Sentence examples for decent expectations from inspiring English sources

In "Sabbath's Theater," the Jewish mother of the dissolute puppeteer Mickey Sabbath advises the nihilistic satyr to kill himself; she is at once a gleeful travesty of the proverbial Jewish mother and a wry acknowledgment of the author's own failure to fulfill her dull and decent expectations.

There are a number of methods for identifying the maximum-likelihood parameters, including gradient decent and the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm.

His replacement, the civilised but untested Gareth Southgate, duly went about the time-honoured business of creating unrealistic expectations with decent results in qualifying matches against minnows.

We are not talking about a life of luxury and ease, but about modest comforts and reasonable expectations: a decent job with health benefits and vacation time, a loving family, a house of your own.

Updated at 9.59am BST 9.30am BST Our Europe editor, Ian Traynor, points out that Mario Draghi and his allies have done a decent job of guiding expectations ahead of today's crunch meeting.

The company actually had a decent quarter, beating analysts expectations with revenue rising 8% to $663 million.

Focus Features and Sierra/Affinity is looking at a decent, but slightly below expectations launch for the Charlize Theron-starrer with $18.5 million from 3,304 locations.

And now? "We expect only that these businesses have reasonable expectations of earning decent returns on the incremental sums they invest.

The Socceroos take to the field on Friday night (8am Saturday AEST) in hope more than anything else, but the hope comes with a decent foothold in reasoned expectation.

Abbott, who began his career as a writer on Coronation Street, says the soap's longevity means audiences have "a synthesised familiarity" with Northernness and "an expectation of decent quality from northern drama".

The valuation smashed our expectations of a decent loan-to-value [the ratio of money borrowed to the total value of the house], and effectively torpedoed our plans".