Sentence examples for commonplace expectations from inspiring English sources

His pleasure was the systematic defeat of commonplace expectations, whether it was in the ironic ending of The Killing or in the refusal to reprieve the audience, or the cowardly officer in charge of the firing squad, from witnessing the shooting of the three "crucified" soldiers in Paths of Glory.

What makes Machiavelli a troubling yet stimulating thinker is that, in his attempt to draw different conclusions from the commonplace expectations of his audience, he still incorporated important features of precisely the conventions he was challenging.

The real-time nature of content has become a commonplace expectation among most influencers and their followers.

Paying particular attention to template design and linguistic and visual commonplaces that inform genre expectations for gendered identity performances in this space, this rhetorical analysis focuses on the author's online dating profile.

No one can pretend that a grand destiny must lie before them on Sunday and it could be that the prospect of a commonplace struggle will relieve them of undue expectations.

"The issue is growing in importance as communication online by email and social media has become commonplace, even as the norms and expectations for such communication remain unsettled," they wrote.

The claims and counter-claims in recent weeks have given the French the dizzying sensation of being transported back to an era when such misdeeds were commonplace, before rules were tightened and expectations of probity raised.

It is a broken expectation that transforms this commonplace scene into something awesome (and awful).

3 4 Before 1960, administration of inert substances to promote placebo effects or to satisfy patients' expectations of receiving a prescribed treatment was commonplace in medical practice.

Yet, after Sunday's finale, there it was: The now-commonplace complaints that a finale didn't live up to expectations.

Mr. Knott said the price reflected the expectation that values would decline further as distress sales became commonplace.