Sentence examples for mere disappointment from inspiring English sources

A fit of pique or mere disappointment?

Of course: even the palace – expressing mere "disappointment" – can't confect too much outrage now.

Accordingly, I class my misgivings about "Salvator Mundi" as mere disappointment.

The only way to unseat Mr. Obama, he seems to have decided, is to turn mere disappointment into electoral fury.

There is a further distinction to be made, between those expectation theorists that hold that a promisee must have experienced a tangible harm as the result of a broken promise for a wrong to have been committed, and those who hold that the mere disappointment is sufficient.

Although this view has garnered positive attention (e.g. by Hieronymi 2008, McGeer 2008), some find it dissatisfying because it does not obviously explain what would justify a reaction of betrayal, rather than mere disappointment, when someone fails to honor one's trust (see Nickel 2007, 318).

Such failures are not mere disappointments, as they can create emotional wounds that impact our psychological well-being.

For Ashes losses of the last decade, the team has been the subject of mere national disappointment and exasperation.

"Last time around I was interviewed by Al Jazeera," said a young man in a bar-tabac, as if meeting a mere British journalist was a disappointment.

These aren't mere paper losses; they translate into disappointment and even hardship for millions of Americans.

It's a perfect line, delivered impeccably mere moments before Edith Laura Carmichaell), survivor of more trials, betrayals and disappointment than Jane Eyre, is revealed in all her nuptial glory.