Sentences with word «exasperation»

One good - government advocate called this a «disingenuous deflection» after the Silver verdict, and on Friday, NYPIRG executive director Blair Horner betrayed a bit of exasperation in yet another call for change.

As this year's State of Preschool marks 14 years of tracking state government support for preschool education, I find myself citing Keynes in exasperation with the slow pace of government intervention.

Meanwhile, their daughter (Naomi Watts) sidles up to an art dealer (Antonio Banderas) out of exasperation with her husband (Josh Brolin), a failed novelist who's also doing a little flirting.

If you sell when you're angry, you can imagine everybody else who sells that way reaches the point of exasperation at exactly the same time.

- has frequently expressed exasperation with with the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority, and the new system imposed in the wake of the MPs» expenses scandal.

I had never forgotten about the idea but kind of pushed it to the back of my mind out of exasperation from coming up with nothing in all of my searches (I am typically pretty good at finding things online).

My bestie pretty much shakes his head in exasperation as he explains the Euro match timetable, and how the winners are chosen, every single week.

Pornographers and young - adult novelists alike would slap their foreheads in exasperation over Jack & Diane, the dreamy, abstract art movie writer - director Bradley Rust Gray made from the ripely commercial premise of a teenage lesbian werewolf romance.

Ronaldo, as we know, is one of the greatest attacking agents the game has ever seen but, he would often show bouts of exasperation on the pitch at Mourinho's tactics when playing for him.

The tolerance had been increasingly replaced by exasperation, amid an overflow of migrants and failure by authorities to deal with the crisis.

If you've been reading long enough you're probably used to my end - of - season whine fest and how quickly I throw myself into the next season out of sheer exasperation over the last.

Doheny added that he and Giuliani share exasperation at the Democrats» policies that have «squandered trillions in tax dollars, rung up the largest deficit in history, and created a bleak landscape for small business owners.»

The unusually strong performance of US stocks in 2013 was a welcome surprise for investors who are following a simple buy - and - hold strategy and a source of exasperation for many professionals caught flatfooted by the steady rise in share prices.

he recently asked in exasperation after one such disputed ruling.

Exploring the five love languages, the numerous different ways to give and receive, and the twelve distinct types of intimacy can all help us move from exasperation about not getting our needs met to learning to incorporate a variety of ways to fulfill our own needs, and those of our partners.

Conservatives won that battle by maintaining an even keel and avoiding outrage, if not exasperation.

I know I sigh in exasperation when we're far past nap time, but you're still lagging behind with the kids to take in all of the sights and sounds together.

Given the forced enthusiasm that frequently shades into exasperation and even disgust, Cassavetes» Staccato is one swaggering step away from being a crank or perhaps stalking off the set.

When the 50 full - time employee mandate goes into effect next year, Plakans says, he expects to see a lot more exasperation from business owners.

Out of exasperation towards fashion's wasteful practices and a dedication to positive social and environmental change, design veterans Genevieve Saylak and Corissa Santos are raising industry standards with their beautiful label Where Mountains Meet.

They know they've been parachuted into the middle of a small war that has less to do with the principle of gay marriage than with Labour's fear that Fine Gael was stealing a march, plus the media's growing exasperation with the Taoiseach's reluctance to answer questions about anything.

But even as the crowd roared their approval and the former first lady threw up her hands in mock exasperation, several dozen people exited the hotel ballroom once Clinton finished speaking and Cuomo took the microphone.

«As publishers and agents have started to realize with exasperation today, a number of titles in the Kindle Lending Library program — including some of the bestselling, prominently - promoted titles on the program's home page — are part of this new initiative without the consent or affirmative participation of the publishers and rights holders.

«It's like herding cats», is an expression of exasperation often used when something's almost impossible.

I, too, am torn between feeling empathy for parents who want a more child - friendly world and utter exasperation over the self - absorption shown by the «my kid can -LSB-...]

Shadow Europe minister Mark Francois said yesterday Mr Miliband was «evasive in answering detailed questions» and caused exasperation among the committee members.

The emails hinted at a mutual exasperation between the Miliband and Balls offices, although at nothing like the level of the open warfare during Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's time in office.

He gave me that «look» that teenagers have perfected and said (with great exasperation) «Mom, I want to play the game.»

Voicing exasperation with what he called the homogeneous hue of the financial sector, Mr. Stringer demanded that investment funds hire more women and nonwhite employees, starting with the city's youths.

We hear Blake's mounting exasperation as he's required to answer a series of clueless and robotic questions, all of which fail to get at the heart of the issue — that being his heart, of course.

There's also the overly antagonistic Biff, who manages to torment Marty in every time period he travels to, or Marty and Doc's perpetual trouble in repairing the DeLorean after it has been damaged, but none of these tribulations produce the same exasperation as when Marty is confronted by his teenage mother.

Shannon has played many frightening, volatile villains in the past — and frightening, volatile protagonists, for that matter — but here, he opts to be a buffoon, mumbling and ranting in hilarious exasperation every time Gordon - Levitt gives him the slip.

Further exasperation for viewers occurs when some characters end up in the film having never been introduced at all, distracting enjoyment from the tale in trying to figure out who these people are and where they all came from.

«Matt Damon is a constant churn of gee - whiz earnestness, righteous indignation, nervous exasperation and self - aggrandizing swagger as Whitacre,» I wrote.

Instead of letting herself be overcome with total exasperation at her daughter, Frieda turned a potentially difficult moment around completely.

Our protagonist is a quick - witted hellion but one that we find ourselves drawn to with his understandable exasperation with all the follies of normal gaming conventions.

In this article, we will consider how Fay and Cline's parenting approach really mimics biblical principles that God uses with all of us to help us grow without exasperation.

He may react in several ways, but one that leads to trouble is the sigh of exasperation followed by «It's perfectly sunny out.

An expression of tender exasperation briefly clenched his brows.

Following a particularly naive question from this reporter, one of them betrayed exasperation.

It found exasperation with the political and administrative class speaking in a different language to the rest of us.

Kristen Wiig's default mode of defeated exasperation sets the tone for Berman and Pulcini's slow - footed comedy about an out - of - work, loveless New York playwright who's forced to move back in with her wacky mother (Annette Bening) after a fake suicide attempt.

But don't pull out your hair in exasperation yet.

His pompous exasperation telling a parent to «control your young» is a snarky delight.