Sentence examples for bruised expectations from inspiring English sources

In many ways Sydney 2014 is already a fresh charter for English cricket's mob-handed corporate supertanker, with a new managing director and new chief selector in place to go with a sense of freshly bruised expectations on the field.

The expectation was, still, of opponents whose confidence was bruised and fragile.

In the United States, Cap Gemini's image was bruised recently after several major computer installations failed to live up to expectations.

Thanks to a sluggish economy, most people will be more likely to sympathize with you and lower expectations mean any mundane job you acquire is successful and a boost to your bruised self-esteem.

In part this was to update his old classic, to make it more bruised, but also to demonstrate that, when it's time, he'll be ready to chafe against expectation.

Your arms were bruised.

It was purple, bruised.

We bruised the produce.

"We may get bruised.

It's both vicious blues-punk – a noise that's bruised and battered, murky and muscular – and a fuck-you manifesto: a subversion of stereotypes, a takedown of male hypocrisy and twisted expectations of femininity.

His face was badly bruised.