"Any jokes for us today?" Expectant eyes turn toward him, seeking entertainment from a well-established jokester.
When I turn to the expectant technicians, I decide to look on the light side, to pass it off as the eccentric whim of a great designer.
But as the world's attention turned to Stratford, expectant to see how Danny Boyle would launch the London Olympics, the director chose to hush the clamorous expectancy with a moment of genuinely memorable stillness.
"What a wonderful thing," said Vivian finally, in a sort of full-throated way, turning to David, expectant, her eyes soft and big.
At the end an expectant Gere turned round to him and said: "What do you think, Mike?" Figgis said it was awful, and Gere was devastated.
Yes the new local and global entrepreneurs, but also the dispossessed of Egypt, Greece, Spain and the disillusioned of countries who have yet to hit the barriers -- Russell Brand's disaffected UK majority -- now beginning to turn imaginative, collaborative and expectant.
What if it turned out, though, that expectant fathers molded babies, too, and not just by way of genes?
I thought of Polonius when Jeremy Corbyn turned up last summer, as expectant as a June bride without a groom, in contention for the vacant Labour Party leadership, a job which obviously no one else really wanted.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard give beautifully nuanced performances as Marines who never get to see action, and the emptiness of their expectant lives turns the film into the exploration of an idea.
In the ambient light of the coiled trees, her face was expectant, chin turned up, eyes squeezed open.
