But I was to meet with a cruel disappointment.

Thus, of cruel disappointment and enervation is born the New Yorker's ironic detachment.

Anything less overpowering would have been a cruel disappointment.

Finding out so harshly that he did not could only be a cruel disappointment.

Over what cruel disappointment or bitter inevitability?

For a man who had dreamed of being rewarded for his undercover services with a knighthood, it was a cruel disappointment.

But when Stan plucked the green US government voucher out of its envelope the numbers were a cruel disappointment.

A third girl between two wives would be a cruel disappointment," said Gaius Octavius with a sigh.

Five years later, the situation is a cruel disappointment.

It will be a cruel disappointment for them!