But prosecutors say whistle-blowers are by nature complainers and frequently experience a letdown if the results of their work do not meet their grandiose expectations.

While Cashman has supported this team with grandiose expectations since spring training, he has been forced to listen to Steinbrenner's daily doubts.

To the grandiose expectations for a lottery pick.

That means he's setting his sights high, or that he's got unusually grandiose expectations for himself.

He had to recognize the volatility of the situation, given the personnel limitations and the paying public's grandiose expectations.

But there are also the grandiose expectations that come with being the most popular position player in Boston.

Meanwhile, we in New York have our own grandiose expectations.

A person with grandiose expectations about the results of surgery is generally considered a poor surgical risk.

Mrs. Smith said the organization has no grandiose expectations that a handicraft industry will bring prosperity to impoverished villagers.

The hardest lesson of all for a powerful democratic people to learn, however, is not whom to back but how to manage their own grandiose expectations.