Sentence examples for unfulfilled of from inspiring English sources

He put up dummy's ace, in the faint hope, unfulfilled, of collecting a singleton king.

"Miss Havisham's Fire," the opera Dominick Argento drew from the most unfulfilled of Dickens's "Great Expectations," has been cold a long time.

There is a sense of guilt, of expectations unfulfilled, of hopes fading but still there to be grasped at, of memories tampered with.

If there was surprise in his voice, he was being coy: his book, after all, was a manifesto; Murthy and others had been urging the government to make use of him; and he had some public-policy experience, including time with an organization called the Bangalore Agenda Task Force, which had held dreams, largely unfulfilled, of turning that city into a new Singapore.

There are endless cases of unfulfilled promise, of contractual obligations assiduously disobeyed.

Both remain unmarried as this little novella explores the idea of unfulfilled potential, of opportunities lost or never offered.

Astrid's and Stuart's story is a story of unfulfilled dreams, of two people who didn't get to prove the world what they had in store.

We found a clear increase in patients' experience of unfulfilled expectations of physical function between 1 and 5 years, even though there was improvement compared to preoperative function.

Barnes, who has always been critical of the unfulfilled potential of that side, does not believe it had anything to do with lifestyle.

The unfulfilled desire of millions of infertile couples worldwide to have their own biological children results in emotional distress.

Indeed, the leveling of the social order is one of the great unfulfilled promises of the Islamic Revolution, and one that Ahmadinejad has campaigned heavily on.