Great Expectations did not live up to my, err, expectations.
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I asked Ms. Simpson who had great expectations for her.
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I've read "Great Expectations" aloud twice as a bedtime story.
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She has a great grass game and will have great expectations.
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Plus a sheaf of Dickens, "Little Dorrit" and "Great Expectations" especially.
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There were great expectations for the Dunnings children, Mr. Williams said.
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Families usually welcome a baby to the mix with great expectations.
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The trailer for The Great far surpasses even my great expectations.
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There have been five film adaptations of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens.
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"Black Narcissus" and "Great Expectations," the winners in 1948, show the following weekend.
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By the way, great expectations are usually a great hindrance for this very reason.
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Great Expectations – World Premiere Created by Pip Swallow and Executive Produced by Stefan Georgiou.
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In short, there are great expectations and the risk is they may be disappointed.
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They didn't have any great expectations, like we'd be selling a ton of records.
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"We have great expectations from Imran Khan," said Shah Sultan, 38, a roadside flag seller.
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Teddy came to us with great expectations, and he's worked hard to meet each one.
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In "Great Expectations," Pip searches for the father figure who provided him with his inheritance.
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I most definitely have great expectations for myself, but I didn't know I'd be here.
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Those are great expectations to set for any young person, but LaChappelle is no ordinary entrepreneur.
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Sketchbook | Tribute A nod to the classic English bildungsroman "Great Expectations," first serialized in December 1860.
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GE's great expectations: General Electric (GE) shares climbed 24.6% in premarket trading following its earnings report.
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The show's casting director saw Christie perform in "Great Expectations" and was convinced they found their Brienne.
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" Halinovcic contended that "we had great expectations, but we still need to process what we have done.
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Great expectations If you're trying to get pregnant, maybe you should work as a nurse in Arizona.
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GREAT EXPECTATIONS I often do stand-up at comedy clubs like UCB Theater in the East Village.
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Jeremy Irvine starred as Pip in a 2013 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel "Great Expectations."
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Great news: Now you can hold your place in Great Expectations with a reasonable facsimile of Squirtle's butt.
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I think David Lean's version of "Great Expectations" is the greatest film version of a truly great book.
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"Great Expectations," which I first read in high school and have read and taught many times since then.
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"We had great expectations of being in the most well-known train station in the world," Germanotta said.
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"Great Expectations" is Jessica Simpson's favorite book, but she hadn't thought that her life story shares similar themes.
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He can no more retire her than Miss Havisham, in "Great Expectations," could put away her wedding dress.
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"The atmosphere after John got out of jail was one of great expectations for the future," Leni Sinclair said.
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Acker often wrote pastiche; the first chapter of her "Great Expectations" is titled "Plagiarism" and artfully revisits Dickens's novel.
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The pomp, circumstance and great expectations that typically accompany the Yankees on opening day were all in order for Monday.
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"It's a great responsibility to be a police officer, and we have great expectations of police officers," Mr. Levin said.
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Daniel had no great expectations, and so he was relieved to find that the paintings were conventional and not embarrassing.
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Without Protestant teaching, there'd be no Charles Dickens ("Great Expectations"), John Milton ("Paradise Lost") or C.S. Lewis ("The Chronicles of Narnia").
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Great expectations Royal watchers are over the moon with the news that Prince William and Kate are expecting baby No. 3.
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GE's great expectations: After a horrendous past two years, GE (GE) shares are up a stunning 21% so far in 2019.
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Consider these lines from Great Expectations (1982): I have no idea how to begin to forgive someone much less my mother.
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Before the draft, ahead of her official entrance into the W.N.B.A. with its great expectations, Han visited the Empire State Building.
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He had signed on to "Great Expectations" because he needed money and liked the idea of working with Robert De Niro.
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The campaign promises of Mexico's president generated great expectations, but the country's hard realities may bring a reckoning sooner than later.
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Based, sometimes loosely, sometimes carelessly, sometimes pointlessly, on "Great Expectations," the Hindi movie "Fitoor" is at all times more Bollywood than Dickens.
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He has great expectations that by turning out young Hispanics, he'll be able to finish first in the delegate-rich Golden State.
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"When you go into a quarter with great expectations, they can produce a Dickensian tale of woe," the "Mad Money" host said.
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" Ms. Ardern added that she and Mr. Gayford were "not placing any great expectations on this little baby except happiness and love.
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Young and avid users will continue to drive this demand, with great expectations for viewing media in an increasingly mobile-centric environment.
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The 26-year-old Austrian will meet 22-year-old Alexander Zverev, another player saddled with great expectations from a young age.
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Pachinko is Dickensian in its structure, heavily referencing both Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities, but its scope is broader.
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So ask yourselves this: What will Democratic voters be feeling if the party fails to retake the House this fall despite great expectations?
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"Eventually all growth stocks run into the problem of great expectations, but if the story is intact, they ultimately bounce back," Cramer said.
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"These voters feel disadvantaged, they haven't seen improvements, and they probably had great expectations of Renzi," said Antonio Noto, head of pollster IPR.
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Kansas State is coming off a last-second loss to Oklahoma that could have turned around a season that began with great expectations.
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"There were great expectations, and they failed to impress," said Christian Magoon, chief executive of Amplify Exchange Traded Funds, which owns Amazon shares.
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Think of Eustacia Vye from Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native, Cecilia Tallis in Ian McEwan's Atonement, Estella in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
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"The issue of women's rights has just come up over and over again because there were such great expectations for it," he told Amanpour.
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Patriots quarterback Tom Brady warned of placing great expectations on wide receiver Josh Gordon before he has time to settle in with New England.
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I really have grown to love affordable maternity brands like Ingrid & Isabel, Great Expectations Maternity, BOOB, Tiffany Rose, Miss Madison Photo Props andPink Blush boutique.
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And even without great expectations for stock price gains, these companies pay dividends that are high enough to pay off the mortgage of most Americans.
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" Andrey Kortunov of the Russian International Affairs Council also has no great expectations: "I think that anything but a clear failure would be a success.
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Amid great expectations, McDavid and the Oilers open the season against another team with lofty ambitions when they host the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night.
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With the length and athleticism of an NBA team, No. 16 Connecticut has great expectations as it tips off the season Friday against visiting Wagner.
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At the start of "Great Expectations," Young Pip is terrified by the convict Magwitch rising up in a graveyard and threatening to eat his liver.
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Pip in "Great Expectations" remains my most favorite hero, in a book that has remained a favorite since I read it as a young child.
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She made her theater debut in 2005 in Royal Shakespeare Company's "Great Expectations," and later landed roles in British productions of "Gilgamesh" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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Charles Dickens had such great expectations of Australia that he sent several of his fictional characters—and two of his real sons—there for better lives.
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"Eventually all growth stocks run into the problem of great expectations, but if the story is intact, they ultimately bounce back," the "Mad Money " host said.
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"We shouldn't hold down great expectations for significant change," Robert Reischauer, one of two public trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, said Tuesday.
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A MUSEUM in the centre of Wisbech, a Georgian town of 11.53,000 souls in East Anglia, proudly displays the original manuscript of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations".
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He is 238, speaks the language of every place he has played and seeks one last challenge in any land that can match his great expectations.
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Or "Great Expectations," the puzzling account of an American woman who becomes a surrogate mother qua partner to a self-involved divorcée and her adolescent daughter.
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In "The Great Expectations Country," Colonel Gadd maintains that the church in the novel must be this one, since its architecture matches that described by Pip.
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Aristocrat shares have outperformed major peers like Ainsworth Game Technology and Crown Resorts in 2018 on great expectations from its foray into the mobile gaming space.
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As he moves forward, great expectations are not out of order — but it is best to remember that it has been a rough season for expectations.
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Obviously we had great expectations—despite our patriotism and political engagement telling us to do exactly the opposite, since our Mayor changed a lot of stuff.
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He is the heir to a PR push that reflects the promotion's great expectations for him and its baffling sense of what fight fans are drawn toward.
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"The bane of this market is not tariffs or interest rates or inflation; no, the real killer is great expectations," the "Mad Money" host said on Tuesday.
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Great expectations: Shares in Apple (APPL) were poised to drop sharply after the company warned that sales during the holiday quarter would fall short of analyst expectations.
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You have great expectations but you are not quite sure what you are going to be in for until you arrive at that table and you eat.
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His third film, "Great Expectations" (1998), is proof of how quickly he came to master every aspect of movie production: sets, costumes, lighting, sound, choreography, shot-planning.
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Since the Pink Drink — a mix of Strawberry Acai Refresher and coconut milk — was such a hit in 2016, I had great expectations for this improved version.
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But if the Phonocut can live up to the great expectations it's setting for itself, it could usher in a whole new era of the vinyl experience.
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They now have great expectations for his individual event, where he will face Hanyu, American quad specialist Nathan Chen, six-time European champion Javier Fernandez, among other top skaters.
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Heading into the 2019 season, Patrick Mahomes had great expectations to live up to and got right to work at proving that his breakout 2018 season was no fluke.
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"There's been a new signal from the U.S. side, so we're going with great expectations and optimism about the outcome," Kim told reporters in Beijing before boarding for Stockholm.
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"There's been a new signal from the U.S. side, so we're going with great expectations and optimism about the outcome," Kim told reporters in Beijing before boarding for Stockholm.
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As far as the author of "Great Expectations" is concerned, such a presentation — even from a former president of the United States, in biblical exegesis mode — simply won't do.
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Sometimes when investors are used to a company shooting the lights out every time it reports, it can create great expectations and set them up for disappointment down the road.
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SARA EISEN: But there's such great expectations already – I mean, this is a stock that still trades at 63 times earnings and had run up more than 50% into yesterday.
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Built in 1870, less than 10 years after the publication of "Great Expectations," to counter the threat of French invasion, it is one of the Thames's oldest remaining defensive fortifications.
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Built in 17703, less than 10 years after the publication of "Great Expectations," to counter the threat of French invasion, it is one of the Thames's oldest remaining defensive fortifications.
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Signed to a one-year, two-way contract in the offseason, the 31-year-old Cracknell has provided more than just a veteran presence on a Dallas team with great expectations.
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A year ago, the Warriors were talented upstarts, a team of long-distance cyborgs who were neither saddled with great expectations nor distracted by the spotlight of a history-making chase.
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Mr. Colbert, who previously hosted Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" in the guise of a self-infatuated conservative political commentator, came to "The Late Show" with considerable fanfare and great expectations.
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Carly Rae Jepsen is the apple of pop's eye and "Cut to the Feeling" was her only solo release of 2017, meaning it bore great expectations on its neon pink shoulders.
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Rose, the 2013 United States Open champion, mentioned the great expectations as a boulder-size impediment to victory, and he is hardly the first to venture down that booby-trapped path.
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I think that's pretty much what's going to happen, everything's going to be be packed; those doing paid events will also do well and that's about it, I have great expectations.
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His family had great expectations when he entered the University of California at Berkeley on scholarship in 1972, but he dropped out within a year, disillusioned by the impersonality of the place.
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One of those applications is print formation onto PET film or similar, so there are great expectations for its application to the new industry of wearable products that are generating attention lately.
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Wang made no mention of human rights in his comments, but said he thought Guterres would make an "outstanding" secretary general and said the world had great expectations of the United Nations.
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"Facebook has great expectations from Instagram as a source of revenue," said Eric Meyerson, a former Facebook director who worked with Mosseri on a few projects before leaving the company in 22018.
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According to the article, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has great expectations from Microsoft's engineers in this field, and he will speak about Tay today, at Microsoft's Build developer conference in San Francisco.
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The next Friday, a porcelain swan went, and then the pot lid with a scene from "Great Expectations" on it, and then an earring she'd taken out because the clasp was faulty.
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Once Democrats retook control of the House of Representatives in last year's midterm elections, great expectations were placed on their new ability to hold public hearings to probe the Trump administration's malfeasance.
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For the Mets, who have stumbled in the opening month of a season that carried great expectations, the hazy conditions could have been perceived as an ominous sign of troubles to come.
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A sense that some great expectations are being radically revised downwards; that someone has turned down a previously unquenchable money spigot; that unit economics can matter even when you're in growth mode.
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Following euphoria and great expectations about "the art of the possible," and then growing cynicism over the lack of progress, we are at another milestone with a second summit in Hanoi this week.
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But Spurs, striving for the club's first title since 1961, are running with gusto, with youth leading the charge and playing with the fearlessness of having no great expectations placed upon them until now.
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Undeterred in his love of the theater, Nate sets out to stage a musical production of "Great Expectations" in the gym, and instead of getting ostracized, he gains fans among students and administrators alike.
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Reimagining the Charles Dickens' novel from a modern, female perspective, Great Expectations is a fresh, darkly humorous journey of a woman trying to find her place in a world where she feels ill at ease.
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They poured through the turnstiles of the stadium, with light hearts and great expectations that their franchise would get past the wild-card round of the N.F.L. playoffs for the first time in a decade.
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In all, "I think there were great expectations built into what the Fed was going to deliver today that got beyond the realm of reasonable, and the Fed delivered something that was reasonable," Hogan said.
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But did her crying over his copy of Great Expectations (a novel with a classic, absolutely appropriate story of love and loss) six weeks later resonate the way her drawing a star for Brody did?
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The Assembly, which last appeared at the New Ohio Theater with "That Poor Dream," a contemporary riff on "Great Expectations," again concerns itself with inheritance, legacy and how best to make and live a life.
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" There was Lynn Manuell, an actress who, before standing to perform an excerpt from "Great Expectations," commented that "'A Christmas Carol' is the bible of Christmas, but we make sure other Dickens works get explored.
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There, he laid out his strategy for taking on the new president, who was sweeping into office on a tide of popularity, historical resonance and great expectations barely diminished by the economic free fall then underway.
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"We shouldn't hold down great expectations for significant change," Robert Reischauer, one of two public trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, said Tuesday at a panel hosted by the National Coalition on Healthcare.
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Despite lacking world class players, a sports-mad Australian public inevitably heaps great expectations on their national teams, and the strain of guiding the Socceroos in Russia proved too much for Van Marwijk's predecessor Ange Postecoglou.
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PIP or PIPS has been in The New York Times Crossword more than 170 times, but it can also be clued to The Pips singers, the character in Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations," or as a humdinger.
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This reliance on commas is apparently hallmark of older fiction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations all lean more heavily on the comma than the period to build descriptive sentences.
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However, Tockuss said great expectations arising from the nuclear deal have been dampened by difficulties in financing as Western banks remain reluctant to do business in Iran for fear of transparency issues that could lead to fines.
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After building up some great expectations with a fiery finish in 2018 and the offseason acquisition of Odell Beckham Jr., the Browns sputtered out of the gate, losing their home opener to the Titans in embarassing fashion.
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I've always been drawn to stories about orphans: Pip from "Great Expectations," by Charles Dickens; Mary Lennox from "The Secret Garden," by Frances Hodgson Burnett; and of course Harry Potter from the series by J. K. Rowling.
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"Miss Havisham's Fire," first performed by the New York City Opera in 1979 and loosely based on Dickens's "Great Expectations," mingles past and present in a drama framed as an inquest into Miss Havisham's death by fire.
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Using the hashtag #electionbooks, people partake of the tradition of employing literary puns to describe the election, with "Not-so-great Expectations," or some version of Charles Dickens's novel, still being one of the most popular choices.
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All I could see was an older woman with incredible energy, who day in and day out, dealt with the great expectations and plain curiosity of the thousands of people who came to see her with unwavering patience.
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While many of us find our great expectations of enduring love and passion reduced to bickering over the last Nespresso capsule, the Greeks recognised that compromise, realism, understanding and effort were the foundations of any long-lasting companionship.
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The game went to overtime, where Irving scored 7 of the Nets' 11 points, but his last-second shot rimmed out for a disappointing end to what was otherwise a stellar first night in a season of great expectations.
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For the last eight years, as the calendar has turned over, that appointment has carried with it the dread of inevitability, stamping an expiration date on whatever great expectations Louisiana State had built to that point in the season.
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Along the way, he will find his fate shackled — for a while, literally — to that of a slave he buys at auction, the well-spoken John Blanke (a wittily regal Chukwudi Iwuji), who has great expectations of his own.
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GC: Mm. But that's interesting, because, here at Davos, we've had CEO after CEO talking about their great expectations for 2018, and a lot of that built on the Donald Trump tax cuts stimulating the North America market growth.
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Whether you're looking for the first edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (check Whitmore Rare Books) or even original photographs by Andy Warhol (Librairie Le Feu Follet has some), you're sure to whet your literary (and artistic) appetite here.
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" The bottom line: "A stock market trading at all-time highs carries with it the burden of great expectations, but investors might be looking to the burgeoning middle class overseas to pick up the spending slack and goose the global economy.
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She notices how Quinn's things are still scattered around the room, so she begins to toss them into a trash bag when she finds his battered copy of Great Expectations, the one we've seen with him since his season 2.
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" She also spent time thinking about what she might do in the future, "so that the rest of my life wouldn't be spent like Miss Havisham from Charles Dickens's Great Expectations , rattling around my house obsessing over what might have been.
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Discussion Questions 'Great Expectations for Female Lawyers' (New York Times Op-Doc) Twelve years after being interviewed by The New York Times Magazine, five women, who all started their law careers at Debevoise & Plimpton, reflect on ambition, leadership and success.
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It's a place where angry vigilantism has replaced respect for the law, a place where great expectations have turned to sour disappointment, and the good, the bad and the appalling are all recycled into tacky merchandise available at your local store.
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You'd expect Dickens' important but endless novels to dominate the lying list, and indeed there are three in the top 214: Bleak House, David Copperfield and of course the one we all know we should have read already, Great Expectations.
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The kissing in water scene here is so totally that moment in the 90s remake of Great Expectations when Ethan Hawke is drinking at an NYC water fountain and then Gwenyth Paltrow comes and sticks her tongue in to really fuck him up.
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Leila Zerrougui, the U.N. envoy for Congo, told the council by video from Kinshasa that the elections "continue to generate great expectations, both among the Congolese people and among the international community," and will hopefully increase stability in Congo and throughout the region.
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Those five minutes, like the Senate committee hearings where Harris stared down bumbling Trump officials, captured the promise of the let-it-rip ex-prosecutor who'd launched her run five months before in front of 22,000 supporters with moving rhetoric and great expectations.
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With Vander Plaats, he had a networker who could stick around to win over the weary ("It's not that we dislike Santorum," he told one voter on the way out the door Saturday.) Great expectations Cruz, who had worked hard to tamper expectations, had inadvertently raised them.
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The low-odds lottery ticket that is the wild-card game would be a disappointing encore for a 90-72 season that took the Mets all the way to the World Series; not making the postseason at all in the face of justifiably great expectations would be devastating.
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Laing's Kathy is, like Acker, the author of the novels " Blood and Guts in High School " and " Great Expectations " ("I expect you've heard of them," Laing writes, sounding a bit clubby); her father, like Acker's, abandoned the family before she was born and her mother, like Acker's, committed suicide.
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He shares his list exclusively with T. "Great Expectations," Charles Dickens It is difficult to pick one Dickens novel, but this one has everything for me — a plot with multiple twists, unforgettable characters that are as alive today as when it was written and a deeply emotional core.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Hours after President Trump canceled a summit with its leader, Kim Jong-un, North Korea said on Friday that it was still willing to give Mr. Trump "time and opportunity" to reconsider his decision, saying that Mr. Kim had held great expectations for the meeting.
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"Fans got Charles Dickens to change the ending of 'Great Expectations,' but, in general, the paradigm has been that producers produce, fans consume, and it all flows in one direction," said Katherine Larsen, principal editor of the Journal of Fandom Studies and a professor of writing at George Washington University.
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For all these reasons, the Middle East has great expectations from the new president Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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Starting with an Instagram platform for content distribution and development, and now with the beta launch of its new app, the Los Angeles-based company is looking to be the first tap for a generation of wanderlusting twenty and thirty somethings with no ties but great expectations for travel experiences.
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Throughout his career — even in more commercial assignments like 1995's A Little Princess, 1998's Great Expectations, and 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Cuarón has seized every opportunity to experiment with novel ways of telling stories on-screen and to film striking images just for their own sake.
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Both churches have been proposed as the setting for the opening scene of "Great Expectations," when the young boy Pip, visiting the graves of his parents and his brothers — "five little stone lozenges, each about a foot and a half long" — encounters the convict Magwitch, who has escaped from a nearby prison ship.
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As a child, Dickens lived in the naval port of Chatham, on the Medway four miles to the southeast, and in later life, as a world-famous author, bought a home near Lower Higham, Gads Hill Place, where "Great Expectations" was written and from where he would take regular walks on the marshes.
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Graduates of such schools are hired by government archives, university research libraries and some big public systems with deep reserves like the New York Public Library, and by art shops that will bring your grandmother's tattered copy of "Great Expectations" back to luster at a price of $500 or more an hour.
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "The Poetics of Space" by Gaston Bachelard "Latecomers" by Anita Brookner "World War I and America" edited by A. Scott Berg "Great Expectations" by Robert Gottlieb We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Moving between Mexico and Hollywood, Cuaron's movies have spanned a range of styles and subject matter, including the sexually explicit road movie "Y Tu Mama Tambien," an adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," box office smash "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and the space thriller "Gravity," which won Oscars in 2014 for directing and sound editing.
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I still remember when I was 13 and read Dickens's "Great Expectations," Orwell's "Animal Farm," James Clavell's "Tai-Pan," Jackie Collins's "Hollywood Wives," Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster Place," John Steinbeck's "The Pearl," Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," V. S. Naipaul's "Miguel Street" and Michael Anthony's "The Year in San Fernando" within the space of six months.
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In spite of great expectations to the contrary, the Obama administration's diplomatic efforts have been dismal, from its failure to secure an effective Status of Forces agreement with the Iraqi government (depicted by the press as a campaign promise kept) to its obsequious JCPOA with Iran (depicted by the State Department as an important breakthrough), thanking Iran for taking care of the U.S. sailors they held hostage.
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Cuarón's career is diverse and celebrated; after his 1991 debut, the Mexican film Sólo con Tu Pareja, he quickly migrated to movies that proved to have broad audience and critical appeal: A Little Princess (1995), Great Expectations (1998), Y Tu Mamá También (2001), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, widely considered the best of the Harry Potter adaptations), Children of Men (2006), and Gravity (2013).
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Here are the books mentioned in this week's "What We're Reading": "Train Dreams" by Denis Johnson "I Love Dick" by Chris Kraus "Legends of the Fall" by Jim Harrison "Another Great Day at Sea" by Geoff Dyer "Great Expectations" by Robert Gottlieb "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life" by Samantha Irby We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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We follow Theo over the course of the next decade or so as he goes through his Great Expectations phase (plucked out of obscurity by a remote but perhaps benevolent older woman for whose children he seems to be fated), his Oliver Twist phase (a life of petty crime and deep homoerotic friendship), his Old Curiosity Shop phase (living with an avuncular older man in a quirky but Edenic antiques shop), always surrounded by characters who are ostensibly American but speak with unmistakably posh British cadences.
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