I think he found it hard measuring up to family expectations.

Cézanne was from Provence in the south of France, and he also chafed under family expectations.

"I learned that you cannot satisfy mainstream culture and family expectations along with your own passions and ideas, if they differ," he said.

"Glass has written a generous book about family expectations - but also about happiness, luck and, as she puts it, 'the generosity of genes.' "

She the heroine entrapped by family expectations; he a faithful and stoic, if unimaginative hero.

The rest of the meal is often dictated by family expectations, which can often seem just as immutable.

Achille's shouldering of family expectations freed Gustave to become an artist.

Plato's school had an elite student body, part of which would by birth, and family expectation, end up in the seats of power.

So the reality is that, in the last seven months, the Taylors have had to make a radical reassessment of family expectations.

She thought of Brill, trapped by family expectations and upbringing.