Sentences with phrase «often predictable ways»

Software projects that fail, conversely, tend to careen off the road in similar and often predictable ways.

Not exact matches

The idea is that we, as humans, act in predictable ways; a reason why history repeats itself so often.

Furthermore, NGO - sponsored blog tours often produce posts that, as Karimentioned in a comment last week, can be painfully predictable — you know, «the way that the bloggers are overwhelmed and then uplifted and then come home and, you know, can't go to Wal - Mart without crying,» that sort of thing.

But we might want to at least tell stories and show models of love that don't look so predictable, that speak more to the way we actually live and love instead of some idealized and often unsatisfying or unsustainable version of it, stories that recognize that loving relationships are as varied and beautifully complicated as we humans are.

For instance, studies of Caribbean lizards by Jonathan Losos» group show that animals often evolve predictable forms and ways of life when they colonize similar ecosystems.

I am particularly predictable about this kind of olive shade, grounded and earthy, and just inexplicably compelling, the way one's favorite things often are.

We found that people are in many ways predictable in their dating habits but they also often bend their own rules.

Those groups are typically written about in superficial, knee - jerk ways (their stories often shoe - horned into predictable political narratives), so there's an opening to write about them with nuance and complexity.

What often gets lost in research on effective schools is how schools become better — the predictable steps they take on the way to greatness.

As the fastest and simplest solutions, especially design related ones, are often predictable and offer little in the way of exclusive desirability, VOS takes a more considered and holistic approach that also addresses the varied tastes of a global audience.

At first, it's simple enough, as enemies hardly attack in the first rounds and their flying patterns are easily predictable, but as the rounds pick up the action gets more intense, as different types of bugs provide different ways to kill you and players need to recognize them and react accordingly to survive, while also shooting at them as often as possible to keep them from taking over the screen and trapping you.

Often, attorneys use the lyrics of popular music in fairly predictable ways in their writing, sometimes with adverse impact on the persuasiveness of the argument they are advancing.

Although painful at times, the reward of couples therapy can far outweigh the discomfort when often years of hurtful experiences get supplanted by positive responses in a marriage or love relationship — changes that help both partners feel the other is predictable in a positive way.