Sentence examples for unpredictable ideas from inspiring English sources

In "The Sleeping Beauty" the French filmmaker Catherine Breillat, much as she did with her last movie, "Bluebeard," deconstructs a classic fairy tale with her customary intelligence, eccentric wit and predictably unpredictable ideas on sex and gender, men and women.

But the problem with modernization theory was always a tendency to concentrate most of its attention on the steadily progressing phases of history, as determined by the predictable workings of sociology or economics or psychology — and to relegate the free play of unpredictable ideas and ideologies to the margins of world events.

At the end of 1996, it had $1.8 billion in cash and short-term investments—a sum equivalent to 63% of its annual sales.Regardless of how many ideas it develops, Thermo also faces a dilemma that has long confounded more orthodox ideas factories such as 3M (the company that invented the Post-it Note): how to craft a coherent, long-term strategy from an unpredictable ideas machine.

Serious immersion in Cage's work conditions performers to an unusual degree of openness: to meaningful incursions into the unpredictable; to ideas that arise from outside the world of music; and to selfless acceptance of input from collaborators with strong ideas of their own.

His line was deft, and his ideas unpredictable; a unicorn on a unicycle, for instance.

His precise, punchy attack and unpredictable flow of ideas lifted the band during "The Edenist," "The Year of the Rabbit" and a tune provisionally titled "Rock 2," which had the longest stretch of tenor-and-trumpet crosstalk.

Tiler Peck, showing a new Irene Dunne-like composure of manner, played beautifully with the way Robbins's choreography catches the music's pauses and its gentle, unpredictable clusters of ideas.

Because what I feel I lose in all this noise is creativity and original thought – random, unpredictable, exciting bursts of ideas that bubble up when you least expect them.

Negan, by contrast, was unpredictable: you had no idea who he'd murder next.

"This is the world's gray swan," Mr. Sorrell told me, in a play on the idea of unpredictable, powerful "black swan" events, popularized by the financial scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

The beauty of math lies in the unpredictable – in capturing the idea, that moment when the abstract turns sublime.