Sentence examples for conventional expectation from inspiring English sources

In truth, it's a thunderclap of audacities, each shattering some conventional expectation.

After digitizing and comparing the maps, Dr. Channell said, they found geographic patterns of species survival "completely contrary" to conventional expectation.

Against conventional expectation, flood peaks tend to be larger and flashier in the forest catchment, apparently the consequence of the forest ditching.

But what's clear is that when politics defies conventional expectation, and when very many best laid plans are laid to wrack and ruin, cryptocurrencies are acting as a haven and a hedge against uncertain times — alongside the traditional one: gold.

But — beyond the app's mainstay party trip of flipping conventional expectation by requiring women make the first move — it has a few thoughtful ideas which may help it grab some more attention and start to scale.

Contrary to conventional expectation, the preferred nucleation sites are not always associated with pre-existing misfit dislocations, and the preferred slip systems are not determined solely by the Schmid factor.

Much of D'Antoni's biography defies conventional expectations.

Masks allow for the subversion of conventional expectations and assumptions.

But much of Vertical Influences plays with choreography and imagery that rinses viewers of all conventional expectations.

Conventional expectations of ethnic identity are thus traded in for a kind of Up With People liberalism.

Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) similarly defies conventional expectations of what a travel book might be.