Sentence examples for frustrate expectations from inspiring English sources

But Bennett himself was keen to frustrate expectations.

Mr. Raad upsets the logic of linear timelines to frustrate expectations about the nature of history.

"Never frustrate audience expectations," Morris says now, darkly.

At the heart of "Jailbait," a tongue-in-cheek title that may frustrate some expectations, is the romantic scene between Claire and Robert, each of whom, in another tidy parallel, has recently lost someone.

It's not hard to see why it didn't catch fire in the multiplexes of the midwest and beyond: it dares to frustrate our expectations by turning away from combat in its second half in favour of a ruminative approach to conflict.

Plato's extensive discussions of poetry frustrate these expectations.

Inevitably they will frustrate our expectations, the ones we are aware of and the ones outside of our awareness.

The TPP would empower not just foreign manufacturers but foreign financial firms to attack financial policies in foreign tribunals, demanding taxpayer compensation for regulations that they claim frustrate their expectations and inhibit their profits.

Parker and Bandt have frustrated the expectations of a generation of aspirational Labor careerists who have come to view the Greens as a threat to their personal ambition.

In the context of art, it is surely a good thing that we expect unity of character and uniformity of behavior since much of art depends on either reaffirming or frustrating those expectations, and thus, on their very existence.

Among the current exhibitions, "One Second One Year" (through Dec. 31) features odd devices and contraptions that self-activate — or don't — at intervals, continually creating and frustrating viewers' expectations.