Sentence examples for silly to expect from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Dylan learned that idols never live up to a fan's expectations, and so it's silly to expect otherwise.

"The biggest response is that I'm silly to expect people not to take me literally," says Fields.

Perhaps it was silly to expect Run the Jewels to release their first "proper" album on its scheduled date.

Then she cackles: "Well, considering I'm soon 80, it's a bit silly to expect to get by with nothing".

It would be silly to expect Abigail Breslin — or Kit Kittredge, the indomitable character she plays in the movie — to redress this imbalance all by herself.

Sambrook, now director of the centre for journalism studies at Cardiff University, said Dimbleby was "silly" to expect the BBC to curtail its online activities.

Silly, then, to expect Uruguay-Mexico to end in anything except a mutually beneficial draw.

Silly us to expect that any candidate will call anything that Trump says or does "a bridge too far," when it is a bridge they have already crossed themselves.

"How silly," it seems to expect punters to say, "that they should have objected to this charming man's charming French accent"—ignoring the defiantly monoglot, subtitle-free nature of American film-going.

It was probably silly of me to expect a firm adherence to Old World styles among freewheeling American brewers, not when experience has demonstrated that many Americans are more interested in forging new styles.

In fact, a few days earlier, Jean-David Levitte, foreign-affairs counselor to France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, told me how silly it was to expect Sarkozy to go to Pakistan for Bhutto's funeral, as some critics were demanding.