If you think the chances of the next James Bond being female are up there with the disappointingly long odds on Captain America starting to date men, here's a polite history lesson.
While the millions affected can take solace in the beating Equifax got in the press, those demanding regulatory action might be in for a disappointingly long wait.
But Silk is owned by Dean Foods, which has donated more than a quarter million dollars to Monsanto's efforts to defeat Prop 37. The list of sell-outs who masquerade as bastions of organics is disappointingly long.
In New York, every woman I know can tell you a long (or disappointingly short) story about a guy who was frustratingly indirect, or was all tactics and no tenderness, or who simply couldn't express what he felt.
"He has been disappointingly absent all year long," Stephen McInerney, the executive director of the Project on Middle East Democracy, which works closely with Congress on issues related to foreign aid, said last year.
Such visions are at the center of concerns that the end of this recession may signal the beginning of a long period of disappointingly slow growth, or perhaps just a pause before another downturn.
Even traffic to political Web sites with brand names and long track records was disappointingly low for the Republicans' gathering, and some critics complained that the level of political discourse in online chat rooms was lower than expected, too.
The bedroom belonged to a woman, and I remember that she was rather disappointingly plain, and that she had long plain brown hair, dishwater hair, and she dressed always in baggy pajamas, sacklike, that revealed nothing.
Only the trout, too long on the grill, was disappointingly arid, though its splayed presentation had to be admired.
After trying for so long to quit, only to disappointingly flip between stopping and guiltily falling off the wagon, I've found a "healthy" medium, a half-happy place where I can smoke casually.
He wrote "Nine Dragons," a disappointingly flat and gimmicky story featuring his long-suffering Los Angeles police detective, Harry Bosch.
