Sentence examples for be silly to expect from inspiring English sources

It would be silly to expect Abigail Breslin — or Kit Kittredge, the indomitable character she plays in the movie — to redress this imbalance all by herself.

"Faced with a problem, people try bribes, personal connections or force".After decades of totalitarianism and centuries of autocracy, it would be silly to expect Russia to sprout a strong civil society and independent institutions like mushrooms.

When even Bettman is willing to acknowledge that this is the best path towards contending for a Stanley Cup, it would be silly to expect teams to do anything else.

"In a democracy, it would be silly to expect it to go unexpressed".

But it would be silly to expect accountants to be society's experts on fine points of law and morality.

It'd be silly to expect otherwise of your body!

Perhaps Dylan learned that idols never live up to a fan's expectations, and so it's silly to expect otherwise.

"The biggest response is that I'm silly to expect people not to take me literally," says Fields.

Perhaps it was silly to expect Run the Jewels to release their first "proper" album on its scheduled date.

Sambrook, now director of the centre for journalism studies at Cardiff University, said Dimbleby was "silly" to expect the BBC to curtail its online activities.

In the most entertaining of the current crop of books, "The Ape in the Corner Office" (Crown $25), Richard Conniff, a longtime nature writer, argues that it is silly to expect people to be much better than chimpanzees, given that "by some estimates the difference between our two species may be a matter of fewer than 50 genes out of perhaps 25,000 shared in common".