As for Gradel and the situation at Leeds with Master Bates, from where I'm sitting it was, if not inevitable, then certainly painfully predictable.

The IMF riot is painfully predictable.

We, as a group, were painfully predictable.

Every character and event falls under the category of painfully predictable.

And it would be enough to provoke the painfully predictable, almost Pavlovian reaction among enough white middle-class voters to carry the day.

The advice is perfectly valid but painfully predictable.

Now I find the jokes on "Bewitched" painfully predictable and the plot lines hopelessly unsophisticated.

No, just painfully predictable.

The film's humor does turn painfully predictable at times.

Rajeev Masand called it "painfully predictable" and gave it one out of five stars.