Sentence examples for shrinking expectations from inspiring English sources

Are theatre companies producing work like this entirely for artistic reasons – or because of shrinking expectations of attendance?

He made his name as a Midwestern bad-boy rocker, but since the 1980s he has been singing about the crushed dreams and shrinking expectations of someone who wonders what happened to the small-town America where he grew up.

As much of Continental Europe confronts shrinking expectations in the euro crisis from Athens to Lisbon and beyond, Britain faces its own bitter hangover from a credit-fueled decade of binge-spending and soaring property values that came to a shuddering halt when the financial crisis of 2008 gave the lie to Tony Blair's triumphant battle cry in 1997: "Things can only get better".

He's clearly had to shrink expectations to a size far more human than the larger-than-life scale by which he once measured his ambition.

Before long the fantasy was dimmed by shrinking economic expectations and the resentment that they provoked.

That doesn't mean she is shrinking her own expectations.

"My worry is that the overall size of the handset market may be shrinking relative to expectations," he said.

But expectations are shrinking that the efforts will produce indictments or official findings of a slowdown, according to the people briefed on the investigations.

"All too often there comes a point at which expectations shrink.

A goal of the Fourth Amendment, Justice Alito emphasized, is to ensure that new forms of technology do not constantly shrink our traditionally expectations of privacy.

But it beat expectations, helped by shrinking telecom losses and better income from its energy and port businesses.