– keep undercutting expectations.
Whereas that novel evoked Conrad while undercutting expectations of exotica, his second, set in Indonesia and Malaysia in the mid-60s, is more reminiscent of Graham Greene.
"Repetition that undercuts expectation unfolds in an environment of disembodied limbs".
Mr. Bach, the immigration official, said, "Workers are supposed to make gains in tight labor markets, but what you are seeing is employers using illegal immigrants to undercut the expectations of labor".
Where Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice buried their heroes' distinct personalities beneath the rubble of burning CGI mega-cities, other superhero films have prospered by using all those screen minutes to build more detailed comic book visions and undercut audience expectations.
In this fashion, Shawky undercuts our expectations with the narration of heinous betrayals and bloody atrocities committed on all sides.
Clinicians emphasizing the functional somatic syndrome model will try to avoid chronic whiplash by discouraging the patient from assuming the sick-role [ 26, 27], and by undercutting alarming expectations about clinical course [ 26, 73].
Henry is back, on a wave of emotion, undercut by painstaking expectation management, having seen his loan move from the New York Red Bulls signed off just before midday on Friday, making him eligible to play in Monday night's FA Cup tie at home to Leeds United.
Sometimes Echenoz undercuts these movie-bred expectations, but they're never far from his mind, creating a wry surface for his exploration of love, loyalty and betrayal.
It's an amusing button on the subversive Shane Black film, another moment of levity that undercuts traditional superhero movie expectations.
