Sentences with phrase «bit chagrined»

Many jobseekers are a little bit chagrined to talk openly about their need for employment, especially during this festive season — but being withdrawn about it can lead to some missed networking opportunities.

At first, I was a bit chagrined to see that the Vista San Gabriel Elementary School library in Southern California had banned Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Despite all of my studious efforts as a feminist, sex - positive parent — giving ample guidance to my teenage daughter and even writing articles on the topic — I was a bit chagrined by this disconnect between myself and my son.

In a final irony, the retired organ tuner who had serviced the instrument during Dr. Sowerby's tenure was introduced to the audience, looking a bit chagrined as though he would have liked to climb up into the organ chambers and correct a few pitches.

Not exact matches

Novitiate (***) The plotline for this religiously themed film seems a bit dated and might have been more controversial if released in the 1960s: A wayward adolescent (Margaret Qualley) turns to the Catholic church for solace, to the chagrin of her agnostic mother (Julianne Nicholson).

The recent batch of horror is left to a passing mention of «torture porn» (by a character in one of the movies within this one (or perhaps the movie within that one)-RRB-, while remakes and rebooted franchises earn a bit more of Williamson's chagrin.

However, Shiner is also a bit of an expensive handful, and Riggan has a lot of other stressors to worry about, such as the replaced actor who is threatening to sue them, much to the chagrin of his lawyer (Zach Galifinakis).