I returned to the Metropolitan Museum the next weekend — but without so many expectations hanging over the visit.
So it's hard to stop a certain weight of expectation hanging heavy over the duo's first joint-effort in 27 years.
With incense and expectation hanging thick in the imposing sanctuary of Smoky Mary's (as the church is affectionately known), Ms. Greenleaf welcomed the gathered throng to what she said would be an annual event.
None of these crazy expectations, no one hanging on – just the people he knew, liked and trusted, and his own music".
The tenderest passages in the concerto have a touching reticence, and there are times in the Ballades when he almost seems to be enjoying hanging back and confounding our expectations of exactly where this music's passionate eruptions happen.
Lesbians used to say that one of the many advantages of not being heterosexual was not having to worry about unplanned pregnancy, or have the expectation of motherhood hanging over our heads.
While his butterfly painting sold below estimate at £2.2m, Andreas Gursky's photograph of the New York Stock Exchange, last seen hanging in the Lehman Brothers offices, exceeded expectations to sell at £433,250, almost three times its estimate.
I had the luck to meet companionable trail mates, and my hike into the Zion Narrows, with its sheer sandstone cliffs and so-called hanging gardens, went far beyond my expectations.
But it's a constant hum of expectation, or like something hanging over you.
"There's so much pressure on you as a new mom that the last thing you need to have hanging over your head is some expectation of what your body is supposed to look like.
The hanging mobile by Calder that followed sold below expectations, for $1.48 million.
