Word: chagrined
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...reached as much as 37, at 78-41, with about six and half minutes to go before Hawks Coach Paul Brazeau began to clear his bench. As the clock wound down, the only suspense left lay in whether Hartford would break 100 points for the game. Much to the chagrin of the few remaining fans, the Hawks...
...music teachers or pupils and hell is interwoven with high school. The sound, too, (by a string quartet, piano and two bassoons) - hovers between melodic-traditional and staccato-modern. Kirsten Sanderson's witty staging deftly evokes dreams -- their fleeting lyricism, transposed logic, sexual ambiguity and poignant blend of chagrin and nostalgia...
Amid the chaos of the currency crisis, it became clear that German political vision is as yet no match for its economic dynamism. Germany is Europe's de facto leader, but will not act the part. As Americans have learned to their constant chagrin, leadership means sacrificing some measure of national interest to the greater alliance interest. Germany knows that its interest rates set the standard for the rest of Europe. By setting its rates ruinously high, Germany was announcing that in fighting domestic inflation it was quite prepared to lead the rest of Europe into recession. The rest...
...scene: A cinema in Buenos Aires, July 26, 1952. A group of theater-goers are watching a movie. The movie stops and the lights come up to the chagrin of the audience. We hear a voice over the intercom speaking in Spanish, which is soon drowned out by the monotonic English translation of the day's latest news: "To inform the people of Argentina that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 20:25 hours today...
...buck is passed to the President's budget office. No one knows, and no one wants to know. Most claim they first learned of this idiocy when they watched Bush's domestic policy speech to the Economic Club of Detroit two weeks ago. Off the record, there is widespread chagrin -- and considerable sympathy for those in the bureaucracy's upper reaches who have taken to sporting buttons that say BUSH HATES...