Sentence examples for certain anticipation from inspiring English sources

The subject was treated gingerly: Peter Jennings spoke of "a certain anticipation" that a verdict "one way or the other" might lead to disturbances.

For the growing number of baseball executives bent toward statistical analysis, a certain anticipation builds every off-season for the release of what is known simply as Pecota, Baseball Prospectus's überforecast of every player's performance the next season.

When the batons go up, as high as 30 or 40 feet in the air, your instinct is to watch them spin, follow them up and then down and wait with a certain anticipation to see whether the twirler will actually make the impossibly graceful catch.

Frankly speaking, for anyone in a relationship, there's a certain anticipation to celebrate love's day in a certain way--a bunch of flowers, candlelight dinners in a hotspot restaurant, moonlight walks.

The library really should be the node that's bringing all these learning resources and research resources together, and that's a huge challenge because it represents a transformation both of libraries and librarians". The librarians--Ferriero, Byrd, and the rest of the staff--speak of the challenge with a certain anticipation.

E.g., in order to see an object's shape and size it is necessary to have certain anticipations concerning the way in which retinal stimulations caused by the object would vary as a function of her point of view.

Many people read it as a call to kill Assange, a founder of WikiLeaks; that isn't quite right, but "can't wait to write a defense" implies a certain eager anticipation.

Featuring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, it's a grim, stirring affair that is certain to build anticipation for the movie.

Some manufacturers have already "reformulated" certain multivitamins in anticipation of changes in the law - replacing nutrients not on the EU positive list with those that are.

As such, it was with a certain amount of anticipation that I greeted Affleck's latest, the period crime drama Live by Night, and while it's his least satisfying directorial effort to date, it still bears enough hallmarks of a talented filmmaker not to be dismissed entirely.

At this, Lost in Showbiz confesses, it felt a certain prickle of prurient anticipation.