Word: crestfallen
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...matter that Shatner, in the sketch, quickly recanted, telling the crestfallen Trekkies that his outburst was, of course, a re-creation of "the evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 37. The put-down was like a phaser to the heart. Trekkies (or Trekkers, as many prefer to be called these days) have always existed in something of a parallel universe of TV viewing. They're the ones who can debate for hours the merits of the episode in which Mr. Spock mind-melded with a bloblike alien called the Horta, or the one where Captain Kirk time-traveled back...
...overtime period held little suspense except for a last-gasp three-point attempt by junior James White, as Colgate sprinted out to a quick lead and held off the crestfallen Crimson...
...which makes the male members among us a little crestfallen. Sure, we go to Harvard and will probably lead happy successful lives. But do we freeze well...
Delgado was crestfallen. "We have all been conned," he admitted. "If everything you say is true, I'll look the fool." Indeed...
...outsiders exaggerate it: the boastful, cocksure Gascon whose fellow provincials are defined in Rostand's play as "free fighters, free lovers, free spenders, defenders of old homes, old names and old splendors . . . bragging of crests , and pedigrees." Yet now it seems that the rooster, the national symbol, is crestfallen...