So its return has inevitably raised the question of whether human beings are finally approaching the limits of physical accomplishment, after decades of unfulfilled predictions about such limits.
(The word "smashing" was heard an awful lot during swimming events, partly because a French swimmer used it in an unfulfilled boast about beating the Americans in one of the relays).
Jumping from red and purple weddings to unruly adolescent dragons to an ice zombie invasion that, despite literally years of overwrought, unfulfilled exhortations about coming winter, still managed to blindside us.
In this specific context, I find only limited support for the theory: While unfulfilled expectations about material payoffs generate negative emotions in subjects (which is in line with BDS' conceptualization of frustration), these emotions do not affect subjects' behavior in the experiment.
In the time period after the mid-XXth century, the two countries display highly similar features: controlled migration through bilateral agreements, which was desirable for development objectives and unchallenging in demographic terms, unfulfilled expectations about return migration, dilemmas of politically motivated emigration, among others.
During a recent visit to Islamabad, National Security Adviser Susan Rice reminded Pakistan of its unfulfilled commitments about helping with the Afghan peace process.
Azade, a Muslim woman whose family was deported from North Ossetia, maintains the courtyard latrines, reading in their emerging odors the unfulfilled dreams and about-to-be-realized anxieties of her patrons while she rations out the toilet paper.
IN the following days, as I returned to the apartment to retrieve clothes and argue with the brokers about getting my money back, I saw other shocked tenants complaining about unfulfilled promises.
"Ivanov," about unfulfilled lives in 19th-century Russia, comes across as a 17th-century Dutch pastoral, as if painted by Vermeer.
The loveliness of Bats in the Attic's melody masks a pretty devastating lyric about unfulfilled dreams and time slipping away.
