Sentence examples for disrupting expectations from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Since then, she has also earned a reputation for disrupting the expectations that surround women in pop music.

The bodies turn, twist, bob, and drift along a serpentine line, disrupting the expectations of the beholder and keeping the travelling gaze in thrall.

Arguably it is the way the film subverts and disrupts expectations that explains why more than 4.5 million people have watched it since it was released earlier this month.

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.

Some of the difficulties critics had with the film on its release may have been owing to disrupted viewer expectations.