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  • Disappointment is one thing ... hating a candidate for beating your candidate is a little foolish.

    Obama supporters planning DNC counter-protest 2008

  • Disappointment is the catalyst for defection and negative word-of-mouth.

    Stupid, stupid Yahoo « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Disappointment, which is a high promontory, the north cape at the mouth of the river, from which there is a splendid look out over the river and bays, the land and the ocean.

    Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832 1925

  • Next appears a shade of ruined loveliness, with dust among her golden hair and her bright garments all faded and defaced, stealing from your glance with drooping head, as fearful of reproach; she was your fondest Hope, but a delusive one; so call her Disappointment now.

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • "Disappointment" is shared here by Head of Legal and Jacqui Smith.

    S and Marper v UK 2008

  • "Disappointment" is the writers and thinkers of Team Axelrod positioning Obama away from his numerous errors of judgment about who he associates with or a numbnuts vote he cast.

    Should a man wear a tie the color of his wife's outfit... even when the color is orange? Ann Althouse 2008

  • "Disappointment" may be too strong a word, as I did enjoy it...but nothing about this comic really screamed "special."

    Archive 2004-08-08 2004

  • "Disappointment" may be too strong a word, as I did enjoy it...but nothing about this comic really screamed "special."

    Archive 2004-08-08 2004

  • And yet, when I got home, the plot of "Disappointment" (with one "s") so took hold of me that I did the unforgivable thing; I went to my desk and wrote the opera.

    Once a Week 1919

  • "Disappointment --" said Barbara, giving him his cue.

    Mr. Waddington of Wyck May Sinclair 1904

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