Sentence examples for Thwart expectations from inspiring English sources

But this also seems to be a group that likes to thwart expectations, so instead of the Messiaen it offered Hindemith's Quartet (1938), a lesser-known piece composed three years earlier.

A scene in which Schumer's character eulogizes her deeply flawed father shows the film's ability to thwart expectations, to both moving and comic effect.

Sarah Stegall of SF Scope gave the pilot a decent review, and said that if Moonlight could survive "the Friday night time slot" and the "thwarted expectations of [vampire] fans who were expecting Blade", she thought it would "rock".

Audioslave, too, thwarted expectations.

Her new work, "Detour," is about perception and thwarting expectations.

It simply betrays, as misanthropy often does, the scoffer's dashed hopes and thwarted expectations.

A sense of thwarted expectations and disillusionment was also behind the massive protests in Brazil.

Big, even architectural scale and color are part of the mix, as well as thwarted expectations.

Having thwarted expectations, Collins thwarts them again: Marian turns out to be appealing not in spite of her looks but because of them.

That improvisatory spirit synchs up well with the ethos of the Zac Brown Band itself, which has forged a career out of thwarting expectations.

If humor can be derived from thwarting expectations, then the casting of the famously liberal Alec Baldwin as a Reagan-worshiping executive was a brilliant, if predictable, masterstroke.