'extravagant expectations' is a correct and usable phrase in written English that is often used to describe when someone is hoping for something far beyond what is considered reasonable.
Example: His friends had extravagant expectations of what his life would be like after graduation.
Extravagant expectations do lurk in parts of the market.
And, in comparison with the 2005 results, few people had extravagant expectations.
BUT why did people have such extravagant expectations, and why did they change so abruptly?
By the summer of 1849 the revolution, which had begun a year earlier amid such extravagant expectations, was completely crushed.
Is this just another tale of extravagant expectations disappointed, the kind of story that has become all too common lately?
And, for that matter, how does Lord Coe answer those who say that the legacy cannot possibly live up to the extravagant expectations?
That Bloomberg would get its hands on a specimen of international hardware hacking may well be an extravagant expectation.
"His Dark Materials," which began as a trilogy of young-adult novels with extravagant themes but humble commercial expectations, has turned into a serious international phenomenon and bestowed on its author the sort of celebrity that prompted him to move to a house with an unlisted address.
As the $22,000 cost of Jamshid's wedding illustrates, society's expectations of families in Afghan's urban centers to throw extravagant weddings they cannot afford cause a disconnect between capacity and reality.
Expectation is high in the country, although Hollande made sure he made no extravagant promises, even if those he had already made sounded extravagant in an era of eurozone crisis and debt reduction dogma.
"Our expectations are really high each year, so it's easy to be disappointed," Mr. McKee said of the extravagant Super Bowl spots, which can cost $1 million or more to produce in addition to the air time.
