Sentence examples for face of disappointment from inspiring English sources

He did not, as some might have expected, turn truculent in the face of disappointment.

She said she remembered his effectiveness, even in the face of disappointment.

That show of determination in the face of disappointment and personal turmoil stood in sharp contrast to the clichéd characterizations of Nowitzki as a soft superstar.

Her story, set in 20th-century Philadelphia, is one of terrible loss and grief and survival, a story of endurance in the face of disappointment, heartbreak and harrowing adversity.

The child's grandiosity, Kohut believed, would diminish in time, but it would still be there — in the bank, as it were — to protect him later, in the face of disappointment and failure.

By the time the election was over, he was even more admirable than he was at the beginning, not least for a resilience and humour in the face of disappointment that neither Thatcher nor Edward Heath ever displayed.

You don't give up in the face of disappointments.

When I stepped out of my cell, my dad's face showed a devastating look of disappointment.

Whelan has heard this before his players, certainly before the crowd know what's been decided, and his face carries the pallid look of disappointment as he turns away.

After victories, Kaidanov can be spotted slowly pacing the gym with an expression of disappointment on his face.

You see this?" It was the guy they called Pillar, a senior who wore a perpetual look of disappointment on his face and was said to have once won the drinking contest at Harry's Bar in Key West by outlasting a three-hundred-pound Samoan through sixteen rounds of mojitos.