Like our lives, these paintings are not seamless, rational, predictable worlds.

Unexpected crisis wreck the safe, predictable world a man has built for himself and his family.

We have this bright world of daylight, predictable and comfortable to us.

Computerized personalities soon felt they were prisoners in tiny, predictable worlds.

Just how far were we going beyond the safe, predictable world of scheduled travel?

From a youthful safe haven, students would graduate into a larger, less predictable world.

(p123) But risks cannot be avoided in making the world predictable and safe.

Perkinites dream of a nice, predictable world, where everyone grows up knowing who and what she is.

Some politicians say those negotiations will make the old predictable two-party world seem like simplicity itself.

New conflicts in a less predictable world could revive old nuclear anxieties.