prow of a ship whose oarsmen (including the drummer Martin Drew) now had more predictable roles.

He also has a remarkable knack for using animals in a story, for giving them distinctive personalities and specific, although not dully predictable, roles to play.

The next day, after I reported the conversation to Dr. Sulloway, he said my children had defaulted to predictable roles, based on birth order.

While the political pundits have dubbed the elections of 2006, 2008 and now 2010 as "change elections," election nights in Washington have tended to follow similar patterns and are observed in familiar venues, with each side playing predictable roles.

We get the predictable roles, and those are fine they're happy to do them.

And while "Being Mary Jane" isn't running on a network like the aforementioned shows, it's of note in the discussion on the evolution of black women on television, because it strays from the predictable roles black women have had to portray over the years.

The report doesn't define what a "repetitive and predictable" role is.

He says he wants to discuss a framework allowing Japan to play a more predictable role in the world's troublespots.

A Hollywood script has a predictable role for a corporate executive: He's a greedy, profiteering lout, likely to resort to murder to further his aims.

As Home Depot's Bernard Marcus and others have pointed out, for all of David Souter's predictable role on the court's liberal side in most high-profile cases, he in fact steered to middle-of-the-road, hard-to-characterize views on many issues of litigation, liability and procedure, either as a swing vote or as the author of opinions.

Dunlop, Coyte and McIsaac have shown that despite Canada's provision of universal healthcare, socioeconomic status still plays a predictable role in the use of physician services [ 7].