| The control scheme makes it frustratingly easy to accidentally walk across the wrong tile. |
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| On the other hand, he's frustratingly comfortable recycling from his old kit bag of tricks. |
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| Anderson comes close to masterpiece territory here, but falls frustratingly short. |
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| The old problems persisted, and efforts to locate funds continued at a frustratingly slow pace. |
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| However, several strands are left untied, or, more frustratingly, are only flimsily tied to the main story. |
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| Information regarding the death is, at present, sketchy, with the police report being frustratingly vague. |
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| It satisfies people who watch television in the frustratingly vain hope that they might happen across something new. |
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| And the most frustratingly time-consuming and boring job, one which I really loath, is shaving. |
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| Indeed, and frustratingly, I am not sure that biologists have any good evidence that rogue foxes are a real phenomenon. |
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| He is the personification of eclecticism which results in a frustratingly mixed qualitative output. |
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| He's a fascinating character, albeit a frustratingly incoherent one when the copious drugs he takes are in full flow. |
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| But the car shows its age with a distinct lack of storage space and frustratingly fiddly stereo controls. |
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| Also, frustratingly for those who use multiple machines, the list of favourites is tied to a particular machine. |
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| If this week's world appears frustratingly elusive or evasive, you're not wrong. |
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| Most frustratingly from the perspective of modern feminism, the concept of real choice for women gets completely glossed over. |
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| They were frustratingly denied by late deflections or timely interventions. |
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| What he does for a living is intensely private and frustratingly protracted. |
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| The singer's formidable skills are frustratingly wasted on this trite, piano-backed piece. |
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| However, it is not frustratingly challenging and you will soon find yourself moving on in the game. |
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| It becomes frustratingly obvious as the record plays, however, that the musical accompaniment is designed to be just that. |
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| All through the film, the focus remains on the police officers, with the murderer remaining frustratingly elusive. |
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| In both traditions it is undefinable and unexplainable, elusive, frustratingly near and far, always so close yet just outside intellect's reach. |
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| She paradoxically and frustratingly proposes to achieve hybridized ends by deploying means that are less variegated than they need to be. |
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| The movie hints that there is more to him than first appears but frustratingly leaves it at that. |
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| Somewhat frustratingly they do show the occasional flash of inspiration, generally during their less frequent slower numbers. |
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| Dante's terza rima is frustratingly hard to get right in English, and many translators have nearly gone mad trying to get it right. |
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| This too-brief song offers a dense mix and meaty beat that frustratingly trails off without going anywhere. |
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| It is certainly a film with its longueurs, and is often frustratingly opaque. |
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| Where economic growth, industrial modernization and productivity are concerned, however, progress was frustratingly slow. |
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| Her public statements often convey a frustratingly general commitment to constitutionalism and democracy in a language easily understood by the mass of the population. |
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| On some tracks, the lyrics become frustratingly indecipherable. |
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| There were so many excellent things therein to admire but I still felt that, frustratingly, it didn't touch me where it had to and capture my emotions. |
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| But mostly, the songs glide past without really registering, glossy but frustratingly insubstantial. |
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| It's a tough grind: without the safety net of an overarching storyline, these kind of narratives often feel frustratingly disjointed. |
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| Simply being young does not guarantee immunity from the frustratingly crusty decisions of a stereotypical fogy. |
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| For the shiftworking nurse it is often illusive, frustratingly short, and often leaves her more tired than she was before she went to sleep. |
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| That said, his answers to a number of questions were frustratingly slippery. |
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| But while change is still frustratingly slow, we are at least inching – albeit stubbornly and at times uncertainly – in the right direction. |
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| Desdemona also claims that she knew Iago was lying, but she leaves that assertion frustratingly underexplored. |
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| Only having a Saturday to look for the bed, sofa, television, sideboard, desk, curtains, lamps, rugs and tables that we needed proved frustratingly restrictive. |
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| The apparently deep relationships between Aaron and Hugh or between Hugh and Becky remain superficial, the minor characters frustratingly sketchy. |
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| This is a real breath of fresh air on our kitchen counter, since we've had to put up with a variety of frustratingly contrary pepper mills for quite a while. |
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| If MS affects your mood control, you may find your anger levels rising when memory fails or simple tasks become frustratingly difficult. |
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| However, the process of arriving at agreements through negotiation can be difficult and frustratingly slow, to both observers and participants. |
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| For the nearly 600 MPs whose constituencies lie outside London, those families were still a frustratingly difficult commute away. |
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| They have collectively identified various issues mainly from working with those who enter the process and work through it frustratingly. |
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| Nonetheless there remains a gulf between science and practice with the result that innovation in forest conservation is frustratingly slow. |
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| However, the progress towards a more dynamic and competitive Europe seems frustratingly sluggish. |
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| True to his promise, the eagle rays are gently flapping and wheeling in the current off the starboard quarter, frustratingly staying just too far away to photograph. |
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| Their website is so frustratingly bad that last year accessibility campaigner Matthew Somerville took it upon himself to recode a version of it that worked. |
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| It's a laudably ambitious work, and a frustratingly uneven novel. |
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| Most frustratingly for the school chancellor, this made it all but impossible to fire terrible teachers. |
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| Data are much better for Europe and Latin America, and frustratingly uneven for Africa and much of Asia. |
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| Again and again I was frustratingly outbid, then finally I sunk one. |
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| A frustratingly large number of improbably tall people seemed to enjoy competing with each other to see who could spend the most time stood directly in front of me. |
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| He argued that while poverty was still deep and growth in per capita incomes frustratingly low, there was some progress on which future efforts could be built. |
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| But it also reveals how frustratingly futile the task can be in a land-hungry megacity, by constantly throwing up glimpses of parking lots, temples and garbage dumps popping up where mangroves used to be. |
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| Cloaked in a fuzzy half-light, they feel frustratingly unrealistic. The best thing about this adaptation are the words that Sir Salman, as off-screen narrator, has lifted straight from the book. |
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| The abstractness and pensiveness of that question suggest something of what makes Allawi an interesting person but also what makes him a frustratingly ineffectual politician. |
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| This may be a frustratingly ad hoc approach for those who yearn for the certainty and authority offered by the grand inquisitors of high finance. |
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| A level playing field for company take-overs is still frustratingly far away and we have much work to do to agree a viable framework for an integrated market in investment services before the European elections. |
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| This process currently involves an extensive battery of tests, including road tests, and results in high costs and frustratingly long waiting lists. |
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| In response NGOs say that journalists are frustratingly unresponsive to major crises, such as the Ebola epidemic and present an over-simplified view of long-running conflicts, or ignore them completely. |
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| Government funding, while abundant, seems frustratingly out of reach. |
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| Dreaming of Bolivian moments Reprints Related items France and immigration: Let the skilled comeMay 4th 2006The details of the scandal remain frustratingly opaque. |
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| This was a way of talking about music that a composer in the Stravinskian tradition would find frustratingly non-musical. |
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| The Liberal government listened instead to Liberal defence lawyers and now defence lawyers and organized criminals will have a great time watching the crown frustratingly try to prosecute under this legislation. |
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| Lucid dreams can be frustratingly brief, Clower says. |
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| Add these delays to the time and effort taken to try to resolve a grievance at all the levels of the grievance procedure, where similar challenges also exist, and the wait can seem frustratingly long. |
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| Harry Redknapp frustratingly gesticulated at his side's lack of attacking endeavour, and it might also be the last we see of him in the top flight. |
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| The Rapporteur realises that the actual realisation of such rights, in particular in countries whose financial resources are still very limited, is frustratingly difficult to achieve. |
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| But here you are now, bossing Premier League midfields with skill, power and the assertiveness that, frustratingly, you showed only in flashes until recently. |
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| But the down side to that is a frustratingly slow pace, with space being given to endless metaphors instead of action, making it seem overly long. |
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| Most frustratingly, a detailed study of Trudeau's labour connection could have served as an excellent conjoiner to the treatment of that theme in English's first volume. |
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| This pseudo-Ciceronian prose style can be unnecessarily obscurationist and frustratingly dense, although frequently repeated topic sentences help to alleviate this. |
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