"expectation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Wollstonecraft even pokes fun at readers who expect the book to conform to their romantic expectations and desires:
- The me's, you's and we's in their ballads attach to well-heeled Hollywood dreamers with romantic expectations loftier than Everest.
- In addition, many of the girls are able to fawn over him in a childish sense without any romantic expectations from the reader.
- I never downscaled my romantic expectations.
- I never axed my romantic expectations.
- A June-November pairing that flouts every traditional romantic expectation ends up seeming totally natural.
- Filled with "romantic expectation of persons and the nation," the work recalled "the deflating optimism of Mark Twain," she said.
- Finding the reality different than her romantic expectations, Madeleine feels very uncomfortable with his parents and so their stay with them is short.
- His head full of romantic expectations, he envisioned the swashbuckling life he would lead, the marvelous fighting techniques he would learn.
- Though fate finally does contrive to deliver Imogene into his life, the long-awaited meeting fails, quite dismally, to live up to the narrator's romantic expectations.
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