Disappointments Sentence Examples

Disappointments abounded as well.

Meanwhile Anne had suffered a series of maternal disappointments.

This was to be but the first of many disappointments in this direction; there was apparently some fatal scruple, both in Henrys own mind and in that of his continental subjects, as to pressing their suzerain too hard.

They counsel abstemious habits, but set no time for the coming of Christ, and so are spared the perpetual disappointments that overtake the ordinary adventist.

She reached that point in her life and her career through hard work and dedication, surviving her earlier abuse and disappointments.

Though severely tried by disappointments and defeats he never lost hope, and when he died in 1584 he was preparing to renew the struggle and endeavouring to form for that purpose an alliance with England; his great idea, however, was not to be realized till more than a century later, and meanwhile the tsardom of Muscovy had to pass through a severe internal crisis in which its existence was seriously endangered.

All these institutions are performing a great regenerative work, and the tribulations and disappointments of the last decades of the 19th century were not all loss.

Her residence was at Rhenen near Arnheim, where she received many English visitors and endeavoured to maintain her spirits and fortitude, with straitened means and in spite of frequent disappointments.

The life of pleasure which he had lived in his youth comes back to him, not as it was in its actual distractions and disappointments, but in the idealizing light of meditative retrospect.

After many disappointments he persuaded the Catholic sovereigns Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain to furnish him with a squadron of three smalljvessels.

Louis, always inexhaustible in expedients, determined to indemnify himself in the north for his disappointments in the south.

Between the perhaps excessive admiration of Innocent's biographer, Friedrich von Hurter, and the cooler estimate of a later historian, Felix Rocquain, who, after taking into consideration Innocent's political mistakes, lack of foresight and numerous disappointments and failures, concludes that his reputation has been much exaggerated, it is possible to steer a middle course and form a judgment that is at once impartial and conformable to the historical facts.

In his dealings with Frederick, Innocent experienced grievous vicissitudes and disappointments, but finally became master of the situation.

Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments.

It is somewhat hard to understand why so little favour was shown by the king to one who had proved himself able and willing to do good service, and who, in spite of his disappointments, still continued zealously to offer advice and assistance.

His later years were clouded with many sorrows and disappointments; his relations with Governor Joseph Dudley were unfriendly; he lost much of his former prestige in the Church - his own congregation dwindled - and in the college; his uncle John Cotton was expelled from his 8 8 4 _ Mather, Increase charge in the Plymouth Church; his son Increase turned out a ne'er-do-well; four of his children and his second wife died in November 1713; his wife's brothers and the husbands of his sisters were ungodly and violent men; his favourite daughter Katherine, who "understood Latin and read Hebrew fluently," died in 1716; his third wife went mad in 1719; his personal enemies circulated incredible scandals about him; and in 1724-1725 he saw a Liberal once more preferred to him as a new president of Harvard.

The keenness of the satire on courts, parties and statesmen certainly suggests that it was planned while Swift's disappointments as a public man were still rankling and recent.

But this was only one of many such disappointments.

It might have been said that even at that time intrigue to get rid of him had yet to cease in his own party; and but a few years before, a man growing old, he was still in the lowest deeps of his disappointments and humiliations.

He himself was shattered in health by so many years of continuous campaigning and exposure, and by the cares and disappointments which had befallen him.

After various disappointments they found access to Chow-king-fu on the SiKiang or West River of Canton, where the viceroy of the two provinces of Kwang-tung and Kwang-si then had his residence, and by his favour were able to establish themselves there for some years.

She was just of age when the Fronde broke out, and, attributing as she did her disappointments to Mazarin, she sympathized with it not a little.

But all his disappointments, if not forgotten, at least were put on hold when he qualified for a Varsity letter and the right to wear the maroon sweater of the Parkside Bulldogs.

And if we are to avoid the debacle of Seattle and the disappointments of Cancun the richest countries must agree to move.

While most students can overcome minor disappointments, some do not and they leave.

He was intensely interested in the Dreyfus case, but his robust constitution was undermined by the anxieties and disappointments occasioned by the Zola trial and the Rennes court-martial, and he died in Paris on the 13th of November 1899.

The story of the first Atlantic cable is told elsewhere (see Telegraph), and it must suffice here to say that in 1858, after two disappointments, Bright successfully accomplished what to many had seemed an impossible feat, and within a few days of landing the Irish end of the line at Valentia he was knighted in Dublin.

He has suffered so many disappointments and is so sensitive, said she to the mother.

Denisov, dissatisfied with the government on account of his own disappointments in the service, heard with pleasure of the things done in Petersburg which seemed to him stupid, and made forcible and sharp comments on what Pierre told them.

Early disappointments had seen two seaborne landings against the Japanese fail.

However, looking back, it seems that the disappointments I experienced in the past were probably more related to the fact that I had a hard time remembering to use them as directed since doing so added a step to my brushing routine.

This helps avoid any disappointments with your purchases.

Disappointments aside, the GameCube still had a good flow of original games in 2005.

Parental career disappointments can cause anxiety and self-doubt in children.

On the other hand, if you are the kind of guy who experiences hurts and disappointments deeply, and who is romantic about love, then I would say that it's not a good idea to get back with your girlfriend.

Virgo is a perfectionist, while Scorpio accepts life's limitations and disappointments.

Work will be better this year than last year's disappointments.

Auto manufacturer researchers from Automobile Magazine tallied 2008 car sales statistics and found some surprises as well as a few disappointments.