Word: chagrined
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...ensuing “conversation,” much to the chagrin of these collegiate partisans, has not provided any deeper insight into the issues...
...open it.” Fish credits the change in Blake’s game to, amongst other things, his “monstrous athleticism”—which, if anything, will make for much flashier tennis and a bigger forehand for Blake in 2007. To the chagrin of Harvard’s women, it looks like Blake won’t be returning anytime soon...
...favorite children’s books is the chance to revisit them as adults with keener eyes. One of my own pet series of grade-school readers featured Amelia Bedelia, a bonneted and primly smocked English maid with a shaky grasp of her own native language. Much to the chagrin of her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, Amelia comically (and sometimes catastrophically) misinterprets their housekeeping instructions, thanks to her literalist approach to language...
...European Union Court ruled that a fiercely dedicated armed group that opposes his regime had been unfairly placed on the E.U.'s official list of terrorist organizations. The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) is also on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist organizations, although much to Tehran's chagrin, the U.S. did not hand over the group's fighters when it took control of their main base in Iraq after the fall of Saddam...
...symbolic of his inconsequential four years in office. In fact, it may be his most shameless exploitation of a wedge issue to pander to his party base since he brazenly pushed for a “foolproof” death penalty. Such political posturing has clearly been to the chagrin of Massachusetts’ voters, who overwhelmingly elected Deval Patrick ’78 to be their next Governor instead of Romney’s handpicked successor and Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey...