Sentences with phrase «general disappointment»

Moreover, the discontent expressed at last year's AGM was also connected to other factors, including pay - for - performance concerns raised by a proxy advisor and a general disappointment with the (not so restraining) effects of the Minder regulation.

INDIANAPOLIS — Over the last two seasons, these things have stuck out about Tennessee's football program: general disappointment, fans wanting the Volunteers to hire Jon Gruden, and a star running back emerging while everything crumbled around him.

When I get together with my single friends, we often vent about the woes, the awkwardness, and the general disappointment involved in dating.

My general disappointment with this year's lineup owes something, I'm sure, to the unusually high number of well - reviewed films that played in Toronto but that I wasn't able to see, including David Cronenberg's Map to the Stars, Xavier Dolan's Mommy, Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner, Abderrahmane Sissako's Timbuktu, Andrey Zvyagintsev «s Leviathan, Pascale Ferran's Bird People, and Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan.

Understanding the jaw - dropping effort that went into this movie, it's tempting to wish that Kobiela, Welchman, and their army of animators had come to the same conclusion that old Albinus reached before he scrapped the whole idea: A film made in this way, he reckoned, «would bore most people to death and be a general disappointment.»

The look — blocky black and white graphics enlivened by bursts of color — remains embedded in my memory, along with a general disappointment that the story glorified old stereotypes without adding much more than a whiff of self - aware, modernist ridicule at its hoariness.

Nonetheless Tim excitedly tries out his new talent only to be met with unrequited love and general disappointment.

With the recent occupy Wall Street movement, some may believe that people today are making significant strides forward socially; however, only a few people are involved and they hardly have a common purpose beyond expressing their general disappointment.

Quite honestly, we were shocked and pleasantly surprised that the WIFI actually worked as promised (a general disappointment we experience way too often with previous homes, condos and fine hotels we've booked).

The value of all life on Earth was originally placed at almost triple the amount of Microsoft points, but a surprise ruling from Twisted Pixel today cited a declining economy and a general disappointment in humanity as the root for assuring its destruction at the incredible price of 800 Microsoft Points.

And expect freewheeling conversation fueled by camaraderie and a general disappointment with the ways are turning out for us all.