Word: chagrined
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...success, love—of at least the college variety—is simply no longer a reason to make life-changing decisions. Truth be told, it most often won’t even convince us to alter our cover letter location preferences. College students today, much to the chagrin of the romantic, think the toughest—or at least the most important—market out there is the job market...
...sophomore Dante Balestracci returned to the lineup Saturday—apparently to the chagrin and amazement of the usually-competent sports staff of the Cornell Daily Sun—and picked up where he left...
Maybe the royals are mortals like the rest of us. For instance, you know how you get when crazy Uncle Ed keeps shoving his camcorder in your face? PRINCE WILLIAM, 19, feels your chagrin. During his first week at St. Andrews University in Scotland, a camera crew was twice spotted breaking strict privacy rules imposed by Buckingham Palace for the heir to the heir to the throne. After the cameramen were thrown off campus, Wills called his father to complain. An "incandescent" Prince Charles, the London papers report, was even angrier when he learned the crew worked for Ardent Productions...
...After showering, shaving, and generally making a racket in my Mather bathroom, (much to the chagrin of my eight suitemates), I head off to Newton for the shoot...
...essence, the Western-mediated talks have separated the issue of peace from the issue of political reforms, much to the chagrin of Macedonian nationalists. And the question of whether the current deal, even in the best-case scenario, leads to a suspension of hostilities may be decided primarily by those waging...