Sentence examples for thwarted expectations from inspiring English sources

Sarah Stegall of SF Scope gave the pilot a decent review, and said that if Moonlight could survive "the Friday night time slot" and the "thwarted expectations of [vampire] fans who were expecting Blade", she thought it would "rock".

Audioslave, too, thwarted expectations.

It simply betrays, as misanthropy often does, the scoffer's dashed hopes and thwarted expectations.

A sense of thwarted expectations and disillusionment was also behind the massive protests in Brazil.

Big, even architectural scale and color are part of the mix, as well as thwarted expectations.

Do these people know what they're doing – they are inscribing Chinua's epitaph in the negative mode of thwarted expectations.

Indeed, the best way to appreciate this fascinating but uneven film may be to resist it, to watch it unfold in the persistent, persistently thwarted expectation that it will erupt into the hip-hop Mafia shoot-'em-up it stubbornly refuses to be.

That improvisatory spirit synchs up well with the ethos of the Zac Brown Band itself, which has forged a career out of thwarting expectations.

If humor can be derived from thwarting expectations, then the casting of the famously liberal Alec Baldwin as a Reagan-worshiping executive was a brilliant, if predictable, masterstroke.

But this also seems to be a group that likes to thwart expectations, so instead of the Messiaen it offered Hindemith's Quartet (1938), a lesser-known piece composed three years earlier.

In the play, Gil thwarts expectations and orders a cremation.