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"profoundly inevitable."

An interesting and ambiguous phrase. First, while "predictable" certainly has negative connotations, "inevitable" suggests that the music is as it must be--no better choices exist. "profoundly" tells me that the second option is intended.

“And shall you not relent?”
“Shall a geometrical proposition relent?  I am not so superficial.”
“Doesn’t geometry treat of surfaces?” asked Mrs. Almond, who, as we know, was clever, smiling.
“Yes; but it treats of them profoundly. "

Henry James--Washington Square