Sentence examples for terrible expectations from inspiring English sources

"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.

In each quarter we get a gross domestic product stronger than expected, followed by new expectations of terrible results for the next quarter.

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.

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.

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".

One reads him, of course, with the expectation of a story in which something terrible will occur, and that expectation is now a part of the alchemy.

This is a very modern retelling, and often subverts expectations, yet unleashes terrible power as it follows a family haunted by violence.

Confounding viewer expectation or fear, nothing terrible happens to either family.

The terrible paucity of the girl's dreams and expectations is symbolized by the faceless, hairless doll she treasures.