Sentences with phrase «something of a disappointment for»

After making the PFA Team of the Year in 2012/13 last campaign was something of a disappointment for this Tottenham Hotspur star, who can play either centrally or as a left - back.

You could say this was implemented to make things easier to digest for newcomers to the fighting game genre, but it is something of a disappointment for veterans.

This must have been something of a disappointment for anyone hoping for something else.

Today let's take a look at WWDC 2012, where Apple took the wraps off of Mountain Lion, iOS 6 and new MacBook models... While WWDC 2011 had been something of a disappointment for hardware mavens, 2012 roared back with a...

Not exact matches

I'm afraid some mega churches and country churches are in for something of a disappointment, for their brand of love is no love at all.

As long as men hope for something, they are victims of disappointment and disillusionment.

In the midfield, (including RWB & LWB) we have a whole bunch of tweeners... none offer the full package, none make sense in our manager's current favourite formation, except for Sead on the left and Ox on the right, and all of them have never shown any consistency for more than a heartbeat... Sead, who I'm including in this category because of our present formation, looks like a positive addition, minus his occasional brain farts, but I would rather see what he could do in a back 4 before making my mind up... Ox, who has never played better, which isn't saying much considering his largely underwhelming play in previous seasons, seems to have found a home in this new formation; unfortunately, can we really expect this oft - injured player to handle the taxing duties that come with said position over the long haul, not to mention, it looks like he has no intention of staying... Ramsey has relied on the empathy that stems from his gruesome injury years ago and the excitement that was generated a few years back when he finally seemed to put in altogether, but on the whole he has been a big disappointment (neither he nor the Ox have scored enough to warrant a regular spot)... Wiltshire should be put on a weekly contract then played until he suffers his first injury, if and when that occurs he should be shipped - out and no one should very be allowed to say his name on club grounds ever again... Elnehy & Coq are average players who couldn't make any of the top 7 teams currently in the EPL... both have showed some great energy on the pitch, but neither are top quality and no good team can afford to have that many average players on their bench playing the same position, especially with Coq's injury history / discipline concerns and Elheny's headless chicken tendencies... as for Xhaka, his tenure here so far has been incredibly underwhelming... we know he has some skills to provide the long ball but his defensive work is piss poor and he gives the ball away too cheaply and far too often... finally, the enigma himself, Ozil, so much skill with his left foot but his presence has been more frustrating than uplifting... in many respects his failure has been directly related to the failure of this club to provide him with the necessary players up front, minus Sanchez of course, and unless something drastic happens very soon his legacy will be largely a negative one (much like Wenger's)

It is a tough environment for most players to succeed in, and Bale won't be the last Galactico to prove something of a disappointment, but there can be no doubt now that the lack of trophies for Real this season will prove the catalyst for his departure, most likely back to the more familiar and comfortable Premier League.

He has stated his massive disappointment at the way the game panned out and is probably hoping that he gets the backing of the AFA, something he may well end up waiting some time for.

personally I have lost faith and patience with him, on the field and off it, he has been a massive disappointment and a let down...... people are going on about his form in Roma, I say he is not doing something he has not dome at Arsenal, he has good games but lacks that consistency and maturity you will expect from a player who has been given the number one jersey for more than 2 years in one of the biggest clubs in the world.....

Well I hope that the boss has been taking on board these criticisms and that he responds to them today when the Gunners take on West Ham at the Emirates stadium later, because if he does not do something to negate the threat posed by Andy Carroll then we could be in for another painful 90 minutes of disappointment.

Upon hearing the news of Gibbs» foot problem I voiced my disappointment that his push for a starting berth had been dealt another setback, but hopefully the Englishman can get back to his best soon and give Wenger something to think about.

I guess the biggest disappointment for me was our inability to hold on to a lead, something we have been guilty of several times this season, too.

Although it marked the first time that the SNP had managed to outpoll Labour in local elections, the outcome of those elections was, in truth, widely regarded as something as a disappointment for the nationalists.

She also told the New Paltz Times that what prompted her to run was, among many disappointments in Cuomo's record the past four years, «when he did not support public financing of elections this spring: something he promised to do when he ran for governor.»

And the actors playing the Avengers (as well as some of their non-super helpmates, including Gwyneth Paltrow as Iron Man's lady friend Pepper Potts and Clark Gregg as the loyal Agent Coulson) are such charismatic company that it comes as something of a disappointment each time the kibitzing gives way to crime - fighting, with long breaks for spectacular (and often spectacularly dull) CGI - enhanced action set pieces, including the climactic invasion of New York City by semi-organic robot reptiles.

Such inadequacies would be acceptable, if not expected, in any of Affleck's prior disposable action flicks, but as a newly minted director of superior films (Gone Baby Gone), and being that The Town vaguely aims for something higher, the result is a disappointment.

Warner's DVD version of McCabe & Mrs. Miller is unfortunately something of a disappointment in the technical department: the 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen image is too black for a film that was pre-exposed in order to decrease contrast, while digital video noise reduction looks like it was rather severely applied to the intentionally gritty images, resulting in a general lack of detail.

Not too much for a rental but enough to consider this something of a disappointment.

He perfectly compliments Cage's David, who searches every nook and cranny for something, any kind of acknowledgement of pride or disappointment.

For me, he captured the anger and rage of the character, as well as the disappointment and hurt over something so precious as a daughter, now lost.

He's well known for his stage portrayals of larger - than - life characters — including Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, among others — but his perfectly modulated performance here is one of managed disappointment, something apparently too subtle for Academy Award voters to recognize.

In what will more than likely go down as the biggest disappointment of the year in film for me, Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone isn't something that I would label as bad but I certainly couldn't call it very...

Scattered moments in which the performers make something of the dross they're asked to perform can't make up for the long stretches of boredom and disappointment that must accompany any viewing of Valentine's Day.

Ford is something of a disappointment, as he doesn't tell us much about his work, but others make up for his blandness.

Though the film has developed something of a cult following due to its off - the - wall action sequences and clever storyline, the film was a financial disappointment, and films based on Deus Ex, Just Cause, and Thief have been quiet for years.

I would say that Worthington's performance was the biggest disappointment of the film for me, but to be disappointed by something means you have to have expected something from it in the first place.

As parliament buildings go, Athens» dull sand - colored block is something of a disappointment, but hang around to see the changing of the guard, which happens hourly, and you're in for a spectacle.

The game likes to occasionally mix things up with some puzzles, something which I'm usually all for, but once again the sting of disappointment is just waiting to be felt.

Being an MMO, this is a fairly common practice in the genre, but for players constantly looking for something new to do or who rather play alone, they'll be in for a bit of disappointment.

Amy was something of a disappointment, the hammer being a poor substitute for no added mobility abilities.

Though the film has developed something of a cult following due to its off - the - wall action sequences and clever storyline, the film was a financial disappointment, and films based on Deus Ex, Just Cause, and Thief have been quiet for years.

no cause for despair any longer, for you know: at some point something will come of it; indeed, you count on the disappointment from the outset.

32 GB of integrated storage, with no microSD card slot, is a bit of a disappointment, but for $ 450 with no contract it's understandable that something had to be cut.