It would be depressingly predictable to fall for the first interesting woman he met as a sort of bandage for the heart.

Animal welfare groups have called animal deaths "depressingly predictable" and seek a boycott of the rodeo.

Whereas if Mary is eight years old and known to be an intrepid skipper, the announcement may be one of a depressingly predictable series.

I'm afraid I'm one of those who has posted 'depressingly predictable' responses before to all this.

Well this all looks depressingly predictable doesn't it?

Like Jordan's naughty-girl/good-girl shtick, these tunes are depressingly predictable.

One thing about this race has turned out to be depressingly predictable.

Which is depressingly predictable, but it's still a refreshing counterpoint to the terraces of the 1980s.

It's depressingly predictable.

No one is complaining because, barring a medical breakthrough, the course of AIDS in the United States appears to be depressingly predictable.