Having to reason with a human and persuade her by the subterfuge of logic was exasperating. |
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I took many exasperating telephone calls from the press during my time in Downing Street, but one in particular sticks in my mind. |
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After almost thirty years exasperating the Left, he now turned to enraging the Right. |
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Penelope purposefully marched into the throng of suitors, looking for the familiar and somewhat exasperating figure. |
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From the beginning, they had serious differences of opinions that caused exasperating conflict. |
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The most profound meditation only leads to an exasperating sense of impotence. |
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He was competitive, outspoken, a loner often exasperating to those who did not see things his way. |
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What was once enigmatically mesmerising in this kind of modish Iranian movie is now redundant and exasperating. |
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It was a rousing affair, moving, positively exasperating, and alone would make for a concert not to be missed. |
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There was nothing more exasperating than the snug puss of my Dublin work colleague as he entered the office the morning after. |
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The next 10 weeks would be the most exasperating and thrilling of my entire journalistic career. |
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His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms. |
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Nowhere, perhaps, is this as exasperating as in the terrible continuation of massive hunger and undernourishment in India. |
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You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes. |
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To see it in action was not only exasperating, but also extremely dissatisfying. |
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What you have to do with a book, a simple, obvious, exasperating difficult thing, is, read it. |
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Singh's affairs with his putter, in all its guises, have been exasperating. |
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Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons. |
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From a historian's perspective, aspects of Paton's presentist writing style are exasperating. |
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It's always more complicated than that, as annoying people are known to say with exasperating regularity. |
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There are no more exasperating things that a neighbour can do than play dance music very loud. |
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His Blair-type zeal took rotation, rotation, rotation to the most exasperating degree. |
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But for most of us, it will be the low point of an incredibly exasperating week. |
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Our common practice is to allow tension to grow under our own heedlessness till it presses upon us with exasperating force, and then we blow up. |
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Many MPs we spoke to found the entire exercise exasperating and even absurd. |
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Such targets, considered against the background of the existing development needs, are in themselves truly exasperating. |
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The rebels have promised to unite, but their squabbling has been exasperating. |
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Speed bumps definitely do make you slow down, and taxi drivers take sadistic pleasure in exasperating their passengers by coming almost to a halt in front of them. |
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Everyone pleaded with the rebels and refugees camped in the warehouse, but they refused to leave, exasperating the Ugandan and Congolese authorities here. |
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In this incredibly complex and sometimes exasperating health services delivery system, what are the first areas that need attention? |
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Personally, I find the meta conspiracy approach a bit exasperating. |
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Palmer's inability to reach a synthesis in almost any area of his life is what makes him exasperating. |
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Education, then, becomes an exasperating game of constant catchup. |
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The plan was recently judged by another inspector to conform with Government policy and it is exasperating to see other inspectors failing to uphold it. |
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The determination to never speak ill can be exasperating for a reporter. |
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There have been sessions that have been exasperating for us all. |
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It was an exasperating experience of continually losing my place. |
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I've got to say, this is the most exasperating interview I've ever had. |
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Instead of thinking he is insane, she thinks he is exasperating. |
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That problem co-worker or exasperating boss could be costing your organization more in extended health care costs. |
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Mr Arafat comes over as an impossible ditherer, exasperating even to his comrades. |
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After four exasperating months and 12 attempts, the African wild dog is perfect. |
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While exasperating his own side, Gingrich was fascinated by the 42nd president. |
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Travel, even under the most favourable of circumstances, can often be trying and even exasperating. |
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It was exasperating, it was humiliating but, I am ashamed to admit it today, it was also somewhat flattering. |
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Jackson ultimately abided by his contract, but Vitale remembered publishing the book as an exasperating experience. |
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Raising teens and tweens can seem like an overwhelming, exasperating and thankless job at times. |
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The tactically-limited truthfulness and sheer subterfuge that we meet in every aspect of the Gravel story is exasperating. |
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The search for new treatments can be exasperating. |
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And Ms. Burstyn, who has found the uneasiness beneath surface serenity again and again in film, combines a beatific glow with an exasperating, masochistic shadowiness that brings complexity to the idea of saintliness. |
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He turned his life into an experiment in classlessness, and the intensity of his commitment to that experiment was the main reason that his friends and colleagues found him a perverse and sometimes exasperating man. |
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What could be better, for his purposes, than a boss with eyes only for the football field, who dismissed him as an exasperating, impulsive knucklehead? |
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It often proves to be an opportunity for women to dwell on personal frustrations about their own body, while the level of comfort offered in the fitting room and the overall service in the store can be exasperating. |
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The play is about coal, fury, fire, families, friends, politics, betrayal, loyalty, sacrifice, guilt, bad behaviour and the beautiful, difficult, stonkingly exasperating country we are living in today. |
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George Papandreou had already quit in Greece, also handing over to a caretaker administration, after exasperating the big EU powers by trying to call a referendum on the terms of Greece's bailout. |
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They like to point out, too, that America has abandoned them before, cutting aid and military support when Soviet forces left Afghanistan at the end of the 1980s. Still, Pakistan is exasperating. |
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Since then, he has become a fierce and, for the prime minister, exasperating champion of the legislature, while appearing to slip rapidly leftward. |
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There is clearly an assessment of whether they have been rehabilitated, or have been model prisoners, or there were victim impact issues, or there were other exasperating circumstances. |
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And that brings us to what our Conservative friends find so exasperating. |
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I find it somewhat exasperating to hear talk of a colonialist mind-set. |
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Passengers on delayed trains from neighbouring countries, which mainly get into difficulty at night, are increasingly given a rough deal, and land up in an exasperating web of confusion. |
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There is nothing more exasperating for educated people in the society of the uneducated than this restriction of conversation by the limitation of their mental world. |
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Although it may be somewhat exasperating to see that diasporas are so broadly seen as good in some parts of the policy world and as bad in others, it is certainly not surprising. |
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The New Zealand international endured an exasperating FIFA Confederations Cup in June and, unfortunately for North Queensland Fury, he took his frustration out on them by inspiring a thumping 5-0 win for Gold Coast United. |
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Then, a few weeks later, it fell prey to the most exasperating kind of problem: an intermittent computer glitch that afflicted the backup control system. |
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The process of conveying the views of the People's Summits has been an exasperating process for the leaders of SAP-I. On two occasions when the SAP-I has met the SAARC Summit has been cancelled. |
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This prize is, for me, fantastically obtuse, exasperating and dumb. |
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But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact. |
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