"Citrus County" subverts countless expectations to conform to our expectations of a very good book.
Or insisting that we bully and blackmail the new governments to conform to our expectations.
In such books, when characters fail to conform to our expectations, we don't think of them as showing some other, hitherto unsuspected side of themselves.
It is difficult for us as modern readers to appreciate the power of this literature because it does not conform to our expectations.
At this airport even the coyest art allows for a richer interpretation, except perhaps the Ontario artist Robert Coyle's flock of oversize paper airplanes, which are the only artworks here to conform to our expectations for "airport art".
In a series of wall-based works, for instance, Ms. Poundstone has printed images of floral bouquets on perforated vinyl and then sandwiched the fabric between glass, leaving many folds and creases that don't conform to our expectations of the botanical still-life.
Often, life doesn't conform to our expectations and instead throws us curves, conflicting messages that alternate between encouragement and discouragement.
Our findings that the likelihood of perfect ART knowledge improves with increasing education and the presence of family support conform with our expectations.
The difficulty often comes when low-frequency data predict genes structures that do not conform to our expectations for well-behaved genes.
These results conform to our expectations: all socio-demographic patterns are consistent with the findings in Table 2, and sibling support is, indeed, patterned by age and/or birth order.
