But it is a mild letdown in a week that has taken lives and broken hearts.
Some may view this as a pleasant transformation, but it's kind of a letdown.
"I'm sure it'll be a little bit of a letdown, " Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.
Some investors are feeling a letdown after good earnings from Google (GOOG) yesterday.
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That's a little bit of a letdown for Rockies infielder Jordan Pacheco, who was hoping to meet Jeter.
Buffalo avoided a letdown to win its second straight shootout game, following a 4-3 victory at Florida on Thursday.
As an entrepreneur in the tech industry, I have experienced the launch-date letdown both firsthand and through partners and clients.
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Most importantly, the Sabres showed no hint of a letdown during the third period when both teams traded one-goal leads.
It's just like being unable to conceal your letdown expression when unwrapping that pair of socks at Secret Santa parties.
What could have been the highlight of the line-up of politicians, Congressman Paul Ryan, turned out to be a letdown.
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And retail investors were caught up in the excitement of the product then the letdown of an IPO mispriced for real demand.
Y'all know that'd be a letdown, not to mention a culture clash.
If not, we may be looking at yet another earnings season letdown.
Mahathir's diatribes showed no signs of a letdown on the second day.
Much hyped moments, like the ability to fly a Pelican at long last, are kind of a letdown once you see them in practice.
Jordan Pittard thinks about his father's next potential deployment, too: "I wouldn't say a letdown, but it would kind of hurt if he left again, " he said.
But for Daniel Mattes, that number which he got in 2009 when he sold Jajah to European telecom Telefonica (NYSE:TEF) was a bit of a letdown.
But an odd side effect of all of the very great tennis is that now the merely good tennis winds up feeling like a weird kind of letdown.
On Saturday Wiggins and his British teammates failed to escort sprinter Mark Cavendish to the line for a presumed gold medal, and it was treated like a civic letdown.
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In recent years, the game of watching the commercials which are supposedly as big as the game itself has become a bit of a letdown, the result of rising expectations.
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When you really gear up for something, the letdown is that much starker (you get the feeling Jim Harbaugh would crash harder from a loss than his brother John would).
The other two--the economy is at the end of a decade-long expansion and the post-Olympic letdown is making itself felt--will help ensure that this will be a long and deep downturn.
Spring has been teasing us with its promise for a while now, and with the exception of a couple of days last month, the season has been a letdown so far.
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Well, I can't say that Tim Cook won me back to the iOS ecosystem, but the iPhone 5 announcement certainly wasn't a letdown in the same way that the 4S was.
Arizona (20-3, 8-3) never fully recovered after struggling against Cal's zone defense to open in the second half and had a rare letdown on defense, allowing Cal to shoot 59 percent.
The worst ratings of the decade: the 2003 tourney, which actually had many highly seeded teams reach the Sweet 16 but suffered a letdown a round later after Duke and Notre Dame bowed out.
Why the letdown after all the initial excitement?
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And, after good support from Chris Woakes (22), Naqaash Tahir (24), then Sreesanth (25no), the only letdown was the manner of his unnecessary dismissal, run out attempting a second run to Adams at third man.
With a jury-rigged lineup, the Yankees were 24-14 going into Tuesday anyway in first place in the American League East and Girardi found himself answering a question if the return of Granderson, for starters, might lead to a letdown.
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