Sentence examples for traditional expectations from inspiring English sources

"Traditional expectations of men are clearly under assault," Margulies writes.

Since it doesn't set up traditional expectations, it won't receive traditional judgment.

Daytime dramas were transgressive, unhinged from traditional expectations, loopy in their freedoms and powerfully popular.

All my life I had hated fulfilling traditional expectations, and now I was fulfilling the largest one of all.

Veiled and unveiled women shouted, fought and slept in the streets alongside men, upending traditional expectations of their behavior.

Society adapts when lazy stereotypes are challenged; traditional expectations are jettisoned and consumer interests respond to different economic patterns.

The following year he appeared in Namastey London, a box office hit about British Asian youngsters who do not conform to their parents' more traditional expectations.

It alters the public meaning of the word by further draining it of its power to reinforce traditional expectations of behavior.

They both had strict Catholic girlhoods in upper-crust families, with traditional expectations for women, and they both took heart from maternal aunts whose feistiness defied the mold.

Still, there is something distasteful about a plot in which a woman schemes to win a man because she is after his money, no matter how this musical glosses it over or makes light of traditional expectations.

In The Only Son (1966), Munonye's first novel, a widowed mother navigates traditional expectations for Igbo women as she raises her son, who then attends a Western-oriented school and converts to Christianity.