"unrealized expectations" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something did not meet one's expectations or did not happen as expected. Example: "The company's financial report was disappointing, filled with unrealized expectations and missed targets."
Beacon's few misses were mostly from menu misnomers leading to unrealized expectations.
That changing view may reflect what Mr. Obama's aides have long hoped: that liberals would rally around the president as unrealized expectations bumped up against the possibility of a President Romney.
Promises also create expectations in their recipients, and the harm of unrealized expectations or hopes needs to be taken into account when we consider whether the breaking of a promise has better consequences than the keeping of a promise.
Failure to quantify the uncertainty inherent in public health interventions leads to disappointment from unrealized expectations, and failed policy.
In addition to the difference between the two sucrose concentrations, the bumblebees in our experiment could also experience unrealized reward expectations when making a non-rewarded visit at each feeder type.
And then there is the drama of the Rush family and expectations unrealized.
"There are unrealized hopes and expectations," said John Davidson, the president and chief executive at PartnerRe Asset Management, which oversees $4.5 billion.
But those parents (and there are many) who see early involvement in youth sports as the first step up a ladder to fame and fortune are dooming their children to a crushing burden of expectations, unrealized dreams and, ultimately, unhappiness.
For all the expectations unrealized by sellers in the combustible air of 2012, the trophy penthouse at 15 Central Park West that lighted the first match appears to be barely used by its owner, Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the daughter of the potash fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to one person who visited the apartment recently.
You should not settle a case on unrealized or hopeful expectations.
So when your relationship doesn't end up amazing like at the end of every movie you can join the rest of the people who check off: Expectations: unrealized.
