Sentence examples for disappointments from inspiring English sources

To grow up is to confront the disappointments of language, in a way, and to suffer the divorce between what we experience and what we imagine to be real.

It means the same fights and disappointments until one of us is dead.

It will be destroyed by the inevitable disappointments of life, which overwhelm the delusion every generation has that theirs is special.

One of the big disappointments of the evening was how lacklustre the female acting awards were.

These are evenly matched teams with a rivalry born in playoff disappointments and MLS Cups.

Of Labour's many election disappointments, perhaps the sharpest is the failure of traditional canvassing to yield votes.

Certainly his later career, despite his many frustrations and disappointments, was neither lonely nor friendless.

There have been a couple of disappointments, most notably the defeat in the last 16 of the Champions League by Monaco, but he feels they are progressing.

The Gadarene rush of the Watergate-era students into media and the law was prefigured in Doonesbury and it can claim to have predicted Jimmy Carter's sad descent from piety to sanctimony, the hollowness of Reagan's feel-good nostrums, the short electoral life of George Bush's desert victories, and the indecisive disappointments of Bill Clinton.

You've just got to try and forget about the disappointments because you can never be on top every year in athletics.

These movements have had plenty of setbacks and disappointments.