Sentence examples for withering disappointment from inspiring English sources
Five years, and yet another withering disappointment.
But I think it is the love between the two men, homoerotic but not in a bodily way, that fuels their relationship and has each remain a devotee of the other despite abundant opposition from family and supporters; it is this love that enables them to withstand the withering disappointments they each serve up to one another.
Though Rudd and Graves both paid a price for Collins's aversion to the institution of marriage, their carefully managed domesticity seems preferable to, say, the monstrous bonhomie of the Dickens household, which was one long Stanford Prison Experiment of leapfrog, amateur dramatics and withering patriarchal disappointment.
Mr Billington's enthusiasm withers in the 1970s: a time of disappointment, disillusion and a pervasive sense of despair.
That urge has weathered disappointment after disappointment, promising rounds followed by uninspired ones, withered comebacks and unmounted charges.
The hostilities are withering.
Heartrending disappointment".
