Sentence examples for outright disappointment from inspiring English sources

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But availability can be an issue, if not an outright disappointment.

On CNN, he was being called a "no show," and in New Hampshire, there was outright disappointment.

A journalist for al-Jazeera's English-language channel, Abdullah Mussa, voiced outright disappointment at the ruling.

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The Beacon and Hambrecht deals were both outright disappointments and the marriage of J.P. Morgan and Chase never achieved what was hoped.

As Bishop Gregory and the cardinals who discussed the crisis with Vatican officials flew home to the United States, reactions from American Catholics included confusion, disappointment and outright irritation with the outcome of the Rome conference.

And a mixture of disappointment and outright anger could also tempt other countries to reassess their membership, sending the EU into a process of disintegration, which would spell further economic and political disaster.

More than 200 people packed a public hearing at Yonkers Middle/High School late Monday afternoon to voice their frustration, disappointment and outright confusion about the state of the Yonkers school budget.

That was in 1957; from that year on, the country has endured a series of disappointments and outright failures - by 1963, it was reduced to fielding a song called Maybe a Miracle Will Happen - and now it has decided that enough is enough.

LOS ANGELES — Five years after the invasion of Iraq, the toll of war-related movies that have proved disappointments or outright duds just ticked higher, as audiences spurned "Stop-Loss" over the weekend, despite its hot young cast, an MTV-branded marketing campaign and some glowing reviews.

As for Yadvinder Singh, the Glen Rock temple elder, he did not condemn the boys outright, but expressed frustration and disappointment, saying that during their deception, "we were nervous, we thought it was a real attack and there were no suspects in custody".

The more common reactions are fear, disappointment, confusion and outright anger.

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