Sentence examples for narrow expectations from inspiring English sources

Individuals at this stage often use stereotypes; they want people to conform to their narrow expectations of what people should do and think (e.g., expecting someone to speak English if they are from the United States), or they believe that their place and/or way of life is better than others.

They narrow expectations.

"The stereotype assumptions that create violence against women create very narrow expectations of what men should be like," says Rachel Krys, co-director of the End Violence Against Women coalition.

Now he's back, with "The Total Bent" (starting previews May 10, at the Public), another tale of a young black man straining for authenticity in a world ruled by narrow expectations.

Or is it because the Western literary market, the most powerful and lucrative market for novels in the world, demands Arab literature to be political, refusing to accept any other kind of stories emerging from the region, while sparing Indian novels such narrow expectations?

In Wexler's sharp script and crude dialogue, Tony and his friends — the "faces" — are held fast by unyielding views on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and homosexuality, and Tony is forced to confront the pain and destruction that result from his family's and community's narrow expectations.

The idea was to provide a stage (literal and conceptual) for African-American choreographers who were charting innovative, unexpected courses, expanding what it meant to be a black choreographer and shattering sometimes narrow-minded expectations surrounding that label.

Lack of sequence data and a reliance on techniques with a definably narrow expectation of success such as degenerate PCR have contributed to the very modest number of GPCRs thus far identified or characterized [ 4- 9] in this phylum.

The Obama era, for those who were most heavily invested in the brand of optimism he proffered in 2008, has been a period of narrowing expectations.

Not only does she have to play lion-trainer with the uncontrolled Helen, but must also manage the narrower expectations of Helen's parents, who believe little can be done for the child.

The east suffered in the Stalinist famine of the 1930s and inherited a political culture that combines narrow paternalistic expectations with profound cynicism.