Sentence examples for disappointingly familiar from inspiring English sources

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Such scenes are a disappointingly familiar sight around the country's once grand pleasure beaches.

President Lee pointedly said nothing about the Chinese proposal; analysts in Seoul described it as disappointingly familiar.

But the story remains disappointingly familiar, mired in recycled buddy movie dynamics and the usual child-developmental directives about finding yourself and learning to work well with others.

Though the milieu is, for most viewers, novel, the emotional elements of the film, to say nothing of its characters, are reassuringly if also somewhat disappointingly familiar.

None of what's here will surprise Prince's faithful fans, and some of it may even be disappointingly familiar, although it's hard to imagine being disappointed by a pop song as well constructed as "What Do U Want Me 2 Do?" In the past decade or so, Prince has lost control not of his music but of his tone.

Michael Rotatori, a carpenter from Providence who waited more than two hours to get into the Obama rally, said the speech was disappointingly familiar — "I've probably seen this speech like 10 times before on television" — but added that he was eager to vote for Mr. Obama on Tuesday.

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The official Israeli response has followed a familiar if disappointingly ritualistic pattern.

Disappointingly though, Infinity Ward's latest offering is mostly the familiar CoD routine of boots-on-the-ground combat in long corridors of choreographed action.

It was largely thanks to Scott that France took time to settle into a familiar slick passing groove in front of a disappointingly small crowd in Moncton.

This familiar pantomime of gender is somewhat deflating and makes a disappointingly conventional contrast to the inventiveness of the visuals.

So, disappointingly, no ghosts or vampires made themselves known to me in New Orleans, though – in keeping with local tradition – I became pleasantly familiar with spirits of another kind (special mention goes to the brandy milk punch at Brennan's).

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