The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

But as the more concrete plans for the work of the Council gradually became known, there was a rather sharp and abrupt disappointment on all sides.

There was something not nice about triplets, though their father seemed pleased, showing no disappointment that they hadn't been the son he wanted, saying, `` You don't see triplets trippin' down the pike ever' day, Miss Jen, hon.

Hadn't Linda been a perfect wife to Bobbie, who was the least bit of a disappointment all these years??

The public, however, seemed to have little interest in a Chaplin film without Chaplin, and it was a box-office disappointment.

This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.

Despite a cast led by Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner and some impressive battle scenes, the film was considered a disappointment by many.

Charlton's return to the second tier of English football was a disappointment, with their promotion campaign tailing off to an 11th place finish.

And even in those that he was successful this would be temporary, just until a mistake or chance event caused another failure, another disappointment for the frustrated duck.

The book was widely regarded as a disappointment because of Lyell's equivocal treatment of evolution.

His son Franz suffered his entire life from an ( undiagnosed ) mental illness, his inferior intellect was a terrible disappointment to his father and this tragedy was a matter of distress to the mathematicians and students at Göttingen.

The album was a commercial disappointment compared to the band's previous effort, charting generally low at # 5.

It was considered a box office disappointment, but was nonetheless nominated for five Academy Awards.

The Finnish Social Democrats lack of interest in revolutionary activity and primary interest in sovereignty was a disappointment to Lenin.

This American empire was at first a disappointment, as the natives had little to trade, though settlement did encourage trade.

Mardi was a disappointment for readers who wanted another rollicking and exotic sea yarn.

And a final disappointment was that Cornerstone was available only for IBM PCs and not any of the other platforms that Infocom supported for their games ; while Cornerstone had been programmed with its own virtual machine for maximum portability, that feature had become essentially irrelevant.

Although Major proved " a great disappointment to Thatcher ," he was her preferred choice as successor as she expected to " continue in control of the country as a backseat driver ".

After the commercial disappointment of Citizen Kane, RKO was apprehensive about the new film, and after poor preview responses, cut it by nearly an hour before its release.

" It was a box office disappointment.

Page described the performance as " one big disappointment ", and Plant said that " the gig was foul ".

However, to Waid's disappointment, the canonicity of the series was eventually discredited by stories which followed it.

The ill-success of this publication, and the indifference with which the latter volumes of his History of the 19th Century were received by his countrymen, together with the feeling of disappointment that the unity of Germany had been brought about in another fashion and by other means than he wished to see employed, embittered his later years, though it did not sour his kindly and humane disposition, nor did it in the least affect his sociable temper, and he cultivated refined society to the last.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

Both it and Sunnyside were considered a disappointment by viewers.

Kleinman's negative view towards the culture-bound syndrome is largely shared by other cross-cultural critics, common responses included both disappointment over the large number of documented non-Western mental disorders still left out, and frustration that even those included were often misinterpreted or misrepresented.

Yet to her great disappointment her chance to become queen passed by, and in 1657 Olympia married Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons, Count of Dreux, and Prince of Savoy.

The final 17 reflect the bitter disappointment of liberals when the restored Bourbon monarchy, encouraged by the Catholic hierarchy, rejected the Spanish Constitution of 1812 and opposed both state and religious reform.

Clarence House made public the Prince's disappointment with the decision, though he said he would abide by it.

* Worry or disappointment left bad impression on the opponent, but led to relatively lower demands by the opponent.

" Rabbi David Wolpe believes that the Second Coming was " grown out of genuine disappointment " and invented by Christians to theologically compensate for Jesus ' death.

He lost the Westminster seat at the 1992 general election and expressed his disappointment by calling the Scottish people ' Ninety minute patriots '.

Although the failure to detect an aether wind was a disappointment, the results were accepted by the scientific community.

The Shillelagh was a disappointment compared to the later BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missile first produced in 1970 by the U. S. The TOW system, which could not fire gun rounds, and was guided by a wire which directly sent commands to the missile, proved simpler and more versatile.

Des Grieux comes from a noble and landed family, but forfeits his hereditary wealth and incurs the disappointment of his father by running away with Manon.

In the II Corps area the disappointment of 10 August was repeated, with the infantry managing to advance, being isolated by German artillery and then ( except in the 25th Division area near Westhoek ) forced back to their start line by German infantry counter-attacks.

He met with al-Husayni, who was impressed by him, at his office in Cairo ; however, much to Nasser's disappointment, the Egyptian Government refused to allow him to join al-Husayni's forces.

After extensive negotiations, involving detailed agreements about the UK's agricultural trade with Commonwealth countries such as New Zealand, British entry was vetoed by the French President, Charles de Gaulle, at a press conference in January 1963-much to the disappointment of Heath, who was a firm supporter of European common market membership for the United Kingdom.

His administration of the province was a disappointment, and his appointment as Duke was much resented by the Gascons, since Aquitaine had previously always been held directly by the King of England or his heir ; it was not felt to be a fief that a King could bestow on a subordinate.

He professed great disappointment in the way that his illustrations for Gulliver's Travels had been subsequently hand-coloured by art students, and complained about the reproduction of the very dark wood engravings for The Chester Play of The Deluge.

Gullit's early international career was marred by disappointment as the team failed to qualify for the 1982 FIFA World Cup and Euro 84.