Engineers can't be asked to make every building safe from every possible event, yet that is just what people expect, and the engineers try to meet these impossible expectations.
Like a disapproving mother, it grips its children in the vise of its impossible expectations.
I appreciate aiming high, but setting impossible expectations means setting no expectations".
Another characteristic of movements that deny a consensus involves impossible expectations.
Better merged than submerged, perhaps, drowned beneath the weight of guilt and impossible expectations.
When her men fail to live up to those impossible expectations, chaos ensues.
Setting impossible expectations is one of the five telltale techniques of climate denial.
But, out of a similar impasse, Musa created Çiya: an idyll that owes its existence to his seemingly impossible expectations.
He also faced impossible expectations among Houston fans and a challenge that seems to confront artists more often than athletes.
Sam Riley, cast as Paradise, was aware of the impossible expectations of such a project from the get-go.
