If you listen to the whole speech, it is what he says at the end that seems so apt for these years of diminished expectations.
The director, David Herskovits, stymies any expectations of stodgy melodrama, which is apt because Peretz Hirschbein's tempestuous drama has enough kinks, forbidden romance and hints of the supernatural to fill an HBO time slot.
Whoever is impaired in carrying out activities is also less apt to engage in social participation, which in turn results in less satisfaction (unless the patient's expectations and demands have been lowered while coping with his or her disease).
In reality, it is not the affluent who are apt to be disappointed by a de Blasio administration, but those who voted for him with the expectation that the mayor could meaningfully change their lives.
Members suggested that McConnell was trying to temper expectations on the replacement bill with the realities of the Senate filibuster, a practice McConnell doesn't seem apt to blow up, one member said.
When that expectation gets thwarted, when mothers aren't cared for by the child they prefer, they are more apt to suffer depression, the researchers had earlier found.
