Word: letdowns
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Most museum shops are a letdown, filled with cheap imitations and tacky souvenirs. Fortunately there are some that offer faithful replicas - of everything from cutting-edge architecture to millennium sold jewelry - as well as items that reflect the spirit of their collections. And it's all available online. You can't have the originals, but here's where to get the next best thing...
...other runners who trained meticulously and had spent many hundreds of dollars in airfare, hotel rooms and equipment to take part in the race, the cancellation was a major letdown...
...bottom line is, he competed like heck, and he obviously made a big run.”That said, the inability to convert on a third-and-three in the fourth quarter, a conversion that would have permitted Harvard to run out the clock, was a huge letdown on an otherwise successful day.“I think the bottom line is we had our chances to finish them off, and we didn’t finish them off,” Murphy said. “We all need to work a little bit more in the crucial...
...that stock prices would rise forever. They learned differently. And now we are learning differently about real estate as well. Whenever the price people will pay today depends on the belief that other people will pay even more tomorrow, you've got a bubble. It takes only a slight letdown in those expectations to send the whole delightful, self-feeding process into reverse...
...place in the late afternoons, and shortly afterwards they emerge from the Airstream like humbled dormice." Ondaatje has a gift for capturing music and landscape in words, and there are gorgeous descriptions of strumming guitars, running horses and swooping hawks. But the second part of the book is a letdown; the descriptions in France are often too contrived, too literary. We want less about Segura's art, more about Coop and his crooked card games. And then there's the question of whether the book coheres. In addition to the echoes of repeating themes, characters are linked by shared sentiments...