Madame Bovary put up her eyeglasses. Leon, motionless, looked at her, no longer even attempting to speak a single word, to make a gesture, so discouraged was he at this two-fold obstinacy of gossip and indifference.
And that, the antidote to the catastrophe of life, and the suffering of life, and the tragedy of life; that can drive you down and destroy you, is to take on exactly that responsibility.
And we should say the obvious, that this Japanese strategy of somehow persuading the Americans that it wasn't worth fighting, somehow making them war-weary, disenchanted, giving up, that did not come to pass, did it?
" To disappoint" someone is to make someone feel sad by not meeting their expectations – by doing something less than what people thought you would do.