Sentence examples for disappointing surprise from inspiring English sources

For someone who took such pride in creative destruction and who esteemed perpetual chaos, Mao's birthday, arriving at a moment when the Communist leadership seems to value stability above all else, might be a disappointing surprise.

The elimination was a disappointing surprise to some members of the team, who thought they might be allowed to continue in the design study even without the architecture firm, Skidmore Owings & Merrill.

The Greste family says that while Thursday's ruling had come as a disappointing surprise, it was still a "step in the right direction" and the "next best result".

Even those people with flood policies may be in for a disappointing surprise.

She was considered "a poor responder" and has 10 eggs — a disappointing surprise.

But that thewould allocate its imprimatur and rarefied real estate to an infomercial masquerading as an Op-Ed is a lamentably disappointing surprise.

The book is divided into five themes: Orientalism and Middle Eastern studies, a prime casualty of the culture wars; Islamism, massively misrepresented by apologists; Arab politics, a generator of disappointing surprises; Israeli history, manipulated by reckless revisionists; and American Jews and Israel, the subject of irrational fantasies.

"Very disappointing, the surprise comes in services where the business surveys seem to have been a little over-optimistic.

Mr Hardwick said: "It is disappointing but no surprise that the federation has suddenly come out and criticised the IPCC.

In both of those cases, experimentation quickly helped to focus on an optimal solution, but often many disappointing, and costly, surprises appear.

Now that it's over, we're looking back at some of the most surprising and disappointing moments of the season: Surprise: The darkness of Hannah's downward spiral.