Sentence examples for ability to disappoint from inspiring English sources
Ten years ago, when The Economist lamented Japan's amazing ability to disappoint, one shrewd parliamentarian wrote in to challenge that.
IN SEPTEMBER 1998 the cover of The Economist carried the headline "Japan's amazing ability to disappoint", commenting on the government's bungling of yet another bank-rescue plan.
Manet's genius and the true source of the bourgeois outrage was his ability to "disappoint expectation": "instead of the theatrical forms expected of him, Manet offered up the starkness of 'what we see'.
Peter von Siemens, a member of the founding family who sits on the supervisory board, is said to have remarked that the prospect of returns like Siemens's would not entice a greengrocer to open a shop.The company has not lost the ability to disappoint.
A headline in The Economist at the time tried to sum up the situation more pithily: "Japan's amazing ability to disappoint" (see article).Until recently, that dreadful time could be regarded as an awful nightmare from which the country had woken up, for Japan seemed to be starting to live up to expectations.
With this comes the ability to be disappointed, frustrated, nervous, confused, or hurt.
Reboots live to disappoint.
Sorry to disappoint everyone.
He has yet to disappoint.
