Expectation (n.) someone for tea is not one state but a family: checking the diary, laying the table for two, putting out cigarettes, growing impatient, with no single feature common to all.
Expectation (n.) as a tension relieved by someone's arrival would mean we never know whom we expect until he comes, yet surely we do know.
Expectation (n.) someone looks grammatically like shooting him — and since we can't shoot him if he isn't there, we wonder how we can expect what is not the case.
Expectation (n.) need not contain what it expects: waiting for a louder crash may be just an open mouth, a gripping hand, 'this is going to be terrible', and tensions that relax.
Expectation (n.) held with certainty is essential to our whole life; adopting mathematical concepts expresses it, though the two are not the same.
Expectation (n.) has its object shown in its expression, the way a pointer shows what it measures; the waiting man never wonders what he is waiting for.
Expectation (n.) and the fact that fulfils it seem to fit like a solid in its hollow; but to the extent they fit, one description holds for both.
Expectation (n.) is fulfilled not by the expected thing but by its coming about; the confusion is rooted in our saying I expect him.
Expectation (n.) grows out of a situation: the whispered fuse at ten o'clock, the jumping at every sound, the I'm expecting that makes it all intelligible.
Expectation (n.) is answered by the event that takes its place, so it must lie in the same space as what is expected.
Expectation (n.) is described internally by what is expected, not externally like hunger by the food that would satisfy it.
Expectation (n.) prepares a yardstick for the event, as guessing someone's height presumes a tape measure, not a scale.
Expectation (n.) and occurrence are like the hollow shape of a body and its solid shape.
Expectation (n.) is known as expectation at once, never confused with memory or idle image, showing it is directly connected with reality.
Expectation (n.) impels action, as one is impelled to dodge a car or jump up on sitting on a thorn.
Expectation (n.) all day is no persistent condition mixing guest and arrival like dough; it is a series of actions, thoughts and feelings.