Now "Good Grief," which has gotten off to an appealing start, begins to fill up with predictable elements.

The one predictable element of his reading, though, is the gorgeous, velvety sound of his chorus.

Alongside these sadly predictable elements, the French Quarter seems relatively soulful.

The first piece works perhaps better in concert, with the predictable and secondhand elements of rococo farce kept out of sight.

But focus is a more predictable element than emotion, a reason Coughlin is distinguishing between the two.

Inconsistency in the food and in the service seems so far to be the only predictable element.

Snodgrass cites many predictable elements, including the core "confrontation between an overconfident male and an assertive girl-woman".

There were, of course, some entirely predictable elements in the voting patterns of the justices.

By all accounts, the most un predictable elements of the Academy Awards are both the critical and the box-office responses to various movies.

It is a refreshing departure from the predictable and the prosaic elements that one encounters in many, if not most, Filipino films.