The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
As this blog mentioned last week, when the starters of the NBA All-Star Game were announced, the results were disappointingly reasonable, or as reasonable as fan voting could possibly be.
These results are disappointingly low.
In our notion of a programmatic approach to assessment we presupposed that criteria for designing comprehensive assessment programmes and for assuring their quality would already be available in the literature, but when we searched the literature for guidelines for designing assessment programmes, the results were disappointingly scant.
The result is disappointingly televisual, the verdict wholly predictable.
Accidentally, with the aid of a magic serum, Dr. Connors renders himself part lizard, although the creepiest shot in the film is not of the beastly result — whose disappointingly blunt, unlizardish head resembles that of Ben Grimm, in "The Fantastic Four" — but of the simple shadow that he casts, like an approaching hunchback, in the tunnel of a New York sewer.
Unfortunately, I agree with SEC commissioner Elisse B. Walter that the result is "disappointingly weak".
Attempts to express Nef as a single protein product (not fused to a stabilizing protein) in transgenic plants resulted in disappointingly low yields (about 0.5% of total soluble protein).
The results would be disappointingly small.
He imaginatively recreates the textures of life in 18th-century England and shows an admirable determination to question received wisdom – which results in his disappointingly, but I think correctly, scotching the seductive notion that Barber was the solemn figure painted by Joshua Reynolds.
