I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,

However, no one is more disappointed than the tens of thousands of couples and their families that won't have the same rights and privileges that Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger have been afforded,

I'm very surprised and disappointed by these maneuvers.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

We were ... not surprised but disappointed by the very stubborn and obdurate reaction we encountered in Belgrade,

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