Sentences with phrase «but predictable end»

By the time of her death in 2011, Alliluyeva was living in near poverty in Wisconsin — an anything but predictable end for a Kremlin princess.
The resignation of the entire Social Mobility Commission was a sad but predictable end to the year, and it remains to be seen whether the government will appoint new and credible commissioners.
There are a few twists I didn't see coming, but a predictable ending kept the story from being great.

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That's predictable, but at least it doesn't end the same way as Cartman's «Enemy Chili.»
But due to the predictable nature of political campaign positions — win or lose, campaigns end after the election — every job came with an expiration date, he explained to Farnoosh Torabi on an episode of her So Money podcast.
Disney and its predictable storylines and happy endings are all very well for children's fairy tales but they don't help us when we enter into an adult marriage, with its struggles and difficulties.
But if that is the position, one must now hold that the predictable aspects of the apple's flight and end are timeless, whereas the aspects that are indefinite prior to the fall are temporal.
The other day I witnessed to a guy at my job (he is homosexual and really hasn't been presented with the gospel) I stated the freeness of it and he said «Well then I guess I could just go and sin as much as I want and at the end believe» - I said «Well, you could, but you may not get the chance because your death may not be as slow or as predictable as you assume».
Wild yeast is less predictable but the end product, in this case, is well worth the risk.
It always seems like there's a predictable progression with the Mets that begins with «John Pitch has a little elbow tenderness, but he's not expected to miss a start,» and ends with «The ashes of John Pitch's elbow were shot into space on Saturday, in a ceremony attended by Pitch, who is just a head on a wagon now, and his family.»
I am sure this will be today's lineup, why because is predictable as it's WENGER, but today is not about complaining against Le Prof at least not till the game ends, hopefully by then we will be chanting his praises like good old AKB»S........
But I think I would substantially have better odds betting that he signs an injured has been that can't play until 2 months later or even signing no one and our players will keep getting injured as usual culminating in a predictable end to the season once again.
Having a predictable ending does not really hurt a match in most cases, but you still have to get to the ending in an interesting fashion.
It sort of work towards the end of last season cos Chamberlain was deployed as our wingback and Monreal manning the other wing but now with Bellerin and Kolasinac (very predictable players with no set skills) it's affecting us seriously.
But M, played with predictable perfection by Judi Dench, ends her inquiry evidence with an Alfred Tennyson quote which summarises a much more modern view of Britain in the post-colonial era.
But a new Duke University study of nearly 29,000 trees at two research forests in North Carolina reveals it's not always a swift or predictable end.
This could easily have turned out to be one of those formula feel good films with their predictable story book endings but, In the capable hands of director Mara Nair («Amelia»), she brings warmth, emotion and an understanding of the Ugandan culture into this lovely and heart warming film.
The spoof of consumerism scores some predictable points, but the tidy ending is a sell - out to the ultimate marketing machine: Hollywood.
It should come as no shock that the answer is «yes», but the movie doesn't make it a predictable ride with a clear - cut ending.
The trailers had a few chuckles, but I truly expected this film to be a bunch of misfires, along with a cliched premise that would be predictable from beginning to end.
It's often predictable and to the grimdark end of the Quality Drama tonal spectrum, but the period itself is fairly novel (Carnivale was over a decade ago), and it plays its familiar tunes with brisk competence.
But in the end, the execution is so ploddingly predictable and - in the case of the star - so shallow that the outcome is a disappointment.
Having never read the book I'm rating it as just a film and it's really a film that starts well then gets predictable then got silly and confusing, The story was not new but it had a different take on it, It wasn't acted very well but it had some good intense scenes that were done well, With a good cast the story should of been told more deeper and we never really know how it all started which was quite annoying, I did like the ending but the scenes before that completely ruined the film as they didn't make sense or were done that well, It's not a bad film it's just poor for what was on offer.
The only reason my rating is so high is the fact that I never expected it to be as good as it was, It come as quite a surprise how funny it was, Ice Cube basically plays the same character that made his role in the Jump Street films so good, It's nothing new but it's full of cheap laughs from start to finish and the fight at the end was pretty entertaining, Yes it's predictable but it's allot of fun.
It seemed at first to be completely predictable with Dexter going to kill the Trinity killer with just a few season lengthening twists thrown in (though the season was fantastic to begin with) but with the final episode my heart absolutely dropped to an ending that I did not expect once so ever.
Unfortunately, the film does not fulfil its potential and slides into a predictable, formula ending, but the skillful direction and the good performance of Busey make this film well - worth viewing.
Romantic comedies are always the same, predictable, not original and whatever happens they always end up together.And this movie is no exception but, it still manages to be entertaining thanks to Simon Pegg's brilliant performance.
The execution wasn't fantastic because it was very predictable and I thought the ending was deeply flawed but it's not a bad film.
There is plenty of claret on display and some gruesome kills which look good and keep you engaged right to the end, alittle predictable in the outcome but still quite enjoyable but the finale is slightly flat.
Some funny scenes, but this film is entirely predictable as a rom - com, even down to the chase scene at the end.
Nice ending but totally fictional and predictable.
The story is a simple tale of reclaiming your honor through revenge with some predictable twists here and there, but the story is great and regardless of bringing the city to the brink of destruction or keeping it and yourself under control, every ending is
Some good laughs, great fight scenes, a bit predictable, and I'm still not sure I liked the ending but The World's End was a good way to end the summEnd was a good way to end the summend the summer.
This is where it could have stood out, but instead ends up playing it safe and predictable on that front as well.
The consequences of her efforts are equally predictable but the certainty of a happy ending does nothing to spoil the enjoyment of getting there.
Although it has a somewhat predictable end, I don't want to spoil it here; but it's a pity that it ends up being such a traditional rom - com.
Ridley Scott had me frightened, but it lost me too many other times, especially at the predictable ending.
These matches get increasingly more and more difficult but once you have gotten through a good portion of the career mode the computer gets somewhat predictable and ends up making the career mode a bit shorter then it was meant to be.
The ending is predictable and the ideas are nothing new, but I can see Equals appealing to a younger crowd.
Yeah, it appears to be a very predictable plot, and I would bet on them ending up happily ever after together, but I'm still interested in their journey to get there.
Paranoia is one of those thrillers that has excellent presentation of high caliber actors and excellent filming, but it totally lacks any misdirection of plot and situations which makes the whole movie pretty predictable and the ending a bit anticlimactic.
«Criminal» does have some ridiculous elements and few surprises in the story department, but I have to admit I was never bored, instead going with the premise and staying in the zone through the predictable ending.
This was a promising start to a directing career but Don Jon is not without flaws and the ending is a tad predictable.
But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.
But after 90 minutes of cursing and predictable scenarios that try so hard to be outrageous, we end up with precisely the sappy ending we expect.
It had a lot of promise but ended up being predictable and boring and more of the same from Christian Bale.
A couple years ago, box office phenom Kevin Hart joined forces with Ice Cube in «Ride Along,» and we got a predictable but fun movie that ended up becoming a box office smash.
How to Lose Your Lover has all of the tools and talent on board for an amusing 90 - minute diversion, but after the first half hour has passed, it becomes less and less interesting, ultimately ditching whatever credibility it might have had for a pat and predictable (and not altogether convincing) happy ending.
Director Wes Ball delivers some great action set pieces, and the cast of young actors remains one of the series» best assets, but «The Death Cure» is far too bloated and predictable to serve as the rousing finale that everyone involved clearly intended it to be, hopefully marking the end of this lackluster subgenre for good.
Like many Stephen King novels though, The Happening is great with build - up, but the movie's ending is too arbitrary and predictable to be truly satisfying.
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