At his words my face fell in sad disappointment.

"And a sad disappointment it must have been that they had to settle for you instead!"

"The matter then becomes sad disappointment for me," he answered.

In the event, it seems unlikely that such an event would take place, for this book is a sad disappointment.

Your work here - so good, so valuable - would be worth living for in spite of the saddest personal disappointments.

I was a sad disappointment to them.

It would have been a sad disappointment to anyone ferreting in the top drawer of his desk.

A sad disappointment to him, I am afraid, and to all his friends.

As for the people of Papeete, they were a sad disappointment.

One which continued to satisfy her on a visual level, though in every other respect he too had proven a sad disappointment.