Sentence examples for disrupt expectations from inspiring English sources
An urge to disrupt expectations of social media, singer-songwriters or sentimentality is what drives him.
Charitably, you could call it a bid to disrupt expectations; but you might also suspect a little de haut en bas teasing.
Although they might not be attempting to disrupt expectations, both seem to have found their balance.
Audu fixed the audience with a playful stare, often disrupting expectations by hooting mournful long notes over a fast pulse, or unleashing big, foghorn phrases in arrhythmic jolts, only pulling them back into shape when the solo seemed irreparably unravelled.
In each case, they seem to be interested in disrupting expectations, messing up their narratives a little: even Anne Tyler, whose novel A Spool of Blue Thread takes place in her traditional Baltimore setting and customary family set-up, inverts a linear narrative and plays fast and loose with her central characters' fates and (big deal, this, in the modern world) likability.
Through her immersive painted scenes, Meade disrupts expectations of where and how viewers interact with art, but the artist says the juxtaposition isn't always on purpose.
For me, and for most people in the developed world, the occasional power disruption cannot disrupt the expectation that as sure as the sun rises, the lights will go on in the morning when the bedroom switch is clicked.
"It's much more interesting if you can disrupt the expectations of what the technology can do".
Richard de Meo, managing director at foreign exchange firm Foenix Partners, said the dip in growth was "not enough to disrupt market expectations for interest rate hikes in mid-2016".
It surprises the reader, using the past to disrupt our expectations, or showing how what seems to be one thing in fact may be something very different.
Ernest Mathijs says that cult films often disrupt viewer expectations, such as giving characters transgressive motivations or focusing attention on elements outside the film.
