true to form
true to type

True to form, her talk was practical and to the point.

True to form, the tail never thought to look back.

And true to form, with the lights on, the sun comes out again!

True to form, Michael takes over, and turns the event into yet another party.

If he goes true to form, he'll not come himself, though.

True to form, he made her look like a novice.

If they run true to form they'll only have to will the whole crowd to turn round and go away.

True to form, the meeting did not come up with any declaration or action plan.

True to form, the great man decided to give tonight's event a miss as well.

True to form for a typical 5-year-old, my child was not interested in the family history.

Iowa, he says, is running true to form over there.

But the king, on the other hand, behaved true to form.

It was extraordinary how the women of one nation or another ran true to form.

For the most part, the lottery stayed true to form.

Q. Is your novel true to form of the time?

True to form, he has stuck with the same shade ever since.

The rubber game of the series stayed true to form.

Now that July, true to form, has turned on the heat, many of us are no longer in the mood.

True to form, their path to greatness was not easy.

True to form, both politicians had polling data to support them.

Yet he kept the characters true to form, petty to the end.

The deputy security chief's luck was running true to form.

True to form, he rolled the dice to the end.

True to form, however, they wouldn't leave until Mark was there to take over.

It was, instead, true to form, which is higher praise.

He had, in fact grown up clean and true to type.

I do like my friends to run true to type."

He studied the four men individually and found them true to type.

True to type, the man had tried to dive for a hiding place.

On its origins the Russians, true to type, lay low and said nothing.

If the gypsy should run true to type and abandon her, she would simply not understand it.

Williams certainly could have over the years if he had remained true to type as originally cast.

People were so predictable, she thought, so true to type.

"But how can you breed true to type then?"

The fireballs, true to type, kept on in a dead straight line which would bring them across the island, and almost over the ship herself.

A clear case, true to type in every respect."

Except for that big guy, these Klingons were not running true to type.

These characters were running true to type, following the same routine they had used when I had first been captured.

Self pollinated hybrid seed will not grow true to type.

Propagation from cuttings is required to ensure new plants are true to type.

To its credit, Rod Daniel's film lets him stay true to type.

"What I like about this place is everything runs so true to type," I said.

Donald, true to type, never wavered, concentrating fiercely on the task in hand.

True to type, they took it well.

I thought it was true to type.

His estimate of the young man was confirmed, yet there was something that struck him as being not quite true to type.

She was also true to type, opening the door with a suddenness which displayed a desire to trap someone doing what they should not do.

All dog breeds are inbred; otherwise, they would never breed true to type.

Before then, Ms. Dougherty said, it meant remaining true to type.

In Pakistan, military coups are true to type.