What if we saw what life was like at Grey Gardens before it became this hothouse terrarium?" The virtue of this plan, he explained, was that on the one hand it would "confound the expectations of everyone who came in expecting to see the two old broads," and on the other, it would help situate an audience who had no idea who the Beales were or where they came from.
Fulfilling the expectations of everyone who predicted that her European tour would be short-lived, Amy Winehouse's European tour was short-lived.
But Sunday, he stayed on his feet, and he still created something beyond the expectations of everyone, friend or foe, inside Anfield stadium in Liverpool.
It has become the mainstream and is embedded in every form of online communication but also in the sensibilities and expectations of everyone online.
Leslie Jamison's collection The Empathy Exams outsold the expectations of everyone at her small publisher, while new voices and veterans, from Roxane Gay to Lynne Tillman to Lena Dunham, have had bestsellers in this once-maligned genre.
And while his own writing output until now consisted of a few assignments for Slate, which he never filed, his first book — a sprawling comic memoir of a life spent battling countless neuroses and defying expectations of everyone close to him — earned him a $750,000 advance.
That may or may not be ideal, but the expectations of everyone else on the road are based on the law, not on Mr. Cohen's reasoning, and the place to have that argument is in the legislature, not the intersection.
Some of it was difficult to decipher, as the sound effect of a dog's tongue every time I opened my mouth muffled some of the words but, from what I remember, they wanted to know if being funny online was part of a comedian's job, and if there's a pressure to live up to the expectations of everyone with an internet connection.
