Sentence examples for upset expectations from inspiring English sources

What is the point, though, when Kerry keeps winning primary after primary after caucus after caucus?" Even though Mr. Edwards still has won but one state, the coverage last night was jolted because his more-potent-than-expected showing upset expectations.

The candidates could upset expectations.

He is a reminder of how the Tories upset expectations when they won in 1992.

Even once we are old enough to understand what clowns are, their very point is to upset expectations.

It's a tango between you and the computer, with each party alternately taking the lead through arenas that shift and upset expectations.

Once you introduce the strange and the unbeautiful to a treasures show, you create some confusion; you upset expectations, ruffle the aesthetic pleasure principle.

But what if it turns out that this is a case of an unfancied challenger upsetting expectations?

If this American piece plants the idea of marchlike movement in the ear, it upsets expectations at every turn, yet the lockstep steadiness always lurks by implication.

So the vaguely medieval new Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender will not upset any expectations.

This weekend, however, several free events presented by Scandinavian expats are set to upset those expectations.

And having upset our expectations once, Yanagihara does it again, by refusing us the consolations we have come to expect from stories that take such a dark turn.