Sentence examples for weighty expectations from inspiring English sources
The phrase "weighty expectations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe significant or heavy burdens of expectation placed on someone or something. Example: "As the new CEO, she felt the weighty expectations of the board resting heavily on her shoulders."
Orfevre, from the Sunday Racing stable, shoulders weighty expectations.
The hopes are so high that there are whispers that the Seahawks could fold under the weighty expectations.
All the weighty expectations for the home team to play in February's Super Bowl here were ushered out by the latest in lackluster performances.
Robson, however, was the woman who received a standing ovation as she left Court 1, and though it is hard to predict the impact of precocious celebrity and weighty expectations, it now seems clear that she has the potential to take at least some of the Wimbledon load off Murray.
LONDON — Barack Obama knew there were weighty expectations for his speech in Cairo on Thursday–one disseminated via live streaming video on Facebook, Twitter and Egyptian state television to make sure it reached as many people as possible.
LONDON — Barack Obama knew there were weighty expectations for his speech in Cairo on Thursday–one disseminated via live streaming video on Facebook, Twitter and Egyptian state television to make sure it reached as many of the masses as possible.
The size of the expedition was unprecedented, especially for a nation whose navy was less than half the size of Britain's, and it carried a weighty cargo: "the expectations of a young, upstart nation" that wanted to establish new commerce and forge a diplomatic presence in the Pacific, where the European heavyweights were already vying for control.Twenty years later, the Ex.Ex.
It's the story of how this youngest and most underestimated of siblings slowly, painfully, incrementally found genuine purpose of his own in shouldering the weighty burden of familial expectations and the duty of carrying on his slain brothers' work.
The weighty phrase refers to the Fed's expectation that it would eventually raise interest rates, which have been hovering near zero for five years.
Henry, Black and Quinnell have, of course, been reunited on the Lions tour Down Under, and the latter's performance for the tourists yesterday constitutes rich reward for a man who, however much he weighs, invariably shoulders the weightier burden of a fanatical country's expectations.
But he is also a teenager, burdened for now with that terribly weighty golden shirt, the squeals of disappointed expectation and a history not just of success but of freedom and creativity and talent in reserve that seems ever more distant with every passing tournament meltdown.
