Sentence examples for defy expectation from inspiring English sources

His harmonies, like those of Ives, defy expectation even as they maintain a sociable approachability.

It is tempting to say that Vince failed to defy expectation, for Pakistan have his number.

In 22, A Million, there's also a sense of Kanye's willingness to defy expectation and, if necessary, alienate his audience.

The cast, led by Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston, sticks within the realm of realistic performance even while probing and displaying monstrous inner mysteries that defy expectation and hint at uncharted (even if undesired) possibilities.

But if they can defy expectation and keep things uncharacteristically tight, they might just edge their way to a first Boxing Day win since 2008 and haul themselves off the foot of League One.

While the plot sounds like a mawkish melodrama, aping the plots of films such as Things We Lost in the Fire, Demolition sets out to defy expectation at the outset.

Defy expectations Don't do what people expect from you at a particular age.

Mr. Sorkin likes to defy expectations.

And yet somehow I always defy expectations.

Did you set out to defy expectations?

For better and worse, they have tended to defy expectations.