Sentence examples for usual expectations from inspiring English sources

My brother, who is 18 months older than me, laboured under the usual expectations of an older son, but he was never expected to grow up to be beautiful, glamorous and on TV.

But as my wife was to learn, Albany far exceeds the usual expectations.

Watching Everybody Wants Some!! means having to suspend your usual expectations of where the dramatic beats are going to come.

Patty Hewes is ostensibly the show's hero; however the brilliance of the series is that it confounds all usual expectations.

And yet, in spite of the director's observant naturalism and indifference to the usual expectations of plot, character and performance, "Le Quattro Volte" is not a documentary.

To readers prepared to suspend their usual expectations of a Trollope novel, The Fixed Period is an absorbing, thought-provoking and entertaining tale.

The usual expectation is that a payload specialist will make only one spaceflight.

Lock-freedom is a weaker property than the usual expectation that eventually all processes will complete their operations.

Roberts, the basketball union president, credited Anthony for going beyond the usual expectation that athletes should just play their sport.

It is the usual expectation that an auditor does not take tests or examinations or write papers for a course for evaluation by the instructor.

"The usual expectation is that a brief, one-time intervention is not strong enough to have a lasting influence," he said.