Anticipations

During the early history of Virginia, Yorktown was a place of much commercial importance, and there are again anticipations of a magnificent future for this dilapidated and desolated village. ❋ Unknown (1861)

Madeline had gone to bed that Sunday night after her meeting with Ted in the woods, full of the happiest kind of anticipations and shy, foolish, impossible dreams. ❋ Margaret Rebecca Piper (N/A)

Prof.A. C. Seward discuss Prichard's "anticipations" in _More Letters of C.arles Darwin_, Vol. _I. _ p. 43, and come to the conclusion that the evolutionary passages are entirely neutralised by others of an opposite trend. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)

In truth he was so afraid of assumptions and "anticipations" and prejudices -- his great bugbear was so much the "_intellectus sibi permissus_" the mind given liberty to guess and imagine and theorise, instead of, as it ought, absolutely and servilely submitting itself to the control of facts -- that he missed the true place of the rational and formative element in his account of Induction. ❋ John Morley (1852)

"I am glad you find them so," continued Tom; "but your anticipations are a little too rapid, and your imagination rather too vivid for my proceeding; however, there is no knowing what we may come to; life is a labyrinth full of turnings and windings. ❋ John Badcock (1823)

"anticipations" for the institute was the concern that the members of the institute would not exactly "gel" very well. ❋ Jpfeiffer (2010)

"anticipations," "intentions" or similar words and all statements which are not statements of historical fact. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Platonov, however, is hardly a conventionally realistic writer, since the nature of the post-Revolutionary world is that history has ended and reality has been upended, replaced by a heady brew of utopian anticipations and nightmarish premonitions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The inclosed account will show you that the advances we have made were not warranted by the sale, & that the demand has not been equal to our anticipations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"[T] he narrative is skimpy and redundant, perilously cute and clogged with anticipations of Haig's Shakespeare-inflected The Dead Fathers Club ... by no means a failure, but Aesop and Orwell did it better." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Several nonprofit leaders and experts in the space spoke to The Chronicle of Philanthropy about their anticipations of the impact of midterm elections. ❋ Erica Liepmann (2010)

We had been discussing philosophy -- or, rather, I had been feeling her out; and from a sketch of Spinoza's anticipations of the modern mind, through the speculative interpretations of the latest achievements in physics of Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir William Ramsay, I had come, as usual, to De Casseres, whom I was quoting, when Mr. Pike snarled orders to the watch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when you listen to the Eighth and the Ninth, you hear anticipations of Alban Berg and further things that you will find again in Stravinsky and in Messaien, and which you also find again in John Adams. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

These tendencies are not only expanding on technically enriched material formations, but also activating previously hidden material powers towards designs beyond our anticipations in both formal imagination and performance. ❋ Carla Leitao (2012)

We have no gorgeous procession at the grand entrance, as in the Byzantine rite; no such dramatic anticipations as their Cherubikon ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was starting on his vacation, and his head and heart were buzzing with plans and anticipations of the most adventurous vacation he had taken in ten years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can't wait... for my [tax] [refund], for this day to end, until they [get here]. The anticipation is killing me! ❋ Don Howard (2006)

I anticipate you to be here [on time]. ❋ David (2003)

"that [music] is really [anticipational] [bro]" ❋ WORDS THAT SHOULD BE REAL (2019)

Guy 1 "You there yet?" [Guy 2] "[Nah] still in the anticipation [stage]." ❋ GF (2007)

"I know I'm not a very good singer, and my massive [love handles] [detract] from my already terrible singing, but please be respectful while I attempt (insert Miley Cyrus song here)" Most crappy youtube performers take nice big [anticipation] dumps in their self-descriptions ❋ Tripleski6 (2011)

"Don't you already have half a bottle of [Jim Beam] at home?" "Yeah but this is my [ANTICIPATION BOTTLE]. I don't want to [run out]. It's only Friday!" ❋ Scott Fremont (2006)

"Dude, did you [smoke up] before i got here?" "[Nah man], it's just an [anticipation high]." ❋ Chosen Sloth (2010)

I saw the new show, "How to look good naked", and got a huge [anticipation boner], but was very disappointed when I saw no actual [nudity] and a gay prick running his mouth for [30 minutes]. ❋ Njriv (2010)

[Big sesh] tonight, [good thing] I was [anticipation drinking] last night! I wouldn't have been ready otherwise! ❋ Shoobsknight (2018)

"I don't know why I keep setting my [alarm] every morning, because I just end up [waking up] 10 minutes before it goes off". "That's an Anticipation Awakening [my good] friend". ❋ Expanding The English Language (2010)