Sentence examples for expecting something so from inspiring English sources

I wasn't expecting something so operatic … More seriously, it was very evocative and there were some fine insights … into colonialism and into the hierarchy of oppression (among rulers and subjects; within families; between women).

Twangy numbers like Country Pie, Peggy Day, Nashville Skyline Rag and the more sober I Threw It All Away and Lay Lady Lay came as a complete surprise to Dylan's hardcore fans, who had not been expecting something so homespun and earnest from a man famous for clever lyrics such as "The pumps don't work 'cause the vandals took the handles".

"No one was expecting something so huge, so I was assuming that it was an injection".

I love the Lugosi film, but it's a real creaker, so Welles's adaptation already had a built-in shock factor audiences weren't expecting something so raw to come out of their radios.

God would never expect something so absurd as that".

I never expected something so cool from The Times Magazine.

None of the judges expected something so understated from a contestant for whom more has always been more, a change of pace that Joshua himself pointed out.

Say 72 hours to me and I will expect something so tender it will lose its integrity quicker than a new MP.

It is unnerving if not a little fascinating to see the calorie breakdown under each course, and the 45 calories contained in my salad build me up to expect something so pathetic that I'd need a magnifying glass to help me eat it.

From the AIDS-ridden shanties on Lake Victoria's fertile shore to crumbling tourist resorts on the paradisal Indian Ocean coast, and especially in Mr Mbai's Nairobi home, where 21-year-old Catherine was grieving, they had expected something so much better.

Then people started stopping by, expecting something, and so spontaneously we combusted.