The past year has been a chapter of disappointed expectations.

There is, as in many family stories, plenty of abuse and betrayal, scandal, failed love, disappointed expectation.

In a world of disappointed expectations, the Israeli election had a transforming quality.

Not bitterness about their experiences or nightmares about what they might have witnessed there but "disappointed expectations."

He would have her - to keep - and she would put him in possession of his disappointed expectations.

When overhauling the Treaty, did they really respond to disappointed expectations?

There are so many disappointed expectations.

I contradicted laws, disappointed expectations, and defied balances.

The decade of the 1990s was another era of disappointed expectations.

The $800 million decline, to $15.7 billion, disappointed expectations that the gap would shrink to $14.5 billion or less.