For example, in a recent speech to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the GOP candidate predictably attempted to strike a more moderate tone on immigration.
He praised the pupil premium for helping children on free school meals and predictably attacked the "militant" unions for striking on the day of his speech.
But it is fire season again in the West and, predictably, House Republicans have struck again, passing a similar measure, almost entirely along party lines, that all but gives away public forests to logging companies.
Manuel Pellegrini asked Manchester City for nine more wins to secure the title and here was the first of them, in the end a predictably comfortable goalfest against a stricken Aston Villa.
Opening in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, and then around the country, it struck me as predictably plotted but with several elements to recommend it: a) Terence Stamp b) Vanessa Redgrave c) Ms. Redgrave, now 75, movingly singing Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" d) An energetic choir of other older singers, mostly recruited from actual community choruses in England.
Predictably, the huge blizzard that struck the Northeast dominated many front pages in Saturday's newspapers.
And while the cancer treatment was predictably punishing for me, I was struck by the anguish of the IVF process and in particularly the failed cycle.
So, predictably, "The Newsroom" continually sets up straw-man villains for Will to strike down, which only serves to make him seem pompous and even bullying at times.
Throughout this predictably authorized biography, he accepts answers from his subject that any lawyer would strike as nonresponsive: "I've never been a blamer"; "I don't know myself whether it was really good or not.
Reading recently about Rocket Internet, a German e-commerce company-builder, Johnson was struck by how the company seems to coin names that are boring but predictably pronounceable.
This struck Quirk as wrong, at least, and he tried to pursue the case, with predictably Kafkaesque results (inconsistent royalty rates, inexplicable omissions, and so forth).
