Most of these athletes had just pulled off a deeply desired but barely expected win, after countless months and years of training, and their first thought, of course, was, Holy shit, I did it.
A stunning mutiny by evangelical and conservative Republicans punctured the tyres of the supposed frontrunner Mitt Romney in last night's trio of nomination contests and instead gave a sudden and barely expected jolt of adrenalin to the staunch social conservative in the race, Rick Santorum.
He is summoned from a place that he knows like his own hand; he is packed off to a country of whose existence he was unaware and with which he had no quarrel; he is asked to fight, and possibly to die, in the defeat of an enemy whom he is barely expected to comprehend; and then, if he survives, he is sent back home, to resume his familiar ways.
His book explores the crushing weight of trying to grow up in a place so threatening that you barely expect to survive to adulthood, the confusion of becoming a black man when the templates are "Barack Obama" and "Akai Gurley," and the inhuman pressures faced by black people fighting to find their own identities in a sea of hostile stereotypes.
My second Dixie cup was even worse than the first, because I knew what to expect: I barely made it back to my jack-o'-lantern in time to throw up.
Silicon Valley was a show I expected to hate—I barely know what they're talking about and have no interest in, well, Silicon Valley but it's become one of my favorite comedies.
Silicon Valley was a show I expected to hate—I barely know what they're talking about and have no interest in, well, silicon valley but it's become one of my favourite comedies.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump's plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime minister can barely have expected it would be retweeted 40,000 times and cause a backlash at home and abroad.
When I got ready to leave after 90 minutes, I expected the bathroom to look spotless, but because I had cleaned obscure places, I barely noticed the difference.
