What is "disappointing"

Usage examples of "disappointing".

There is, in fact, no building on earth which can sustain the burden of such greatness, and so the first visit to the Acropolis is and must be disappointing.

So we do the Academic Adagio, the Deconstructionist Dip, the Theosophical Thrash, to rationalize why we love or hate or enjoy or find disappointing some book or movie or comic or tv show.

He soon became convinced that he was called upon to do this act of kindness for the daughter of his former school-fellow--for Francis Derham, whom he had not known nor seen since they had exchanged the visions of boyhood for the disappointing realities of maturer age.

As time passed, it had been disappointing kenning that she wouldna seek his attention, wouldna return his kisses, but then she hadna turned from him, either.

Alwyn Stafford-the father of a tantalizing but disappointing new consensus: ancient wet Mars had produced no more than a few stunted microbial forms, starting three, maybe three and a half billion years ago.

Time and time again I rose with upstretched hand, only to feel the disappointing rocks close above me.

And the penalty for disappointing my least favorite rollerman was sudden execution.

Spitzbergen, so close to the Nc when Annis went there for a short she found herself falling in love wit Norwegian, though the affair wi disappointing.

Some buyers meet one pleasantly, and are perhaps all the more disappointing.

Miller leaned back on the comfortable leather upholstery of his Jaguar and lit up a Roth-Hdndl, a filterless black-tobacco cigarette with a foul smell, another thing that his mother complained about in her disappointing son.

Eliza, so accustomed to being disappointing, begins to wonder if the singularity of this, her first achievement, has caused her to overinflate its importance.

In desperation he sampled the older pubs. These were equally disappointing, with old men watching the newly-installed television and making a Guinness last all the evening.

I filled her in on our latest day of detective work, our disappointing meeting with Ruskin and Sikes, and she told us about her day at the hospital, even some verbatims from her off-service notes.

The Dictator displayed the spoils and tributes of Asia and King Mithridates with every tricky device conceivable to camouflage the fact that his conclusion of the war had been as hasty as it was premature, and that in consequence the booty was disappointing considering the wealth of the enemy.

Three weeks passed off in that position, and I cannot express what have been my sufferings, for you, of course, urged me to come, and I was always under the painful necessity of disappointing you.