Defeat is never easy to come to terms with but when your team goes down as tamely and disappointingly as this it is all the harder to take. |
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Cronyn is an inimitable professional, but her Virginia is disappointingly virtuous and fleshless. |
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Rapley could have taken the game into extra time when he latched on to a long clearance but shot disappointingly wide. |
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Though the wind seemed disappointingly light, I was excited to be on an 18 foot yacht, having sailed before only in dinghies. |
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When I left the girls they disappointingly still seemed to be getting on well, happily sitting on the kerbside by the gutter. |
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Competition for the young pound is hotting up despite the disappointingly slow start to the government's child trust fund scheme. |
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For all the vast erudition which so impressed his contemporaries, he wrote disappointingly little. |
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And the famous shopfront cover design has disappointingly been replaced with something less iconic. |
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Everyone's favourite cheeky actor comes undone in a disappointingly miscast role in Channel 4's latest gritty urban drama. |
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When it does resurface, on the final page of the book, it short-changes the reader dramatically and disappointingly. |
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For my money, this thoughtfulness makes the moments of gratuitous blasphemy disappointingly glib and unworthy of the rest of the script. |
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Ossett were crowned champions two years ago but were not promoted and performed disappointingly last season. |
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For all of its politically incorrect insults and potty-mouthed wordplay, the movie is disappointingly dull and toothless. |
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At the 1972 Games, the Briton ran disappointingly in the 10,000m to finish sixth. |
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Surprisingly, perhaps a bit disappointingly, the menu has not been renovated as extensively as the dining room. |
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The usual merits of Koopman's no-nonsense way with such works was in evidence but the performance remained disappointingly earthbound. |
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Yet, disappointingly, few of the scholarly articles are mentioned in the notes or bibliography. |
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However, unsurprisingly, but nonetheless disappointingly, the book for me, fails to achieve this goal. |
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Indeed, unusually and disappointingly, his decision not only quotes but actually relies upon a Washington Post OpEd on the issue! |
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Secondly, and perhaps disappointingly, pretty much the only thing taught about him is those seven unforgettable words. |
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Can we make a charge for a European place, or will the season fizzle out disappointingly? |
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What had felt so spirited and fresh back then feels disappointingly syrupy and cloying now. |
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Its visuals are disappointingly mediocre, featuring bland and utterly uninspired track designs. |
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But despite its topicality and breadth, this book fails disappointingly to fulfill its considerable potential. |
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In the dry season, all life moves north, leaving the southern plains disappointingly bare and empty. |
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The shoes will still be there if the world disappointingly backslides behind old battlelines. |
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So it's vaguely disappointing that I am probably suffering from a disappointingly vague malaise. |
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The left has made disappointingly slow progress in building a meritocratic society. |
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His treatment of the Maoist era is disappointingly brief, with a single chapter covering the entire period of collectivization. |
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After all, nobody can deny that two years after this much-debated summit, disappointingly little progress has been made. |
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A pink-flowered cosmos planted during the summer is at its best at the moment after spending the past few months developing bushy foliage with disappointingly few flowers. |
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The last time we played here, we know we lost disappointingly. |
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After a bright opening they lost their way and finished disappointingly. |
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Both candidates polled disappointingly in this Senate election. |
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Perhaps disappointingly, investigation techniques such as shadowing or discreetly checking out somebody's background take up just a small fraction of the course. |
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Least impressive is Tobey Maguire's narrator Nick Carraway, disappointingly painted as a straw-hatted goof. |
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Yet on the whole, the album disappointingly lacks its author's signature stark vivacity. |
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City of York Ladies Hockey Club failed to baptise their new name with a win in the season's opening North League game as they disappointingly slipped 5-1 at home to Leyland. |
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The dog trapped poorly, ran disappointingly, and when I met Marlyn with the dog at the trackside, I immediately noticed he was over duly distressed. |
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There will be no such revamp in 2015 and, disappointingly, the safe seats that exist are being snapped up by men. |
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Towelling robes are disappointingly skimpy by western standards, but the delicious-smelling bathroom products are by Amrita Spa. |
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Rather disappointingly he chose to be the bigger man and merely cantered past his rival without so much as a sideways look. |
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But Miliband was disappointingly quiet on other areas – crucially on privatisation of public services. |
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Every time I look at that number I see that it is disappointingly low, but I couldn't quote it for you, unfortunately. |
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Progress here has been disappointingly slow and this now needs to be addressed. |
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We have to say, however, that almost half way into 2010 we see disappointingly scant evidence that progress is being made towards that objective. |
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Slightly more internally displaced persons returned to Kosovo in 2007 than in 2006, but the number of returns remains disappointingly low. |
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Phase 2 monitoring, however, which is intended to examine the enforcement of the convention, got off to a disappointingly slow start. |
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Studies on basic education show a positive but disappointingly small impact. |
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The idea is not altogether new, but earlier attempts to integrate the region fell disappointingly short. |
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The new US administration's bank rescue package is disappointingly timid and will struggle to draw a line under the problems in the sector. |
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In my last report of 2000 I underlined the disappointingly slow rate of ratification. |
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The Committee noted that the pace of progress in developing such a plan by the Court had been disappointingly slow over the past year. |
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I must admit that I find the progress made by donor countries to be disappointingly slow. |
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Also, slightly disappointingly, it diminishes the role of the grown-ups. |
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Girl Most Likely may have been disappointingly slight, and not that vehicle. |
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It's cold and disappointingly damp in London for the great Jubilee river pageant today, in contrast to the recent heatwave. |
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Connelly broke through again and slipped a clever pass for Lovenkrands, whose run took him past Sutton, but his angled shot was disappointingly wide. |
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But the U.S. government has proved disappointingly slow in granting those visas. |
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Even the women's Nationals had only nine players and the men's draws for this event and the team selection tourneys have been disappointingly small as well. |
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To the south-east of Koh Tao is Shark Island, named, rather disappointingly, because of the shape of a shark fin formed by the top of the island itself. |
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While the most recent period indicates a welcome increase in numbers of returnees compared to previous periods, the overall numbers of returns remains disappointingly low. |
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Even if the atmosphere is generally grey and the affluence disappointingly weak, these women are still there, holding peace for an end goal against rivers and mountains. |
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After a disappointingly gloopy and flavourless bean curd and sweetcorn soup, my companion was a little deflated. |
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Forest's threat was intermittent at best, though Robert Tesche, having sliced one effort disappointingly wide, drew an outstanding close-range save from Westwood after the Wednesday defence failed to clear a corner. |
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There have been two hen harrier nesting attempts on or adjacent to grouse moors this spring but, disappointingly, neither have resulted in chicks hatching. |
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The deep-fried rings were disappointingly on the rubbery side and rather flavourless. |
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Mr President, on a final note, I should like to support you and the rapporteur in the fact that we are holding this debate far too late in the evening, and that attendance is disappointingly low. |
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Despite general acknowledgement of the potential benefits of a single European market, the transposition rate of Internal Market directives remains disappointingly low. |
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Although the Committee anticipates a gradual return to higher levels of resource utilization in a context of price stability, progress toward its objectives has been disappointingly slow. |
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Kate Winslet's composure Her frock may have mixed a fish tail and bat ears but Kate Winslet was disappointingly conservative in her acceptance speech. |
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The U.S. economy is growing, ever fitfully and disappointingly. |
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While deploring the fact that the overall number of voluntary minority returns remains disappointingly low, we are encouraged by news of the recent gradual increase in numbers. |
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Now, Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed that yes, expectedly and somewhat disappointingly, the Apple Watch will need charging every night – just like the majority of smartwatches currently on the market. |
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I spent countless hours revising, but, disappointingly, I still failed the exam. |
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There is disappointingly little new on climate change, and plenty to indicate that there is no enthusiasm for challenging Britain's profligate carbon consumption. |
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I was crushed to discover, yet again, how wrong I was, how disappointingly terrible my singing remained: wobbly, overly dark, throaty, the diction mangled, and always, far too much work. |
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In any other circumstances, the skipper would probably be complaining about the disappointingly calm weather, but today, he is quite happy about it: «To be honest, given my condition, it's no bad thing! |
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Blackburn were disappointingly tame as an attacking threat and went further behind as Kane got on the scoresheet, failing to defend a Ben Marshall corner. |
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Roger's lamb was disappointingly short on taste, and the accompanying caraway spatzle released a back-of-the-spice-drawer mustiness that unbalanced the dish. |
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Of them all, the Digestive is pretty much the undisputed champion, seeing off the Johnnycome-lately Hob-Nob, which is disappointingly, riskily crumbly. |
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