Sentence examples for inverting expectations from inspiring English sources

Casey is good at inverting expectations, especially in the mother-daughter bond at the heart of the story.

Inverting expectations, Byron allows the coarse and homely pirates to feast and quaff, while their aristocratic leader subsists on 'all a hermit's board would scarce deny' (I, 74).

In her early work, Estep was a downtown New York girl, tough talking, sassy and drawlingly sardonic while being sexually explicit and joking, inverting expectations.

There are other powerful, potentially unavoidable new imperatives that could invert expectations of productivity.

Inverting classic expectations of productivity in which fewer people produce more stuff for consumption, the New Materialism points to an economy in which, in effect, more people produce less stuff for consumption.

Walker masterfully addresses that trend, inverting audience expectations with devastating skill.

The series, which has its finale airing Tuesday night, crafts dramatic tension by inverting audience expectations.

In his courageous and fascinating pairing of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, director Barrie Kosky inverts our expectations, doesn't force parallels and treats the power dynamics of the central couples with an unusually even hand so that we're left pondering the murky nature of victimhood.

In his courageous and fascinating pairing of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, director Barrie Kosky inverts our expectations, doesn't force parallels and treats the power dynamics of the central couples with an unusually even hand so that we're left pondering the murky nature of victimhood.

Meanwhile, she made movies that inverted gender expectations and dared to challenge the status quo between men and women (sort of like Ellen Page in her screen roles).

She casually inverted pop-performance expectations.