Sentences with phrase «times chagrin»

To promoter Cedric Kushner's surprise, and at times chagrin, Manfredy insists on the toughest fights available, taking Mayweather instead of an easier and equally lucrative rematch with Gatti.

Not exact matches

All the while, he continued gaming in his free time, much to the chagrin of his parents.

WattzOn (wattzon.com) will possibly one day become a thriving business — you can easily imagine companies licensing the technology to analyze their business footprint — but in the meantime, it's a free online tool that spits out detailed analyses that, in Griffith's case, not only caused him to give up driving but also to forgo imported wine, cancel his beloved New York Times subscription (to the continued chagrin of his wife), and ditch his dryer for a clothesline that ticked off his landlord.

And if Jesus were to be walking the earth today, I don't think he'd be spending a lot of time in any church, much to the chagrin of many.

Much to the chagrin of several New York Pols like Steve Levy, Governor Paterson (for a short time), and of course, Jimmy McMillan, a Florida firefighter has won the Moustached American of the Year.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo called special elections (much to the chagrin of the good government advocates and the New York Times) to run concurrent with the Sept. 13 primary to fill six vacant Assembly seats and the House seat formerly held by ex-Rep.

There's one location in the cutest little town of Chagrin Falls (a suburb of Cleveland) and I used to make my friends go all the time in high school.

A friend of mine calls me a one - woman musical as I sing and dance around all the time (half to her chagrin and half to her amusement lol).

Arcade Fire proved to us with Reflektor that they weren't afraid to shake it up, and much to the chagrin of many long - time fans, they doubled - down on the LCD Soundsystem influenced indie disco / funk sound that James Murphy helped them create before.

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.

-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.

This time around Stu (Ed Helms) is getting married, the wedding with his bride - to - be (Jamie Chung) will be in Bangkok in deference to her parents, and along for the ride are Phil (Bradley Cooper), Doug (Justin Bartha), and much to Stu's chagrin, Alan (Zach Galifianakis).

In South Korea, critics of the film have expressed chagrin at Miyazaki's elision of the role of forced Korean labor in building the state - of - the - art military aircraft this movie showcases, at times, with something like romantic nostalgia.

When she hits him again, for real this time, she invites Bill to recuperate with Sue at her penthouse, to the chagrin of her domineering boyfriend (John Getz, doing his unctuous routine), who isn't jealous but instead offended that Grey would fraternize with people in a lower economic tier.

The undercurrent of chagrin in a few of the young ladies in the crowd is captured with a pole - axing amount of skill by Franco — possibly the only time in the director's career (save a few similar moments in Venus in Furs) that he treats women as complex — and sympathetic — human beings.

Based on the books «Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World's Most Dangerous Website» and «WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy,» and penned by Josh Singer («The West Wing,» «Fringe «-RRB-, the film will present Assange as a whistleblower who apparently let power get to his head and let the ethics of his work slide, much to the chagrin of his right hand man Daniel Domscheit - Berg (Bruhl), who also just happened to write that «Inside Julian Assange» book.

Fascinated by the contraptions she sees on the mainland, she decides to use her newfound free time exploring the area, much to cynical fairy Vidia's chagrin.

But there's a problem: it's the 70s, which means it's time to «diversify» and, much to our hero's chagrin (and confusion), that's not a word meaning a type of large wooden boat.

Shane (Fazion Love) is still having a hard time with his divorce and tries to make up for it by dating Trudy (Kali Hawk), a 20 - year - old party girl who calls Shane «daddy,» much to his chagrin.

While interested parties such as the Society of Authors feel like the government is taking steps in the right direction, they are somewhat chagrined by the lengthy wait time before this is implemented.

No matter how many times Ahmed explained who Osiris or Isis was, my father would ask again, much to his chagrin.

At the time the most important art journal of France, L'Artiste, in its issue of March 12, 1848, extolled the «genius of liberty» which had revived «the eternal flames of art» (obviously it had been less effective in reviving the rhetorical power of its writers), and the next week, Clément de Ris, writing in the same periodical, while slightly chagrined by the mediocrity of the first «liberated» Salon, nevertheless maintained that «in the realm of art, as in that of morals, social thought and politics, barriers are falling and the horizon is expanding.»

Socially Engaged Art Enters the Museum — Randy Kennedy surveys how this increasingly visible brand of art, championed by organizations like Creative Time (and owing its foundation to a long list of predecessors, from Hans Haacke and Gordon Matta - Clark to many artists in Latin America in the»70s — a fact that goes unmentioned), is being embraced by art institutions, to the chagrin of some more traditional art types.

1) Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984, pp. 166 — 176 2 Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, Routledge, New York, 1992, pp. 52 — 54 3 Philip Nobel, «Sign of the Times», Artforum, January 2003 4 Benjamin H. Bratton, «Mind the Pollocks: (Notes on) Art & Software», August 2009, http://ow.ly/R3fYT 5 Pepe Karmel, Jackson Pollock: Interviews, Articles, and Reviews, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1999, p. 164 6 Matt Saunders, «To Everyone's Chagrin», Texte Zur Kunst, Issue 71, September 2008 7 Jori Finkel, «Sculptor Thomas Houseago's Shape - Shifting World», Los Angeles Times, 2 January 2011 8 David Geers, «Neo-Modern», October, vol.

We are getting to that time of the summer, where London gets a sporting focus for a few weeks, much to the chagrin of locals who probably get enough tourism as it is.

Transavanguardia not only reintroduced figurative painting into the predominantly Minimalist and Conceptual scene of the period, but proposed devices like allegory and mythology as valid strategies in contemporary art discourse, much to the chagrin of the art - world establishment at the time.

Actually I do put my money where my mouth is, (to my broker's chagrin) and I sold my Chesapeake shares some time ago.

I did find this on MySpace: «I have been spending time working on my hobbies, and figuring out how the weather really works, much to the chagrin of the camp of modeling based forecasters.»

The Cubs somehow pulled that off, to the chagrin of Nats» manager Dusty Baker who was dying watching it, seemingly for the first time in the history of the sport.

Despite much chagrin at the location of the fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S8, Samsung didn't have time to change the position for the Galaxy Note 8.

We didn't quite have the time to put that claim to the test, but the handset seemed to have no trouble changing the channels on Digital Trends» office televisions (much to the chagrin of the editorial staff).

Well, most of the time that is true, however, much to our chagrin, we are human after all.

«Betrayal» is often the resolute spouse's chagrined realization that a truly «collaborative alliance» (Schnarch, 2002) hasn't existed in the relationship for some time.

To my chagrin, I learned that they had a very sophisticated protocol and the «hello» was to make the business sound like they were a small - time operation.

He checks in with the office several times a day — much to the chagrin of his family, who want him to be fully engaged in the holiday at hand.