Disappointment
Letdown when reality falls short of what was hoped for or promised.
30 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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30 tagged passages
- LTAH-RC-035From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
[7] Consistent with this, Plato regarded the visible world as a sad illusion, or delusion, in comparison with the deep realities or Forms that lay beyond it. He looked to ideals beyond the particular – so an ultimate Fo…
- WMBK-RC-011From What My Bones Know (2022)
The point of this journal was to improve my writing skills, but it was also to preserve my well-curated childhood. She hoped that as an adult, I would flip through this notebook fondly, letting it fill me with sentiment…
- TOL-RC-845From The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction) (2016)
Grigorevitch he called the book, which was based, in his opinion, on false premises, "a denial of all live human life" and "a new sort of Nihilism." It is evident that even then Turgenieff did not understand what a mast…
- TSS-RC-799From The Second Sex (1949)
Just as she is in her studies, she lacks confidence, inspiration, and daring. In an effort to succeed, she becomes tense. Her behavior is a series of provocations and abstract self-affirmations. The greatest failure a l…
- AK-RC-614From Anna Karenina (1877)
The dinner, the wine, the decoration of the table were all very good; but it was all like what Darya Alexandrovna had seen at formal dinners and balls which of late years had become quite unfamiliar to her; it all had t…
- EFWS-RC-031From Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure (1993)
In terms of the scope of the result of the scene to be written, a writer can err in two possible ways: She can select a goal so small or insignificant that the scope of the result cannot possibly be broad enough to affe…
- STAC-RC-3075From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
LECTIO FOURTEEN§ 199. Having reviewed and criticised earlier opinions on the soul the Philosopher proceeds now to put certain questions of his own; which at ‘Some say’ he begins to answer. But first we have to realise t…
- LABG-RC-098From The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival (1903)
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- HCCC-RC-1376From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
This blasphemous flattery was too much even for the vain emperor, and he exhorted the bishop rather to pray God that he might be worthy to be one of his servants in this world and the next.231 Even the church historian …
- GB-RC-115From The Great Believers (2018)
My daughter gave me this word-a-day calendar for Christmas.” He tapped the little block of paper attached to a plastic easel on his desk, turned it toward them. Today’s word was avuncular . “Yeah, he’s a big oenophile .…
- SWK-RC-100From Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge (2004)
In 1668 Charles II gave Barbara, Lady Castlemaine, the lovely Berkshire House. The gift had a dual purpose—to silence her clamoring for money for a while and to remove her termagant presence from Whitehall Palace. Soon …
- BSES-RC-049From The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (2008)
industrialization, utilitarian individualism and the nation-state provided the general conditions for the rise of the division between the public and the private world. The important feature of this division in modern s…
- SHF-RC-3440From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
This book is the whole truth which every Christian should study.604 It is the measure and standard of all logic. Logic, as in Oxford, changes very frequently, yea, every twenty years, but the Scriptures are yea, yea and…
- BDF-RC-458From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
But this caused such a storm of horror on the part of Frau Permaneder that she had to abandon the plan for the time being. As was to be expected, Ms. Permaneder's protests also extended to the sale of the house her brot…
- SSS-RC-740From The Second Sex (1949)
Her misfortune is that, in spite of all her bad faith, she is aware of this nothingness. There cannot be a real relationship between an individual and his double, because this double does not exist. The woman narcissist…
- SSS-RC-663From The Second Sex (1949)
There are many degrees between the common prostitute and the grand hetaera. The main difference is that the former trades in her pure generality, so that competition keeps her at a miserable level of living, while the l…
- CHR5-RC-066From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 5 (451 – 1800) (2009)
552–4) and when Islam pressed ever closer. For their part, the Ottomans were well disposed to a movement which encouraged their new Christian subjects to introspection and political passivity. A theology which asserted …
- WBA-RC-072From When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
Another stable scan six months after diagnosis passed, and I reopened my job search. With my cancer under control, I might have several years left. It seemed the career I had worked for years to attain, which had disapp…
- SSJ-RC-082From Sense and Sensibility (1811)
“Do come now,” said he—“pray come—you must come—I declare you shall come—You can’t think how you will like them. Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable! The children are all hanging about her alrea…
- NB-RC-102From The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (2006)
3) Dead-eyed waiters, sitting in empty booths, looking bored, unhappy, and defeated. This alone is reason to flee. The waiter knows, better than anybody, how bad things are. At my meal, as soon as my journalist pal and …