Sentence examples for foolish expectation from inspiring English sources

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In my mind, the girl must be accustomed to dealing with creeps like Jeb, and she knows that the way to manage their foolish expectation that every woman is "up for grabs" is to cut the shit, step out of the game, and show them that she is not just a projection of their fantasies.

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Their simmering conflict springs from Rose's belief that her husband's financial expectations are foolish.

Why, then, do Turner and Hitchens rely on the foolish interpretations and sexual expectations of Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and other "intellectuals" to misrepresent Reich's actual uses for the orgone accumulator?

It barely matters that Clegg's language caricatured rival parties in the corrosive language of the old politics he so deplores and raised expectations in similarly foolish, familiar fashion.

They had lost for the second time in five days and when the shortcomings are this obvious, with the World Cup draw just round the corner, the only possible consolation can be that nobody surely will be foolish enough to heap unrealistic expectations on this team.

You will look foolish each time he does not perform to expectations, though it's true that the punditry's willingness to keep lowering those expectations (while declaring his inevitability!) has been helpful in that regard.

Contrary to the foolish certitude of Al Gore's lawyers, and despite widespread expectation in legalistic minds, the Supreme Court of the United States did not run away from its ultimate responsibility to the republic.

My decision occasionally seemed foolish, but I had to step away from familial expectations and find myself.

There is no evidence that internet pornography is driving a wave of teenage violence and abuse, but it would be foolish to imagine that it is not influencing sexual norms and expectations.

Pip's sister's husband, Joe Gargery, in Great Expectations, is "a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easygoing, foolish, dear fellow – a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness".

Foolish, foolish idea.

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