Sentence examples for Betray expectations from inspiring English sources

But the bunny stays in the picture: "If you call something Fatal Attraction but rewrite it to the point of leaving out iconic instances, you betray expectations".               .

Personal and family greed, cronyism, thievery combined with hypocrisy are in the genes of illiberal autocracy; and in many countries betrayed expectations of a selfless strongman have led to a civic awakening.

Publishing then becomes timid, fearing to be adventurous and revolutionary lest it betray the expectations of its market.

He would also be betraying the expectations of the entire Arab world.

So of course it comes as a brutal shock when women of a certain age, no matter how youthful looking, find biology has betrayed their expectations.

He did not abide by the terms of the agreement; he betrayed the expectations of a couple of hundred politicians, peaceful men who desired only to be swept along for a while by the inertia of optimism and then to be freed promptly to go and spend the 7 August holiday with their families.

It betrayed the expectations of the people, that is, the purge of traitors.

In the messages, the two men applaud Le Pen's endorsement, saying that the party leader "has not betrayed our expectations".

" Though the perceived wisdom around the set is that Cher was moonstruck by the script, the raven-haired star will admit that she was pragmatically wary of it--partly out of some fear of betraying audience expectations of her.

The new batch of marriage books suggest that today's women are betrayed by great expectations — they expect matrimony to provide them with happiness, something that may be much harder to achieve than extending the franchise to women or outlawing marital rape.

He, too, is seeking with other farmers to develop an alternative to the "USDA Organic" seal which, he believes, betrays consumer expectation.