Sentences with phrase «chagrin about»

Schumer has publicly expressed chagrin about the measure, saying he supports the rights of same - sex couples but also doesn't want to see Republicans walk away from the overall bill over that amendment — something Democrats in the «Gang of Eight» working on the immigration bill believe would happen.

Aspiring gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, for example, can't be too chagrined about a Paterson scandal story that, like Cuomo himself, is gaining momentum by running just under the surface.

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Ephemerality is the point: Unlike other social networks — where content lives forever, sometimes to the chagrin of users — Snapchat is all about the now.

If you tuned into a talk by Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, at the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C., this week, you might think the NSA had begun to change its tune about encryption — the technology favored by Apple and its Silicon Valley brethren to scramble users» data and communications (much to criminal investigators» chagrin), making them unintelligible to spies and hackers alike.

Unfortunately, I'd neglected to check my Ohio driver's license until recently and to my chagrin I found that it had expired... about a year ago.

Okay, this isn't really called poop bread, but that's what I call it (to the chagrin of my husband, because you know how he feels about my potty mouth).

Rahm, for his part, was chagrined by the situation but believes it was a big to - do about not much at all.

While she was growing up, people would comment about it — much to my chagrin.

To my chagrin, my firstborn still has difficulty knowing when she needs to pee, though she is compliant about going when instructed to do so.

For the record, here's what Paterson had to say about borrowing just last week, insisting he had never ruled it out, altogether, but was chagrined that it had become the focus of discussion (thanks, of course, to his hand - picked LG, Richard Ravitch):

I've learned a thing or two over the last few months about hoodwinking / cajoling readers into looking at blog pages, much to their chagrin, and Monday's blogging bootcamp really got me thinking about how to do it in a systematic way.

And while the charges stem in part from evidence uncovered by the Moreland Commission — which Mr. Cuomo shuttered early, much to the chagrin of good government types and prompting an investigation from Mr. Bharara — the governor today said he had no regrets about ending the corruption - busting panel when he did.

Tara seems to be making progress with her new contract but Dr. Hattaras discovers something disturbing in a tape from one her therapy sessions; much to the sisters» chagrin, Neil invites Tara and Charmaine's mother to visit her grandchild; Max is unhappy at his new job but can't talk to Tara about it; Kate is surprised when a handsome flyer rebuffs her flirting.

-RRB- Romantic comedy about a reformed playboy (Skylar Austin) who decides it's time to find his soul mate and settle down, much to the chagrin of the womanizers (Dayo Okeniyi, Chad Michael Murray and Kenny Wormald) with whom he shares a bachelor pad.

Sheen thought it was very funny, which provided Kapelos a small amount of relief from the chagrin he had felt about the incident since it happened.

Keyhole (R for sexuality, violence, profanity and graphic nudity) Surrealistic crime saga about a Prodigal mob boss» (Jason Patric) nostalgic return home where he proceeds to reminisce while slowly searching the premises for his wife (Isabella Rossellini), much to the chagrin of his impatient henchmen waiting downstairs with a drowning victim (Brooke Palsson) and a bound - and - gagged hostage (David Wontner).

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).

On the surface «monster movie» is about a lonely young woman who strikes up an unlikely relationship with a mysterious sea creature — much to the chagrin of the devious government agents in charge of its captivity.

Danny and Jean set about organizing a Meyerowitz retrospective at Bard, where Eliza is a freshman (making hilarious, Ryan Trecartin - tinged art pornos to the chagrin of her surrounding adults), and where Harold taught for many years.

Two Men in Town (R for profanity) Unlikely - buddies drama, set in New Mexico, about the friendship forged between a Muslim ex-con (Forest Whitaker) and his idealistic parole officer (Brenda Blethyn), much to the chagrin of a border town sheriff (Harvey Keitel).

The film focuses on the Herculean efforts of pastor Jay Reinke, who has turned his church into a makeshift home base for the new arrivals — to the chagrin of the facility's neighbours, who are skeptical about the men's scruffy appearance and possible criminal backgrounds, and the open hostility of the town newspaper, which wages war on Reinke's new congregation by publishing a list of former sex offenders harboured in the church as well as in the pastor's own home.

Much to the faculty's chagrin, the girls were not philosophizing about Homer or discussing Euclidian geometry.

It is not available on Amazon yet, much to the chagrin of people who heard really positive things about it.

There have been many books about school shootings lately much to my chagrin, but Zach is a special character whose voice has a lot to teach us all.

Though online activity may offer the illusion of anonymity and impermanence — of a malleable realm where we can throw caution to the Vonnegut and not care how careful we are about who we pretend to be — everything leaves a footprint, as anyone who's ever requested their tweet archive has no doubt discovered to their chagrin.

There was definitely a note of chagrin in their confession that just a couple of years ago, the best place for a person to learn about ebooks in the Cincinnati area was the local Barnes & Noble, not the library.

The editors at Climate Resistance have written an interesting article about the «Well funded «Well - funded - Denial - Machine» Denial Machine», which details Greenpeace's chagrin on finding that other organizations are lobbying as vigorously as they are, and that these counter-lobbyists actually have funding!

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.

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During the last four decades I have observed, with some chagrin, an increase in complaints about agents who are not exercising their due diligence and who are exhibiting a lack of professionalism.

«It's about making the children comfortable in their last months,» says Michelle DeGulis, vice president and manager of the 70 - agent Howard Hanna Real Estate Services office in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, about 25 miles outside of Cleveland.