(1) The atmosphere was jovial and full of great expectancy as the u2018fun auctionu2019 was about to begin.(2) This can only bring out a sense of positive expectancy .(3) There is always an air of excitement and expectancy as people begin to arrive long before the service starts and are often prepared to stand throughout.(4) So here I was at dawn, full of expectancy at the foot of this hulking holy mountain.(5) But let's temper expectancy with caution, knowing that a team is only as good, or indeed as bad, as its last outing.(6) Their facial expression change from expectancy to delight.(7) There was a general air of expectancy among the small gathering of watchers.(8) As the adults and expectant children gathered out-side Kavanagh's Pub on Main Street there was an air of expectancy .(9) The enigma surrounding the situation had filled the air with expectancy .(10) Even before the game there was a different feel around Dublin, a different atmosphere, a kind of expectancy .(11) The excited children were seen getting their first feel of computers with an air of high expectancy .(12) It's wonderfully expressive of a hot night and the feeling of expectancy , that someone is about to step out of the dark.(13) There was an air of expectancy as the first notes of Haydn's Farewell Symphony sounded.(14) They transform the garden from the greyness of winter to the hopeful expectancy that arrives with the spring.(15) We made it with an hour to spare, on a cloud of exhilaration, exhaustion and expectancy .(16) She couldn't seem to shake a feeling of expectancy , an anticipation for something that she couldn't name.