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
- GBR-RC-162From The Great Believers (2018)
She opened the refrigerator, and although there wasn’t much, it was health food: plain yogurt, bottled green drinks, what seemed to be the French version of Tofurkey. “Expires next spring,” Arnaud said, still looking at…
- SMET-RC-305From The Story of My Experiments with Truth (An Autobiography) (1927)
I had taken it for granted that the men who had observed strict discipline for full 21 days would without any difficulty be able to remain standing in an orderly manner while the sweets were being distributed, and not m…
- GEJS-RC-129From Goddesses in Everywoman
Education is usually a pastime for such a girl, not an occupational prerequisite. She struggles to get assignments done and papers written, because she is easily diverted and/or lacks confidence. Characteristically, she…
- MM-RC-279From The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2000)
This does not describe the human species as I know it. Watch any group of people conversing, and you will see the exact opposite of the behavior predicted by the kinship and reciprocity theories of language. People comp…
- CTA-RC-010From The Canterbury Tales (2009)
Among our merry company was a MERCHANT with a forked beard. He was dressed in an outfit of many colours, just like the players in the Mysteries, and rode on a high saddle from which he looked down at me. He wore a Flemi…
- DB-RC-291From The Decameron (1353)
‘Madam, it was a costly idea of mine to take you fishing with me, for nobody ever experienced so much sorrow as I have endured from the day I lost you, and now it appears, from the coldness of your greeting, that you do…
- CFT01-RC-081From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009)
European leadership because of military defeat, and then there would be other contenders: first England, followed by Geneva.Prospects for a civilized religious settlement and the reunion of the Western Church were high …
- HCCC-RC-1114From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
§ 163. The Pseudo-Clementine Works. The most complete collection of the genuine and spurious works of Clement in Migne’s Patrol. Graeca, Tom. I. and II. The name of Clement has been forged upon several later writings, b…
- STAC-RC-3073From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
§ 195. But, however the objections are put, the result is damaging to this theory. To say that fire or air is a living body is most improbable in itself; it is contradicted by experience; and is unsupported by any good …
- HCCP-RC-3529From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Gregory Nazianzen, who, in the judgment of Socrates, was the most devout and eloquent man of his age,635 and who himself, as bishop of Constantinople, presided for a time over the second ecumenical council, had so bitte…