Sentence examples for disappointing himself from inspiring English sources

After disappointing himself and his country in the past two Games, Hicham el-Guerrouj finally won the gold medal at 1,500 meters.

Something more has happened this summer than a top young pitcher with a wondrous future disappointing himself and his team.

His lead was never fewer than two strokes, and he was steady, if disappointing to himself.

From 1726 onward this opposition, composed of Tories and discontented Whigs, made great noise with its propaganda, but its parliamentary performance was generally disappointing, though Wyndham himself was a popular leader.

His failure to lead Washington into a new era of bipartisan coöperation is probably more disappointing to Obama himself than to anyone else — few people care about bipartisanship for its own sake as deeply as he did — but it is dispiriting nonetheless.

"It finished on a disappointing note for himself, getting injured in the first leg of the play-off semi-final against Reading.

Maybe, he just tells you what you want to hear because it's what he wished he did and fears disappointing you and himself.

Government spokesmen admit, that the margin of victory was disappointing, though Erdogan himself declared full victory, whereas the two main opposition parties, the Republican People Party [CHP], and the Kurdish Party[HDP], claim that large scale shenanigans enabled Erdogan to win.

But, placed front and center, as he is in this book, D'Amato himself proves disappointing.

Coates describes his anguish at disappointing his father and himself, despite his best intentions.

As a result, the record of Mr. Khatami's first term is a disappointing one, as he himself has acknowledged.