Sentence examples for confronting expectations from inspiring English sources

"Egg," a solo for the choreographer, draws on her first year of motherhood, confronting expectations of perfection by setting her characteristically headlong dancing amid twelve dozen raw eggs.

Even some Fall loyalists seem to feel this was a nadir It doesn't seem like an attempt to confront expectations any more.

Of course, these installations are intended to be provocative, forcing us to confront expectations of what an artwork is or looks like.

After several decades of rising expectations, the present-day newcomers to adult life confront expectations falling – and much too steeply and abruptly for any hope of a gentle and safe descent.

It was written, Brooker claims, to confront expectations: for those who said Black Mirror's new Netflix home would make it too American, he gave it the most Californian California setting; for those who thought it "was written by the fucking Unabomber", he filled the episode with hope.

The struggle of a young woman facing the demons of perfection, of confronting the expectations of her family, peers and mentors.

Confronting our expectations of student learning (Table 4) with student responses challenged us to think and converse in a reflective manner.

In a society of conflicting expectations, where hyper-sexualized media images confront intensifying expectations of women as sober, competent and responsible breadwinners, it's quite possible that for some of his female sympathizers, Jahar offers a magnet for their own feelings of frustration and powerlessness in a messy world.

Dr. Hagen had recently had to confront stifled expectations.

The talking built to a hilarious dance sequence in which Mr. Asentic confronted superficial expectations about Eastern European dance.

As much of Continental Europe confronts shrinking expectations in the euro crisis from Athens to Lisbon and beyond, Britain faces its own bitter hangover from a credit-fueled decade of binge-spending and soaring property values that came to a shuddering halt when the financial crisis of 2008 gave the lie to Tony Blair's triumphant battle cry in 1997: "Things can only get better".