Sentence examples for diminishing expectations from inspiring English sources

Starting last January, when "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" became a regular part of ABC's schedule, network television, caught in a long downward spiral of diminishing expectations based on diminished returns, found itself lifted by a whiff of revival.

The factor is diminishing expectations.

Perhaps the visitors were bluffing, with the view of diminishing expectations ahead of the play-offs.

Wide-eyed and eerie, Mr. Winkle epitomizes our diminishing expectations for fame.

Since then, they argue, the world has been one of diminishing expectations, of uncertainty and doubt.

Melding the sinewy stoicism of folk tradition with Mr. Rouse's structural tweaks, they pondered disappointments and diminishing expectations, personal and political, reaching pensive conclusions in succinct choruses: "The world got away with me," concluded the last tune.

I have written to you on several occasions without a reply and have pursued the appeal process to which you submitted me in the diminishing expectation of fairness.

Yet we are home to a middle class confronting the erosion of several decades of financial and social gains and a deeply entrenched population of impoverished Americans cursed with diminished opportunities, diminished ways of escape, and diminished expectations.

Gateway Inc., one of the manufacturers hit hardest by the recent downturn in consumer computer sales, told industry analysts yesterday that its already diminished expectations were still much too optimistic and that the company did not expect to be profitable or expand sales until the second half of this year.

They're also about fear and diminished expectations.

Isn't that an example of gravely diminished expectations?