Sentence examples for turns expectations from inspiring English sources

Like Mr. Dufresne he turns expectations inside out, so instead of chocolate-covered cherries he presents cherry-covered chocolates.

I was flabbergasted by the lukewarm critical reception for Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies (William Heinemann), an exploration of marriage that turns expectations upside down, all told through the snarkiest omniscient narrator since Thackeray's Vanity Fair.

We put it to the Occupiers that our strategy – together – had to be about turning expectations to invitations.

In a year that has already turned expectations upside down, it is hard to completely reassure the fretters.

That's the place where Tarantino is happiest: out at the edge, playing with genre conventions, turning expectations inside out, ginning up the violence to exploitation-movie levels.

She is destined for a more pedigreed mate and, as in all arranged weddings, the days before will be fraught with the anxiety and stomach-turning expectations usually directed at the union of British royals.

Some of the stories could be accused of exploiting stereotypical images of Nigerians, some of being a bit too explanatory – but often these stereotypes are used in a subversive and ironic way, turning expectation on its head.

Indeed, the whole game turned expectation on its head.

I don't need to detail the brilliance of these games, surely, which is why, in turn, expectation for The Last Guardian remains massive even though the last footage anyone saw of it was ages ago.

Do say He turns our expectations of art back on ourselves, leaving us with existential questions.

When a long-lost manuscript by a major composer turns up, expectations can be blown out of proportion.