Sentence examples similar to we were displeased from inspiring English sources

In an open letter to the author, Metro Manila's chairman Francis Tolentino described the city's great "disappoint[ment] by your inaccurate portrayal of our beloved metropolis" and said: "We are displeased [by] how you have used Manila as a venue and source of a character's breakdown and trauma, much more her disillusionment in humanity".

He then goes on to say that when we see a play put on before an empty theater, we are displeased, not for the sake of the author or actors, but for the sake of the play itself, as work of art whose need to be contemplated is going unfulfilled (ibid., p. 544)!

With all the work we put into this, we're displeased when someone who is not licensed and certified to administer bad advice to writers comes along and does so without even consulting our institute first.

In no time, people began to climb aboard, including several community leaders, or baales, who were displeased that we had come without their permission.

"We sold more units, but the advertisers were displeased," he said.

"Voters were displeased with the way we had been discussing things inside the coalition," Mrs. Merkel conceded.

We also found that IUs with lower education were displeased with the "quality of basic facilities" of health services.

Many reporters were displeased.

Other Maple Leafs were displeased.

Local activists were displeased.

The band were displeased.