Sentence examples for sad expectations from inspiring English sources

But Toni Morrison has licked those sad expectations.

The family role is sometimes a sad reversal of expectations.

I have written about high expectations and sad disappointments.

Dickens had even planned a sadder ending for "Great Expectations," but his friend Edward Bulwer Lytton convinced him to make it happy.

"It's a sad indictment of their sexual expectations," he said.

It is sad, and unfortunate, that our expectations of corporate managers have fallen so far that 20 to 40 percent noncompliance might be viewed as a success.

His signing -- for twice as much as anyone else offered -- raised expectations, but the sad state of their pitching deflated the Rangers' realistic chances.

As a result of Tuesday's election, a sad escalation of instability, unrealistic expectations and hard edged politics is likely.

In a way, I have come to see that well of expectation as very sad somehow".

Here in the sensuously conflicted "Serenity" (music by Jeffrey Stock), the insistent stresses of Ms. Birkenhead's lines communicate the sad resignation and the exhilarating expectation of giving oneself up to forbidden love: And now without warning you appear So passionate, young and fair, Assaulting the thing I hold most dear With a toss of your sunlit hair... Serenity.

It's sad that the level of expectation is so low".