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Many disappointments.There was Santa bloody Claus, wagging his finger at Willy and shaking his head with a sad, disappointed look in his eyes.

So this is Alexandria, I think, before shutting the window, feeling very much like Freud when, in his early forties, he had finally achieved his lifelong dream of visiting Athens and, standing on the Acropolis, felt strangely disappointed, calling his numbness derealization.

Our age, more jaded and skeptical in the face of successive disappointments, can pay it at least backhanded compliments, acknowledge its strengths as well as its weaknesses, and recognize that it provided the standpoint from which to make a telling critique of its secular rivals.

"There was great disappointment on board when it was learned what our destination was," he wrote while still at sea near the end of June, "because everybody realizes the strategic value of Porto Rico and in case of the very probable termination of the war we would have something to show for our troubles and expense.

I was disappointed that you could not find a poem for me.

Gerald's letters to his mother have survived, as few of his papers have, and would seem certain to throw light on his daily life, or at least to contain examples of his writing at its most relaxed and personal; these hopes are for the most part disappointed.

The bureau's assumption that such an outrage would make the victim lose his head and betray his political connections was disappointed.

The returns have been crushingly disappointing (the subject of Chapter 11). Head Start remains the right idea; whether it can be translated into a truly effective program remains uncertain.

I approached their table feeling disappointed and yet compelled to follow through, for I had nowhere else to go.

Cone's record, I have noticed, escapes the faint tedium that can attend the numbers put up by implacably triumphant pitchers, since it includes so many entertaining oddities and spectacular disappointments and crashes.

That's why it was so disappointing to see runner-up Rusty Wallace let another opportunity slip away.

Julia's departure from the cellar was clearly disappointing to her father, who says only time will tell if she will return.

My only disappointment was the exclusive nature of the place.

Nothing is more disappointing to a fright fan than a potentially decent diversion going horrible wrong... and boring.

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