Sentences with phrase «how exasperating»

If you've ever unpacked your child's lunch box at the end of the school day only to find that most of the lunch you packed was hardly touched, you know how exasperating it can be.
I can remember how exasperated I got with Pip in Great Expectations, for instance.

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She added: «Waiting for subways and buses is particularly exasperating when we have no idea how long the delay will be.»
This was exasperated recently when I was discussing the case of how most investors misunderstand how it can actually be good over the long - run to change a company's capitalization structure to replace equity with debt by borrowing funds on a long - term, low - cost, fixed - rate basis to repurchase stock, lowering the total count of outstanding shares.
We all tend to remember the last 69 games and the playoffs and forget just how underwhelming and downright exasperating they were before that.
It sounds as though the 71 - year old is almost as exasperated and confused by Wenger's transfer policy as we Arsenal fans are and that highlights just how far from the common thinking our manager is.
So Pop and the guys are little resentful / exasperated because they all feel like they've gone through similar situations before (like Parker) and because, in Pop's case, he's disappointed that Kawhi doesn't trust him enough even after how many years of encouraging / developing / supporting him (not to mention the team's established track record when it comes to protecting players)..
Although we do not have the best squad in the league, this is exasperated by our manager's lack of skill and know how.
i can see wot you mean ice, there all like minded and all the same type player, evenin how easily they get injured, its mad... but im not sure where we would put def minded players in a system that has served us wel thus far, i just think the players we hav did nt work hard enough to getbehind the ball yesterday and alot of it was left to song whod been on intern duty and had travelled halfway round the world to get home, like i said i was hugely dissapointed with nasri, ros and ramsey who i felt did nt put in a shift worthy of beating such a resolute opponent, even AW was exasperated after the game and offered no excuse just that you cant expect to win games / leagues on this performance... when we go down i these games its always the same, with a whimper... there were 15 mins left when we conceded and you could be sure utd and chelsea woulda got their equaliser but we simply cant re-raise our game when wer only going through the motions in these games
It's awe - inspiring, frustrating, and exasperating how quickly babies grow and change.
How is it that we so excited that our child is bright, yet when they do something that is «helpful» they are being naughty and we find ourselves exasperated?!?! Sunday was one of those days!
Moms who have toddlers or children who cling to them in unfamiliar environments often become exasperated by this behaviour and it even intensifies when other moms comment on it or when she notices how easily all the other children are happy to leave their moms side and enter the fun.
After the flight, I thanked him profusely, telling him how kind he was to this exasperated traveling mom.
For all the (often, exasperated) talk about how «parents these days» are raising «kids these days» to be spoiled, unruly brats, many parents of our generation are actually succeeding at what researchers have found is the most effective parenting style: authoritative parenting.
Dear Exasperated Mom, I know how you feel.
Defence spokesman Nick Harvey said: «It is exasperating to learn how pervasive the culture of denial and deception among MoD officials is when it comes to acknowledging the # 21 billion funding gap in defence procurement.
Howie Hawkins will conduct a truth telling press conference and offer to give Cuomo a pedal powered tour of his Syracuse neighborhood to see first hand how Cuomo's policies are exasperating inequality.
«Given how much No 10 clearly loathed Gove's principal adviser at the time and were as exasperated as I was by his occasional public outbursts, this didn't seem to come as much of a surprise to Cameron,» Clegg writes.
And scientists — exasperated by the blank stares that usually greet their enthusiastic statements, such as «Doesn't it just blow your mind how polypeptides fold their way through zillions of possible permutations in microseconds?»
The first article in this two - part series described how even Albert Einstein — acting like a typically uncommunicative scientist — exasperated his wife, Elsa, by ducking her requests for a layman's explanation of his research.
It's a dizzying experience that's equal parts entertaining and exasperating, which is also how I would describe social media in...
It will be less exasperating if you know how to read and weed out unsuitable men's profiles.
How can you tell for sure without There is nothing more exasperating in the world of dating than a guy who seems really interested, but then also maybe not... but then yes... but no again.
They're all desperate, agitated harpies and relentless sources of internal and external conflict in «Third Person,» writer - director Paul Haggis» exasperating multistory drama about how hard it is for a nice, quiet, sensitive guy to be left alone to...
When Willoughby asks what's going on, an exasperated Dixon exclaims: «Sheriff, she asked me how the nigger torturing business was going, and I said you can't say nigger torturing business anymore, you got ta say peoples of color torturing.»
Depending on how nostalgic you are for that time period, Robespierre's own rosy - colored perspective will either charm or exasperate.
Several sequences are well executed and transcendently comic, like the old - fashioned musical number that introduces Channing Tatum's character or a lengthy sketch in which an increasingly exasperated Fiennes attempts to teach Ehrenreich how to enunciate a line.
The Bad Girls of Film Noir are hanging out in a separate entry (visit them over here) but there are plenty of other releases this week, not the least of which is the Coen Bros.'s A Serious Man (Universal), a serious (and seriously funny) meditation on little themes like the meaning of life and why are we here and how can we know God's purpose, and is as funny, heartbreaking, questioning, trying, exasperating and sincerely inquisitive a portrait of the human condition as you'll find on screen.
How else to explain its increasingly exasperating collapse into scene after scene that extols Mitty's, and by extension Stiller's own, heroic goodness?
In addition, most Americans are exasperated at the seemingly endless reports of how our students» performance pales before that of their international peers.
Eloquently exasperated, Smart threw an image of «the long publishing pipeline» up onto the stage's magenta - framed screen and said: «I don't know about you, but this is sometimes how it feels when I look ahead to the commitments we've made for new books.
It's exasperating for me, mind - boggling really, how difficult it has been to get anyone to take me up on these offers.
The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know — Your Kids by Paul Raeburn and Kevin Zollman (Macmillan / Scientific American / FSG; Blackstone Audio; OverDrive Sample) combines the insight of a father of five with the expertise of an academic to offer ways to help parents game their kid's most common and exasperating behaviors, such a lying, fighting, and not doing what they were told.
I could see how someone might find that a little exasperating («Yes, we get it!
I watch the exasperated faces of Hannah the Beagle's guardians as they tell me how cruelly their beloved dog suffers when she's left alone.
Many dog owners get exasperated with how their puppies greet guests.
That problem — * exasperated sigh * — is this: if the RSPB is really concerned about the potential disturbance to wildlife of a few noisy lorries and drill rigs (which, let's not forget, are only up for a short period, after which they are replaced by a silent extraction device called a Christmas tree), how come it's so cheerfully complacent about the epic numbers of rare birds and protected bats which are sliced and diced (or, in the case of bats, barotraumatised — i.e. made to implode) by the industrial wind turbines which the RSPB not only champions but from which it benefits financially.
I'd be reassured to see climate modellers hammering on how detailed interesting regularities in experimental data (existing or wished - for) are explained or predicted by their model: something like the (honestly exasperated) way biologists refer to all the megabytes of detail revealed by DNA sequencing and other molecular biology which just keeps matching the constraints of Darwin's model.
Rather than getting exasperated, you can learn what their triggers are and how to best respond to make them feel loved and supported.
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