Sentences with phrase «great chagrin»

From 1953 on down my family has become these things religiously and ethnically: Lutheran, Jewish, Anglican, Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, German, Polish, English, Irish, Aboriginal, Italian, Filipino, and to my great chagrin we are Scottish as well (just kidding Martha).

We only just discovered to our great chagrin that we should been measuring deep ocean temperatures for the last century so we missed a essential component of the picture.

This film is just plain scary and that's not a compliment I'm able to pay many horror films of late, much to my great chagrin.

I realized, with great chagrin, that I didn't make it to a single beach day this summer; not one.

After being in a Calvinist church for over a decade, and witnessing person after person and family after family leaving the church in a more broken condition than which they came, including several divorces, one woman abandoning her family to become a sex slave, and many rejecting the faith altogether, I discovered, to my great chagrin, that it had taken a toll on my family as well.

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It is a foreign fabrication that the Indians have ignorantly adopted much to the chagrin of the great gurus of the Vedic systems.

Well I just got ta know where you found a great paleo pancake recipe... I'm on paleo for over 30 days now and I've tried two different pancake recipes much to my chagrin: -LRB-

And for some, who have great genetics, they just bounce without even trying, much to the chagrin of others who struggle so.

Paterson said both he and Dolan are «chagrined and are feeling a great deal of pain over what we see is a continually smoldering issue that is setting New Yorkers against each other.»

I have a few scratches in the jar now because it is plastic, but otherwise, it is still working great, and I use it almost every day (much to Dan's chagrin).

Alexander spends a great deal of time there — taking in the culture claiming its riches and marrying a Bactrian princess Roxane (Rosario Dawson)-- much to the chagrin of his Macedonian generals who are stuck in this foreign land with their king.

When I made «Admission,» I did notice with a great deal of chagrin that I hadn't made a movie with a female protagonist before.

Much to the chagrin of fish, their dried bladders (formally known as isinglass) make for a great filter to accelerate the clarification of beer.