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Art world expectations and curatorial hierarchies be damned!
In today's world, expectations are increased and, somehow, resources must be made more available.
For a field that included 17 of the top 20 players in the world, expectations were high for a full-out assault of the stars.
Although her last film, the $75 million action comedy "Killers," was a dud, selling only $92 million around the world, expectations are high for "Life as We Know It," which cost only about $38 million to make.
After all, this is the country that boosted world expectations for social and environmental responsibility 20 years ago at the ECO-92 UN Conference and managed to help the Rio+20 conference avoid complete failure.
In the working world, expectations for "always on" connectivity can be even more intense.
A great disconnect between the real economy and the speculative financial world has existed since the late 1990s, fed by mountains of liquidity sloshing around the world, expectations of and demands for oversized investment returns, and low volatility, all of which have encouraged risk taking.
America, and perhaps existence itself is a cascade of empty promises and advertisements — that is to say, fantasy worlds, expectations that will never be realized "IRL," but perhaps consumed briefly in small snatches of commodified pleasure.
Our study contributes new understanding of the ambiguities of the real-world expectations of primary care practitioners when presented with an opportunity to adopt a technology into practice.
All grace, no gravity, buoyed on music that reflected a world of expectation and yet marked its end.
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