Word: predictably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, so what? Before Kevin Costner's smash Dances with Wolves opened, the town's grumble bunnies were calling it Kevin's Gate. Which is not to predict that Billy B. will be a hit; it lacks, by design, the grapefruit-in-your-face impact of most gangster classics. But this is superior filmmaking, as handsomely conceived and realized as Dick Tracy, but darker, more resonant. It has a grace and a gravity rare just now in American films. Oh, and Willis, as a high-living hoodlum, is one dandy dandy...
...Canaan, Conn. One of the guests, a New Age true believer, overheard me say I was convinced that coffee was making my hands feel clammy though my doctor had scoffed at the connection. "You're allergic to caffeine, just like my husband," she said, and cheerfully proceeded to predict a succession of problems that would eventually leave me a twitching wreck. O.K., I said, irritated, but how would I stay awake to finish the book I was working on? "Try beer," offered another convert. "Drinking one every hour won't get you plastered, and it has a lot of protein...
Yeltsin's admirers point out that he has always been at his best in a crisis and predict that he will yet come up with a strong and effective stabilization program, maybe even this week when the Russian congress of people's deputies begins to meet. He had better not wait much longer; there are signs that traditionalist forces, which had been quiescent since the failed coup, are reviving. Official trade unions, which were bastions of the communist regime, rallied 50,000 people in Moscow last week to protest falling living standards. $ Their placards carried a warning Yeltsin...
Here, Phaedrus deconstructs the phrase without an appreciation of the larger theory. He assumes that Darwinism claims to predict the future. It doesn't. This is only one among several instances in which the narrator twists the ideas of others to fit his theory. The narrator consistantly employs this and other tactics to divert the discussion from the focal issues of the philosophies he refutes...
...Crimson's mercurial play makes it extremely difficult to predict how it will match up against the Lady Friars...