In much of the commentary, I've encountered the erroneous assumption that the book is written for corporate power players, which it isn't, and an odd expectation it should speak for all women, which it shouldn't.
I would be a bit more excited about that, but it largely comes off an odd jump in expectations for manufacturing investment from that made three months ago: The expectation for manufacturing investment is up 11% on where it was three months ago – the biggest such jump since 2011.
Contrary to expectation, odd lot investors are paying higher prices than round lot investors.
Niveen's lawyer acknowledged that she had come to the attention of social services for "very legitimate reasons," but since then it had become "a case about clashing personalities, about odd clients, about different expectations, about different views of reality".
It's also due to the mixture of genres: the movie isn't a pure spoof, but it also delivers the violent action of the genre, leaving viewers in an odd sense of suspended expectations.
In an odd game of managing expectations, Beijing's allies here are now predicting that democrats will capture a majority of the legislature for the first time in the September election, while the democrats are predicting that they will not.
Many recount the odd juxtaposition of academic expectations with the reality of a newborn who doesn't sleep through the night, or the rare occasion when they had to bring their infant to class.
The experience of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova is an example of Azerbaijan's odd approach to meeting these expectations.
Exit polls have become such a sophisticated craft, and the commentators so confident in the projections, that election night coverage now has an odd seamlessness, a sense of expectations fulfilled before the viewer digests the very first statistics.
His odd campaign set awfully low expectations, but, paradoxically, high ones as well.
