Tall buildings have a predictable chance of being struck, one that increases with height.
The home is four stories tall and includes a predictable set of niceties, including skylights, a garden and chandeliers.
He works the same predictable magic on a tall, freestanding plank, a gnarly tree limb or torn scraps of wallpaper.
Or at least until Gervais' character discovers his capacity for constructing a tall tale or two, and the predictable mayhem ensues.
Tall buildings: "Overblown phallic structures and depressingly predictable antennae that say more about an architectural ego than any kind of craftsmanship".
Growing up in Australia, the bodies that pervaded my landscape, from magazines to TV to books, were predictable in their sameness: mostly white, tall and thin, blonde, sun-kissed, and – being Australia – perpetually bikini-clad.
The idea is that as backhoes yank at these cables that have been attached to the 100-foot-tall sections, the steel will snap in a predictable place and fall safely to the ground.
Or, as author James Morgan puts it in his bittersweet travelogue, The Distance to the Moon, "Life is confined to prepackaged pods placed at predictable intervals, signified by bold symbols perched atop tall poles".
The continents, Easter Island, a white horse, waterfalls and beaches -- the usual irrelevant backdrops to the main event, skyscraper-tall women with tousled hair and exposed skin, all in predictable poses.
