But setting the action against the Magpies' slide towards the second tier tempers the romance of the film and hardens the message that our sustaining hopes are often subject to disappointing reality checks.
Much as President Obama should be asked to grapple with the economy's disappointing recent performance (a subject for a planned column), Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan would do voters a service by explaining why a cut in tax rates would work better this time than last time.
"The way they handle the subject is very disappointing, and in a way I find it insulting," said Jacob Levy, an Israeli-American retiree who speaks Ladino, the language of Jews originating from Spain.
Similarly, the music and lyrics (by Peter Cincotti, a noted crooner and pianist who is Pia's brother) can be catchy, but the variety of tone and subject is sometimes disappointing — the first time Rob sings an ode to chlorine is enough to spark a smile.
Given his apparent passion for the period and the subject, it's disappointing that all Curtis can come up with is this film.
However, most studies of therapeutic vaccination to date in HIV infected subjects have been disappointing [6], [7], [8].
Despite this persistent effect of prior treatment, the current results are disappointing in that 34% of subjects in the former intensive treatment group and 41% of those in the former conventional treatment group developed clinical neuropathy, and 25 and 35% of the former intensive and conventional treatment groups, respectively, developed confirmed clinical neuropathy.
England's disappointing World Cup campaign will be subject to "the most comprehensive review ever undertaken," the Professional Game Board has said.
Reproducibility of linkage and association approaches was disappointing primarily due to inadequate power, subject heterogeneity (different phenotype definition), population stratification and multiple testing without correction.
"Vaginal intercourse with 'Reagan' proved uniformly disappointing, producing orgasm in 2percentt of subjects.
