Sentence examples for usually disappointing from inspiring English sources

In foreign affairs Reagan often took bold action, but the results were usually disappointing.

The moment was more than usually disappointing here, with a small instrument doing service.

Live-action 3-D is usually disappointing, bullying the eye and foreshortening rather than expanding the kinetic pleasure of watching bodies move through space.

While reunion albums are usually disappointing, that one wasn't — it found the band just as consumed with the apocalypse as ever.

There are now websites devoted to eating well across the country, and while I check them obsessively in gas stations and motels, the results are usually disappointing.

Why would you begin with supermarket ground beef — whose quality is highly questionable and whose flavor is usually disappointing, if not depressing — and then cook it without much seasoning beyond a few crystals of salt?

But returns have usually been disappointing.

When we hear from them, it's usually upsetting, disappointing, but not altogether surprising.

But if the rousing what-to-do chapter is usually so disappointing, why do so many books include them?

Up to this time, receptions of Mahler's new symphonies had usually been disappointing.

The answer to that question is usually so disappointing that my colleagues who track down details on global education resource flow know what my first response to any aspect of those numbers will usually be: 'Good God (or some NSFW words) it's worse than I thought.