How To Use Exasperating In A Sentence
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You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
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There are no words for this kind of exasperating character, and yet one quickly realizes that if Woody had played it, this scene would have been hilarious instead of pathetic and aggravating.
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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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Singh's affairs with his putter, in all its guises, have been exasperating.
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I don't make a big deal out of them calling me by my first name, but it's just kind of exasperating since if I was an older looking man like the other professor I highly doubt they would call me by my first name or assume I was a TA.
Emails to undergrads
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Education, then, becomes an exasperating game of constant catchup.
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From a historian's perspective, aspects of Paton's presentist writing style are exasperating.
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Our team's failure is very exasperating.
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A boxer's exuberance can sometimes be exasperating.
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Penelope purposefully marched into the throng of suitors, looking for the familiar and somewhat exasperating figure.
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It will doubtless be looked upon as heresy for a children's librarian to own that she has a deal of sympathy for the down-trodden adult of the present; that there have been moments when she has even gone so far as to say an "amen" -- under her breath -- to the librarian who, after a day of vexations at the hands of the exasperating young person represented in our current social writings as a much-sinned-against innocent, wrathfully exploded, "Children ought to be put in a barrel and fed through the bung till they are twenty-one years old!
Library Work with Children
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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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Personally, I find the meta conspiracy approach a bit exasperating.
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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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This is a very useful stroke to practise, for the particular kind of stymie to which it applies occurs very frequently, and is one of the most exasperating of all.
The Complete Golfer
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You have this exasperating habit of never looking at me!
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He said it was "exasperating" the full assembly sat only two afternoons a week, and then often finished early.
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It's exasperating to run for a train and then miss it by half a minute.
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And this debate doesn't save any money, which is why it is kind of exasperating to some of us who really want to cut spending.
Coalition of senators challenges GOP on earmarks
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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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His Blair-type zeal took rotation, rotation, rotation to the most exasperating degree.
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The film is at its most exasperating in detailing the tragic story of Eduardo "El Chino" Hernandez.
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It is the post-hypnotic after-effectiveness which gives to the hypnoid and to the hypnotic states their importance for the treatment of the most exasperating symptoms.
Psychotherapy
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To see my body literally wither away before my eyes was exasperating.
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His destiny, he believed, was to be a great historical novelist chronicling chivalrous knights and glorious deeds, and from that viewpoint Holmes was a liability, and his popularity exasperating.
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In fact, it is so exasperating that I feel a rather longish rant coming on (relatively speaking -- which makes "longish" even more intimidating, coming as it is from me).
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [81] -- Where Are The Democrats On Healthcare Reform?!?
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Ivul is an eccentric, and exasperating in some ways, but I found something powerfully and unexpectedly real about the story's central conceit: that a single calamitous event, wounding a young man's pride, can metastasise into a family tragedy.
Ivul
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After almost thirty years exasperating the Left, he now turned to enraging the Right.
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John (who may or may not be from Cincinnati) is by turns mysterious and exasperating.
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He had meant to be a little facetious about the Greek words; but it was the slowly prepared and rather exasperating facetiousness of an ageing man, and he had dropped it listlessly, as though he himself had perceived this.
Clayhanger
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It is in fact an exasperating type of motion picture.
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At three in the afternoon of July 27th, the twelfth day after we had set out on the "three or four day run" from Resolution, this exasperating and seemingly interminable voyage really did end, and we thankfully beached our York boat at the famous lobstick that marks the landing of Pike's Portage.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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From the beginning, they had serious differences of opinions that caused exasperating conflict.
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He's probably the most exasperating man I've ever met.
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To my left was a 60s building playing resigned host to the department of philosophy and every exasperating quibble and inconsequentiality it expostulated, and up further along the rawboned green breast was a business school erected in crisp glass and cleanly sectioned stone with marble facades.
Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
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The line that the Inland Revenue has hitherto drawn between investment and trading has been exasperatingly unclear.
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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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Having to reason with a human and persuade her by the subterfuge of logic was exasperating.
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Modernity uses - or rather abuses - the term equality in two incompatible and self-canceling ways and in a verbal sleight of exasperating slipperiness.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
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Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons.
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There have been sessions that have been exasperating for us all.
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To see it in action was not only exasperating, but also extremely dissatisfying.
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Instead of thinking he is insane, she thinks he is exasperating.
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The figure kept, exasperatingly, just out of their reach, always a pace ahead of them.
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I've got to say, this is the most exasperating interview I've ever had.
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A boxer's exuberance can sometimes be exasperating.
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his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating
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In a separate research note, the bank described the euro as "exasperating," adding that the currency's rally from under $1.19 in early June to over $1.30 by late July had "wrong-footed many in the currency market.
Banks Back Off Grim Euro Calls
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I've had an exasperating day
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Nylon does have an exasperating trait of expanding in the wet and cold, causing the fly to sag.
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What I find a bit exasperating is encountering poets (of a certain age) who somehow look down on online publications as beneath a “real” publication (read print).
In Praise of Online Journals : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The way octonions interact, however, is peculiarly exasperating and unlike anything we are familiar with from our conventional number system (see diagram).
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This "imbedded" piece, something we haven't seen much of since the original Iraqi invasion - showed some of our most experienced troops at their best, facing serious, daily peril and explaining the exasperating bureaucratic limitations imposed by the Pakistanis.
60 Minutes Goes "Imbedded" in Afghanistan
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His best work, though, is self-indulgent, redundant, and exasperating, and therein lay its charms.
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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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Hamstrung by his uncle, he was having to go through an exasperating charade in order to nobble the project.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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The next 10 weeks would be the most exasperating and thrilling of my entire journalistic career.
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Newly designated sergeants and corporals were conscripted to the task of squad supervision and many exasperating occasions arose when a recruit got the wrong "foots" in place and was commanded to "change the foots.
The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces
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The determination to never speak ill can be exasperating for a reporter.
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To experience the enervating, exasperating and humbling feeling that comes from trying to plumb the depths of this most amazing subject we call mathematics, is to transcend the limits of human capability and fortify oneself against the buffets of life.
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Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons.
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I find certain aspects of my other half to be exasperating.
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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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Nancy could sometimes be the most exasperating of creatures.
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He can be immovable, irascible, and exasperating when he wants to, which is most of the time.
MURDER IN E MINOR
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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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To make the vibrating tongue was fairly easy, but to space the six finger-holes so as to get a sol-fa scale proved to be a matter of trial and error, exasperating to herself and excruciating to her hearers.
Mrs. Miniver
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It was an exasperating experience of continually losing my place.
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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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Nowhere, perhaps, is this as exasperating as in the terrible continuation of massive hunger and undernourishment in India.
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A meaning easily grasped by most Americans has proven exasperatingly hard for AI to comprehend consistently.
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The juge d'instruction: there were going to be exasperating inroads into Kenworthy's leisure and freedom of movement.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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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 most profound meditation only leads to an exasperating sense of impotence.
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For small-company executives, the "procedural roadblocks" that Hoppe describes are exasperating.
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But for most of us, it will be the low point of an incredibly exasperating week.
