"It looks pretty good, given the terrible expectations and the end-of-the-world-type verbiage that we had been hearing," Hans C. Mosesmann, an analyst with Prudential Securities, said of Intel's earnings report.
Ronan has given us a terrible freedom from expectations, a magical world where there are no goals, no prizes to win, no outcomes to monitor, discuss, compare.
Tech companies are terrible at tempering expectations.
Blodget argues that a terrible earnings outlook for Apple will be good news for Apple investors because it will be easier for Apple to beat diminished expectations.
Babe says of her mother what might be said about most of the book's characters: "She lived with the daily assumption that something terrible would happen, an expectation so fierce it bordered on hope".
In each quarter we get a gross domestic product stronger than expected, followed by new expectations of terrible results for the next quarter.
No one who watched, over and over, as TV replayed the pictures of the explosion of the Challenger in 1986 can forget that terrible picture: The glowing expectations of mothers and fathers and wives and children, torn away in a second and replaced by a kind of gaping numbness.
Confounding viewer expectation or fear, nothing terrible happens to either family.
The most common source of expectations is fear of failure in which you absolutely must meet those expectations or else something terrible will happen.
He concluded that the difference had to do with expectations; a soldier who survived a terrible attack often had a positive outlook simply because he was still alive.
"It's a terrible intrusion — an insult to the expectations of the neighborhood," said Roberta Brandes Gratz, a writer and member of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission whose apartment is directly above the proposed cafe.
