Finally, many of the more decadent expat habits and expectations (expensive restaurants, private generators, jet-setting to workshops) make us even more incomprehensible to impoverished locals and, more importantly, vice-versa.
The market's dramatic advance has left many stocks too expensive and investor expectations too high.
Experts soon worried that the threefold pressures of rising life expectancy, expensive new technologies and spiralling expectations might sink the NHS; patients now lust for perfection and immortality, and find exotic ways to achieve them on the internet.In this section Collateral damage Throwing in the keys Keyhole operation Sharing the wealth A hard pounding for Mr Brown?
Higuain would be Arsenal's most expensive signing but expectation came when he moved from River Plate to Madrid for €13 million when he was 19.
Won't "aging societies, expensive technologies and rising expectations about the benefits of medicine" add up to "an impossible cost situation"?
ConocoPhillips posted its highest quarterly earnings ever on Wednesday as crude prices topped out above $140 a barrel, but it still lagged analyst expectations as expensive oil sapped results at its refining business.
"Trying to meet that demand, that expectation, is expensive".
But The Golden Compass was far more expensive and laden with expectation.
Asked about paying higher fees at a more expensive university in the expectation of getting a better job afterwards, only 22% of students felt it would be worthwhile, and almost half of students surveyed disagreed entirely.
Expensive surroundings like these raise expectations for the food, and the kitchen did not disappoint.
