0 the feeling of being disappointed: --
1 the unhappiness or discouragement that results when your hopes or expectations have not been satisfied, or someone or something that is not as good as you had hoped or expected: --
On the former, the advantages and surpassed expectations clearly exceeded the problems and disappointments, so that for 80 per cent of our informants, their well-being score was positive.
His eventual blindness is hardly touched upon in the narrative, despite its prominence in the title, which is one of the few disappointments in his compelling narrative.
In these circumstances, most parents would decide to have the operation performed, even though doing so would mean that the child would suffer greater disappointments in life.
The external events draw a profile of a successf ul woman who no doubt suffered disappointments and setbacks but never theless continued to struggle and achieve a great deal.
They also experience continuous disappointments.
The fact that so many disappointments with the reality of such services were voiced seemed, at its simplest, to reflect a lack of shared agendas between the parties.
They also made the fewest references to environmental and life-style advantages and unanticipated benefits, complemented by significantly frequent references to problems and disappointments in this category.
The private family sphere was no communal realm of virtue ' ruled by altruism and love ', but instead a 'sphere of expectations, disappointments, critique, and moral judgement ' (p. 28).
