Expected
Pursuing
Pursuing adjective - Following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit.
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Expected and pursuing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expected" instead an adjective "Pursuing".
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The plot is, in many ways, a very classic noir plot about a protagonist pursuing a seemingly straight-forward case (bonus points for it being a missing person case) that turns out to be more complicated and dangerous than expected.
Source: Film / Winter's Bone - The Straw Nihilist's behavior is often expected to be like that of The Hedonist or The Sociopath, since if he doesn't subscribe in morality then he has no restraint in pursuing his instinctual desires.
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