Sentence examples for anxious expectations from inspiring English sources

The stock has come under pressure this week following an analyst downgrade and a profit warning from Swedish rival LM Ericsson, but Thursday's results defied anxious expectations.

As she wakes she feels a little more herself, a little more refreshed, slightly less engulfed in the reigns of anxious expectations of what will be next.

While small children are sent each day to stressful settings where their ability to learn is arguably impaired, older students are in a rat race, cramming for high-stakes tests and striving -- sometimes desperately -- to meet the anxious expectations of parents and school officials.

For five thrilling, fleeting minutes, it's heaven on Broadway, one of those hallowed occasions in theater when anxious expectation is transformed in a heartbeat into sweet consummation.

People talk about the certainties of the 1950's, but my 1950's were spent in anxious expectation of nuclear cataclysm.

Mr. Baldick is no doubt enjoying the Edwards surge, though the look in his face is, characteristically, one of anxious expectation, as if disaster were around the corner.

Each one seems to be charged with drama of one kind or another, imbued with a mood of slightly anxious expectation, as if ready to be interrogated about its meaning, its purpose.

In an enormous square in an unnamed city (Rome? Constantinople? It doesn't matter, because it keeps happening everywhere, after all), a throng has gathered in anxious expectation of the arrival of some (also unnamed) "barbarians".

"We have wasted so long in anxious expectation of the French fleet..

However, non-GP members of the practice team who are not used to being involved in planning, assessing improvement or participating in training can be anxious about expectations to do so [ 15].

Participants, however, seem more anxious about "lowering expectations" than about achieving the first tangible results.