Sentence examples for old expectations from inspiring English sources

We're not bound by old expectations of when to open or not to open.

There were parts of his speech that raised the old expectations.

Living "in exile" is how one of the weekenders puts it, exile from our old expectations about life.

By the time Murphy stepped into the box, though, everyone had resigned themselves to the familiar old expectations.

More sensible men's advocates, meanwhile, maintain that men are still straitjacketed by old expectations, and given no room to express vulnerability, doubt, or any emotion besides anger.

But the unfairness of the old expectations does not justify a new double standard, which pretends that only men are responsible for virtual sex that may prevent or wreck real-life relationships.

Even with the early signs of recovery, the old expectation of full corporate underwriting of a move is gone.

A second new feature, anticipation of the Resurrection, was coupled with this transcending of the old expectation.

This was a time in which radically new electromagnetic tools — gramophone, telephone, radio, radar, cinema, television — shattered our centuries-old expectations about how information and image are located and transported across space.

Those older expectations of "character" are a guide to Monica Ali's method with Chanu.

But with more travellers taking to the skies than ever before, airport hotels have started wooing fliers by throwing decades-old expectations out the window.