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This Senate testimony by intelligence community heads was billed as the undercard to James Comey's appearance on Capitol Hill on Thursday, but it turned out to be a big letdown.

Instead, what could have been an exhilarating exploration turned out to be a dispiriting letdown.

We're already well aware that Ridley Scott's once-anticipated thriller turned out to be a big ol' letdown, garnering a dismal 19percentt from top critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

But in the event, Monro's French Adonis turned out to be a bit of a letdown.

In what didn't turn out to be a big night for "Downton Abbey," it was a letdown that Maggie Smith wasn't there to pick up her award, because how awesome would her speech have been?

But this turns out to be buildup, not letdown.

Part of the wonder and some of the letdown of "Mud" is that a lot of what Mud says turns out to be true.

The world championships in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 and the 2006 Asian Games turned out to be letdowns as well.

McSweeney's, though it survived, turned out to be, in Greif's opinion, a bit of a letdown, because of its mannered quirkiness and what he calls its "orientation to childhood".

When the actual thief was caught, his identity turned out to be, to those who thought a swashbuckling international criminal might be involved, a letdown.

Game Seven was perhaps bound to be a letdown, rain-out or not.