思(おも)う様(よう)にAs one hopes, As desired, As one thought

思(おも)うように is a common sentence pattern in Japanese that is used for illustrating when something either does or does not happen in the way that one had thought. This phrase may be interpreted as 'as one hopes', 'as desired', or 'as one thought'. 思(おも)うように is simply a combination of the う-Verb 思(おも)う and the conjunctive form of the auxiliary verb ようだ, ように.

Typical sentence structures that use this pattern will start with an (A) phrase highlighting the 'expectation', be followed by 思(おも)うように, then finished with a (B) phrase indicating the outcome. When (B) is a simple noun, 様(よう)な will be used instead.

As the (B) part of 思(おも)うように sentences will contain the information about whether the 'expectation' of (A) either was or was not met, this phrase may be used either positively or negatively to show that something did not meet, met, or even exceeded that expectation.