A July 31 runoff after the three-way primary had been anticipated, but conventional wisdom held that it would be between Mr. Wentworth and Elizabeth Ames Jones, a well-financed former railroad commissioner.
Sales of the Mini and its more powerful twin, the Mini Cooper S, reached 30,000 in the first year, about 10,000 more than the company had anticipated, defying conventional wisdom that consumers would not pay a premium price for a tiny car.
The advent of I.V.F. has brought more than new technologies and hope to that expressive impasse: It has made infertility experiential, an active state with its own narrative, its own sufferings and hence — one anticipates — its own wisdom.
Now the House of Representative has flipped to the Democrats, conventional wisdom anticipates the new leadership will launch a wave of investigations into not only the president but also the proliferating scandals around figures such as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and FEMA chief Brock Long.
Instead of the expected tenderness and touches of authorial wisdom she's anticipated, he orders her to undress, turn her face to the wall and chant 'Nigger, fuck me hard' as he takes her from behind.
The set-up and recruitment phase for WISDOM also took longer than anticipated.
Dinosaur Designs may not have anticipated a blistering hot summer, but it had the wisdom to introduce a collection called Sorbet that coincides with it.
When viewed in the light of today, the timeless wisdom of some Zen masters seems almost to have anticipated recent research in the neurosciences.
What seemed remarkable to me was that not even the wisdom of my centenarian ex-father-in-law could have anticipated the sea of change she and I had created for ourselves.
Back in 2011, Paul Rudnick anticipated what some of the octogenarian Holy See's Tweets — or "pearls of wisdom" as the president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications called them in the Times — might be.
