Harley Slaughter was no trained seal with wholly predictable moves, but a trailwise gunsel who had jumped bail from a capital offense.

In the case of the latter, it has made for a book that feels insular, defensive and wholly predictable.

With everyone in place, "Extreme" mixes wholly predictable romantic complications, none of which seem to care about sexually transmitted diseases, with one big rescue per episode.

This was wholly predictable.

Chewbacca replied with a wholly predictable roar of protest, but Han shouted right back at him.

Once its premise has been established, "Needful Things" devotes itself to wholly predictable skirmishes, some of them staged with a strained irony that only makes matters worse.

In his mind, he saw the huge structure simply as a giant cog, moving within its per-fect circle, wholly predictable, reassuringly stable.

The political uproar that follows is wholly predictable.

The issue is that there is an opt-out and it is wholly predictable that the UK has reservations, as you said in your letter.

It was wholly predictable that when they came to power they would open the Treasury books and declare it all to be much worse than they feared.