Sentence examples for real life expectations from inspiring English sources
In real life, expectations remain equally retrograde, underpinned by an assumption of women's – and only women's – obsession with matrimony: "Bag that man whatever the cost, gals!", delivered in a "just tellin' it like it is" tone.
As often happens, pop fantasy inverts real-life expectations.
Geoff Pevere of The Globe and Mail said, "While it may not conform to one's real-life expectations it certainly hews tightly to teen-flick conventions".
Never knowingly retweeted fewer than 200 or so times, the Greek duo seem to be controlling the narrative online as much as (surprisingly) in real life, where they defied expectations and stuck to their guns, allowing the European bailout to formally lapse, and defaulting on its IMF loan.
As I go on to finish it in the next two days I have resigned myself to the fact that what I expect to see will probably be the last thing to happen and while that may disappoint some, it exhilarates those of us who understand that endings in real life rarely meet our expectations.
But do they live up to these lofty expectations in real life?
Imagine that, just as in real life, the suicide bomber's expectations included achieving martyrdom and being rewarded in the hereafter for his act.
be careful when doing this, because the person may not live up to your written expectations in real life.
A drawback of this study is that the respondents reported their subjective expectations and these expectations may differ from real life choices that stakeholder groups make.
I can't take starting from scratch.' But the experience of real life contradicts the writer's imaginative expectations.
Although the styles of Linklater's low-key, handheld shamble and Baz Luhrmann's harrumphing 3D CGI The Great Gatsby could not be more different, these two releases explore a similar central theme – the question of whether your "true love" can ever live up to your own expectations, of whether real life can ever match one's boundless imagination.
