This is a deliberate stylistic choice — but it's also exasperating, even allowing for the fact that Theo is meant to be an exasperating character, an Everyman whose motivations are arbitrary and haphazard.
|
|
The strikes have been inconvenient, occasionally exasperating, but not crippling.
|
|
But its frantic exertions and straining after wit prove exasperating.
|
|
There are few more poignant, exasperating creatures than teenage girls.
|
|
Mr. Dick smartly summarizes complex procedures and cites exasperating statistics.
|
|
On Baseball The end of an exasperating season is near.
|
|
Her victories were interspersed with exasperating moments with Cole, though.
|
|
For consumers, some of the legal constraints can seem exasperating.
|
|
It's fine to post an Instagram Story about your exasperating commute.
|
|
The strikes have been inconvenient, and occasionally exasperating, but not crippling.
|
|
There was no curse to blame, only Neymar — brilliant, exasperating Neymar.
|
|
But that was hardly the most exasperating moment of the opener.
|
|
Like many people in the theater industry, he found Latouche exasperating.
|
|
The bumbling, exasperating Democratic Party claws back one branch of government.
|
|
Depending on your mood, that phrase is either enlightening or exasperating.
|
|
"It's exhausting and exasperating," Michele Thompson said of the reporting process.
|
|
From the outside, dealing with dementia is a heartbreaking, exasperating task.
|
|
Of course it's exasperating to see such strong scientific evidence rejected.
|
|
Upsetting the entrenched power structure of cities is an exasperating, thankless task.
|
|
And the lack of true political leadership on either side is exasperating.
|
|
"She was funny, fun, exasperating, silly, stubborn, quick-witted, quirky," Robinson said.
|
|
That is exasperating to some people when we have made a decision.
|
|
But its frantic exertions and straining after wit prove exasperating (1:00).
|
|
But its frantic exertions and straining after wit prove exasperating (31013:00).
|
|
Cano's absence will be shorter, but his injury was no less exasperating.
|
|
Charles Wuorinen's "Brokeback Mountain," though, is exasperating because it falls just short.
|
|
But for now, the evolution is exciting and exasperating, all at once.
|
|
I do not like writing serious articles about climate change because it's exasperating.
|
|
He found it interesting, he said in a recent interview, but also exasperating.
|
|
Some new operas are exasperating because they fall far short of their potential.
|
|
The Giants, despite Thursday night's exasperating stumble in Philadelphia, remain ahead of schedule.
|
|
In the past, I found Shields's project occasionally impressive and more often exasperating.
|
|
A movie this exasperating could only have been made by true believers, and you
|
|
Is there anything more exasperating, more anxiety-inducing, more enraging than this haunting number?
|
|
A lot of organizations—even some major ones—can be exasperating to work with.
|
|
In fact, I find it exasperating to see so many people sharing these stories.
|
|
His attention to subtext is beguiling, and exasperating as you seek a little clarity.
|
|
It's easy to imagine him roping a cow, but he'd make an exasperating husband.
|
|
Not only is that exasperating to talented team members who deserve credit, it's demoralizing.
|
|
His behavior vacillates between adorable and exasperating, and Anne sees it that way, too.
|
|
Mr. Jones isn't formally identified until well into the movie, a careless, exasperating decision.
|
|
Losing a patient is always painful, but losing one like Littlejohn is also exasperating.
|
|
Life, especially in Egypt, can be confounding and exasperating, then suddenly filled with enchantment.
|
|
Holiday gift giving (and spending) can be one of the most exasperating shopping experiences.
|
|
It all proves exasperating, and yet, yes, a sequel is teased at the end.
|
|
Each try lasted about three seconds and somehow grew funnier the more exasperating it got.
|
|
At the conservatory, Debussy was a restless student, exasperating his teachers and fascinating his schoolmates.
|
|
What he has written defies easy categorization in ways that are both admirable and exasperating.
|
|
And so it goes in a documentary that is by turns engaging, exasperating and confusing.
|
|
While the repetition was exasperating to Republican senators, it may have been beneficial to Democrats.
|
|
Additional points are awarded for upsets, calculated by a method too exasperating to explain here.
|
|
It's exasperating for this person's colleagues if their manager fails to address the poor performance.
|
|
There are a couple of mysteries swirling through "The Snowman," a leaden, clotted, exasperating mess.
|
|
In other words, trying to be an empathetic person feels at turns gratifying, exasperating, and exhausting.
|
|
Limitations will be imposed, and you'll find it especially exasperating to be around small-minded people.
|
|
Critics say that's only exasperating the problems and, in practice, just deferring to the Israeli side.
|
|
But they also profess an indifference to earthly powers that many governments have often found exasperating.
|
|
Yet for all this weighty expertise the show comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
|
|
Since the beginning of this exasperating year, there have been many, many debates on social media.
|
|
Yet it was Mr. Trump's slight of Mr. Ryan that was most exasperating to party officials.
|
|
Sadly, another crisis, the opioid epidemic, is exasperating this problem in many regions of the country.
|
|
But our exasperating diversity of perception, experience and character may be our salvation in the end.
|
|
George Packer's 'Our Man' portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory.
|
|
A life on soccer's fringes can be exasperating, and lonely, even in the best of times.
|
|
There was something tough and original in Ridley's vision; there was something exasperating about it, too.
|
|
Indulgent and sometimes exasperating, "Bon Voyage" is nonetheless admirably full of life as well as death.
|
|
For passengers, sitting on a plane any longer than necessary can be an exasperating, even painful experience.
|
|
The images out of Charlottesville, Virginia, are unsettling — but also pathetic, also exasperating — for their boring timelessness.
|
|
His inability to communicate sets up a lot of narrative tension, but it's more exasperating than exciting.
|
|
Not having power for a few hours can be exasperating in that sort of heat and humidity.
|
|
But Tanaka's dazzling performances were often wasted by the Yankees' exasperating inability to provide him run support.
|
|
Change — lasting, democratic change, which is the only kind worth fighting for — is hard, slow, often exasperating.
|
|
However, his last two escapades with both Cro Cop and Sonnen are the most exasperating of all.
|
|
But Mr. Coale said the 2013 race, which brought new revelations of more sexting, had been exasperating.
|
|
For Seitz and the farmers, watching families like the Paups suffer was by turns exasperating and motivating.
|
|
Neither Mr. Whishaw nor Ms. Fleming portrays the title character in this equally hypnotic and exasperating production.
|
|
Things happen, some ridiculous and exasperating, others effectively and productively surprising (like Dibs's desperate, lonely sexual writhing).
|
|
Excruciating wait times at security checkpoints at airport across the country are doing more than just exasperating travelers.
|
|
Is this their flat, and André is merely an exasperating guest, or is he in his own home?
|
|
Threading a needle with thick needlepoint yarns can be exasperating unless you have the DMC Aluminum Needle Threader.
|
|
But while the dialogue often has a comic crackle, the characters' fecklessness is less charmingly kooky than exasperating.
|
|
Much like Holbrooke himself, who died in 2010 at 69, Packer's book is charming, brilliant, cocksure and exasperating.
|
|
Searching for a strip of firm sand, right at the edge of where the waves crest was exasperating.
|
|
The play is annotated by a chorus of six performers who speak in the exasperating language of computerese.
|
|
What the documents show is that the Ahsanis operate in a realm that is both competitive and exasperating.
|
|
For some residents, it was another exasperating fumble by Wuhan officials who many believe have mishandled the epidemic.
|
|
For some residents, it was another exasperating fumble by Wuhan officials, who many believe have mishandled the epidemic.
|
|
An excursion into the Theater of Lists at St. Ann's Warehouse proves to be both original and exasperating.
|
|
Egotistic, mercurial, erudite, recklessly affectionate, careless, vindictive, impulsive, he can turn from exasperating to heartbreaking in seconds flat.
|
|
Time may have withered her, to misquote Shakespeare, but custom will never stale this mother's infinite, and exasperating, variety.
|
|
Which made Tyrion's lurking during the season 7 finale episode, "The Dragon and the Wolf," all the more exasperating.
|
|
First, almonds were blamed for causing the drought in California—or at the very least, exasperating the drought's effects.
|
|
Goldberg is exasperating in just the right ways as a bleeding heart whose capacity for forgiveness seems maddeningly endless.
|
|
The newest allegations feel all the more exasperating because of how many times it seems we've been here before.
|
|
This can be liberating, even if watching movies with hundreds of other critics can be at times predictably exasperating.
|
|
Some conservationists are concerned that they are preying on the baby caribou and exasperating the decline of this vulnerable population.
|
|
As they indulged, the room filled with the forced gaiety of uppers, exasperating to witness from the outside looking in.
|
|
"It is exasperating to me that a high-profile, hot athlete ... would lend himself to a video like this," Rep.
|
|
For all the scholarly expertise employed, an exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery comes off as an exasperating magical negro narrative.
|
|
Speaking as someone with a fair amount of academic background in distributed systems and databases, this entire debate is exasperating.
|
|
Several soldiers said in interviews they pleaded guilty only to end expensive and exasperating prosecutions that dragged on for years.
|
|
There was clear impatience and exasperation in her voice when I spoke up in class, and, well, I can be exasperating.
|
|
THEY call it "road rage" for a reason: few modern experiences are more exasperating than being trapped in a traffic jam.
|
|
For President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, passing a bill to dismantle Obamacare was a trying and at times exasperating exercise.
|
|
As such, I am hesitant to invoke personal experience and family biography to weigh in on the ever-exasperating immigration conflict.
|
|
As you go blind, exasperating incongruities arise, but also the convenience of this new excuse for shedding social obligations not desired.
|
|
I decided long ago that I would live in a city of raucous difference, though it is sometimes grating and exasperating.
|
|
He had a strong spring training, hitting eight home runs, so his lost season thus far is all the more exasperating.
|
|
Is it better to enjoy historically inherited privileges, and practise political self-restraint for fear of exasperating an already rather sceptical public?
|
|
As a result, he said, he had to record late at night when the airport closed, a limitation that he found exasperating.
|
|
"It is high time to put an end to these exasperating sanctions and normalize political and economic relations with Russia," Strache said.
|
|
Moreover, Amazon is promising one-day delivery on Prime Day purchases — potentially exasperating already difficult working conditions inside Amazon's product fulfillment centers.
|
|
The world is riddled with such exasperating errors, and Ms. Streisand sees herself as burdened with the Sisyphean task of uprooting them.
|
|
"It is often exasperating when you go and find that the person is absolutely fine and just chilling at home," he said.
|
|
As a longtime reader of Dreher's blog—an experience alternately enthralling and exasperating—I'd always wondered what he'd be like in person.
|
|
" Derek's naïveté, on the other hand, is exasperating, and by the time he finally tells Allison, in his senior year, "I'm done.
|
|
Both spans will have shoulders for car breakdowns, something the current bridge lacks, a failing blamed for frequent and exasperating traffic jams.
|
|
After weeks of contentious, often exasperating hearings, most polls show backing for impeachment holding steady, with more people supporting than opposing it.
|
|
Frequently minimized as damsels in distress and exasperating nags, women within the genre exist almost exclusively to portray girlfriends, wives, mothers, and victims.
|
|
"What is surely exasperating for our colleagues on the East Coast is whether or not we're ditsy, we're onto something," Professor Sadler said.
|
|
It can be exasperating and it also stokes your sadism, particularly when Vivi's helplessness (she escapes in flip-flops) feels like a contrivance.
|
|
Everyone, you see, is a little in love with Garry, but only a few are allowed the pleasure of his continuing, exasperating company.
|
|
Renee Gray, a 56-year-old black Army veteran, said she found the coverage of Buttigieg&aposs struggles with African-American supporters exasperating.
|
|
But as exasperating as it is to lose access to your account, none of the widely-available measures for account recovery are very secure.
|
|
But she is undone by obstacles and tormentors — and a script that goes to extraordinary, and exasperating, lengths to stack the deck against her.
|
|
More important, this self-absorption not only gets in the way of the characters' best interests but can also be exasperating to a reader.
|
|
A diverse sampler of the popular and the abstruse, the festival may be middle-aged, but it remains surprising, if at times reliably exasperating.
|
|
And it's still that, even now that I've seen it all in chaos, with all of its needless injustice and exasperating bullshit up-close.
|
|
It's troubling and exasperating, and overall just not the best news for those of us who are into things like accountability and civil liberties.
|
|
Books like Oster's fall into the trap of promising easy solutions—in her case, based on Big Data—to the exasperating trials of parenthood.
|
|
Many of the biggest ones were just exasperating plot holes: how does a geologist get lost in a cavern system he just electronically auto-mapped?
|
|
We've cut taxes $5 trillion since 2001, almost all the benefits have gone to the wealthiest people in this country, and it's exasperating income inequality.
|
|
And to our friends in Washington and Brussels: supporting Moldova so far has been an exasperating process, but we need you to redouble your efforts.
|
|
Retro report The origins of tamper-resistant packaging — exasperating yet reassuring — lie in a deadly episode in 21982, when cyanide-laced Tylenol killed seven people.
|
|
The Massachusetts senator brought on part of it herself with her exasperating refusal to depart from her non-revealing talking points about Medicare for All.
|
|
On Soccer A weekend filled with exasperating video reviews showed how the sport's rule book is simply incompatible with the scrutiny of the replay system.
|
|
"Never Look Away" bristles with half-formed thoughts and almost-heady insights, and hums with an ambition that is exasperating and exhilarating in equal measure.
|
|
It is exasperating, after all, to have to live in a country where so many people are so aggressively wrong about so much, they say.
|
|
TAX collection in Africa resembles an exasperating fishing expedition, in which the big fish wriggle into tax havens and the tiddlers hide in the informal sector.
|
|
When "that guy" first showed up, I had no idea I would be time traveling back to some of the more exasperating relationships of my past.
|
|
"Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally," Streep said.
|
|
In the book, Norman comes across as a charismatic performer and, despite Thornbury's best efforts, a rather exasperating person—hardly an unusual combination among rock stars.
|
|
Before Tuesday night's game, and just 14 hours after losing an immensely exasperating, rain-delayed affair to the Texas Rangers that ended at 2:45 a.m.
|
|
George Packer's "Our Man" portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory: relentless, ambitious, voracious, brilliant, idealistic, noble, needy and containing multitudes.
|
|
If "the girl" is in some way a figure of Kavan's own vulnerability, she's also a cipher, barely glimpsed, and as exasperating as she is pitiable.
|
|
When a performer is astounding on one occasion and exasperating on another, you want him to continue on his chosen path, however circuitous it may appear.
|
|
Unlike some circumstantial transplants, who find the quirks of living in New York more exasperating than exhilarating, the couple considers even the city's pricklier aspects charming.
|
|
And he's not alone in his lack of definition: there's scarcely a behavior or line reading in this exasperating relationship drama that doesn't feel like affectation.
|
|
As drought makes grass and other fodder harder to find, elephants have begun invading the village's tempting irrigated fields, destroying crops and irrigation canals and exasperating farmers.
|
|
But it is exasperating that we are still seeing headlines about such incidents -- racist and ugly -- in sports and in nearly every other realm of American life.
|
|
The last two were exactly the sort of performances — winning games they could easily have lost — that summed up why Juventus are so exasperating to their rivals.
|
|
He's mostly stuck hanging out with his father, Curtis, an erratic disciplinarian who clearly loves his son, but also finds him exasperating, for the usual teenager reasons.
|
|
Donald Trump's health policies, pieced together from speeches, television interviews, Twitter posts and a seven-point plan, are exasperating even prominent figures usually associated with Republican perspectives.
|
|
Republican or Democrat, they almost universally described it as another exasperating turn in the Tilt-a-Whirl of spectacle that has surrounded the presidency of Donald Trump.
|
|
For all its imperial and papal pomp and circumstance, Rome at heart is a beautiful child — raucous, dreamy, secretive, a touch spoiled, by turns exasperating and enchanting.
|
|
"It was exasperating having to explain to each new caseworker what was going on," and that's only when the caseworker called back weeks later, Ms. Bacigalupo said.
|
|
LOS ANGELES — Determining a motive for the man who committed one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history continues to be an exasperating task for investigators.
|
|
But the candidate logjam is exasperating area activists who have been organizing for a year and a half against Mr. Rohrabacher, a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump.
|
|
When he was a young dance-maker in the 1990s, the juice and brio of his work were delectable, but his seeming carelessness over structure proved exasperating.
|
|
Apart from a glimpse of a nautical chart, the movie is mapless—a minor but exasperating flaw, because the story depends on the depth of Tom's isolation.
|
|
While Auriemma has won 11 N.C.A.A. women's titles at Connecticut, Jackson, 48, has withstood exasperating circumstances in the most recent of her 14 seasons at Chicago State.
|
|
Dirks' battle cry that his university is not a "battlefield" disingenuously suggests universities are mere sanctuaries of unperturbed learning far from the madding crowd of exasperating extremists.
|
|
Hawley's pacing is always slow, which can work (and even be welcome) on a TV show with time to burn, but quickly becomes exasperating in a feature film.
|
|
The self-assembly, aided only by an Allen key and diagrams, could be infuriating, but piecing together IKEA's accounts, this paper wrote in 2006, was even more exasperating.
|
|
I just spent another exasperating hour on the phone with Samsung and was told someone would get in touch—but he didn't even get my phone number correct.
|
|
They aren't major exasperating ones, of the "Why are you splitting away from the group, leaving your safe hiding place, and heading into the dark basement alone?" variety.
|
|
For an even more exasperating example of this, look no further than metal, a genre whose internal squabbles make punk and Middle Eastern politics look reasonable by comparison.
|
|
But what is even more troublesome has been the twisted, exasperating (and dangerous) moral relativism of Swedes to what they see every day and night all around them.
|
|
For Schemel, however, it was grief layered on top of grief—and the fact that heroin use continued within her community after Pfaff's overdose makes for exasperating reading.
|
|
"It is high time to put an end to these exasperating sanctions and normalize political and economic relations with Russia," quoted the Austrian newspaper Österreich on June 3.
|
|
Dan, who plans to appeal against the decision that denied him welfare, is passed from one department to another, hampered by exasperating phone calls and bad-tempered confrontations.
|
|
If you've ever been roped into a massive email thread, you know how exasperating "reply all" messages can be, especially when they have nothing to do with you.
|
|
Though the theme — essentially the future of life on this planet — was worthwhile and the displays thought-provoking, my experience visiting three weeks before the Games was exasperating.
|
|
"Nobody has any news about her," Alom told the Thomson Reuters Foundation after another exasperating search in the blistering heat, his wife rocking on the floor beside him.
|
|
Some were the kind I had hoped for: "Of course it's exasperating to see such strong scientific evidence rejected," read a comment about a student named Gwen Beatty.
|
|
We know what the other person is going through on bad days; we know how exasperating it is to explain invisible symptoms to doctors only to face skepticism.
|
|
When they do, it's exasperating, and I feel humiliated — the thought of having to go through that time and time again takes its toll on my mental health.
|
|
But until China decides that the dangers of its exasperating neighbour's nuclear programme outweigh those that might follow the collapse of his regime, Mr Kim will not be deterred.
|
|
Eaton said that the team had been hitting the balls hard and had good at-bats, and that it was exasperating that they had nothing to show for it.
|
|
My colleague Helen Havlak had an exasperating struggle trying to find a pair for her Pixel 2, and the responses to my tweet below also illustrate the unfulfilled need.
|
|
Willing to engage in often exasperating coöperation with the President, he ended up proposing a bolder and more inclusive version of his former opponent's plans for a postwar world.
|
|
Though our calculated use of emoji these days would seem to indicate otherwise, it remains an exasperating and thrilling fact of life that emotions cannot be quantified, particularly love.
|
|
And, as exasperating as I found this episode, I'm curious to watch "Here and Now" track the ways its characters are served by the approaches to living they've chosen.
|
|
Yankees 6, Rays 3 Between dunderheaded base running, futile swings in the batter's box and an exasperating string of losses, the Yankees had turned increasingly desperate to generate offense.
|
|
This story might also have been the germ of "My Absolute Darling," Gabriel Tallent's highly anticipated, accomplished and exasperating first novel about how imprisonment and isolation mark the mind.
|
|
The song captures how exasperating it can be to keep applying for jobs and getting nowhere, eventually the character in Lewis' cover decides to move countries in search of work.
|
|
Makes sense, because we've always suspected that wearing your hair down and red carpet-ready while entrenched in full battle mode might get a little exasperating from time to time.
|
|
" Streep went on to say that "Harvey supported the work fiercely, was exasperating but respectful with me in our working relationship, and with many others with whom he worked professionally.
|
|
But on the Fourth (and fifth) of July 1985, these two teams were equals—equally afflicted, equally exasperating, and equally determined—in a game that to this day has none.
|
|
"It is exasperating that lawmakers rely on such easily debunked constitutional concerns for political cover," Steve Vladeck, a constitutional law expert with the University of Texas Austin's law school, said.
|
|
That said, it's exasperating (yet predictable) that the movie makes such a great, groaning fuss over the fact that women are onboard, a self-consciousness that reads like self-congratulation.
|
|
It's puzzling and exasperating for many feminists that with the first real chance of a female US president on the table, college-age women just don't seem that into it.
|
|
During her first four years in Washington, she would occasionally signal that the role of a first lady, when performed regally, elegantly and perfectly, could be exhausting, exasperating and lonely.
|
|
"Why Liberalism Failed" is a book that reads like an attempt to enunciate a primal scream, a deeply exasperating volume that nevertheless articulates something important in this age of disillusionment.
|
|
The government wanted to avoid setting up new reception centers at Calais or do anything that would encourage migrants to head to that English Channel port, further exasperating local officials.
|
|
One of the world's great inventions, only a little behind the light bulb, was Ramona Quimby, the strong-willed, lovable and exasperating star of "Ramona the Pest" and other books.
|
|
It was an ominous sign that, after more than three fraught and exasperating years of debate in Parliament, Brexit was heading once again for a deadlock — this time in Brussels.
|
|
In an editorial, the newspaper El País suggested that the failed talks — which it called "exasperating months of paralysis" — reflected "the political irresponsibility" of Spain's current generation of party leaders.
|
|
Goldman Sachs downgraded Micron to neutral from buy on Wednesday, sending the shares tumbling in premarket trading and further exasperating a violent sell-off in memory chip stocks this month.
|
|
The roller-coaster ride has been exasperating for businesses that thrive on certainty and cannot easily shift supply chains or adjust shipments of products that need weeks to cross oceans.
|
|
Editorial The Turkish military incursion into Syria that started Wednesday with American air support is about as good an illustration as there is of the exasperating complexity of Washington's foreign affairs.
|
|
The exasperating appendage that I had cursed over the past year had also become my security blanket, knowing that its presence meant he was on the other end of my journey.
|
|
Theater The most hellish eternal torture Dante never got around to mentioning — the staff meeting that never ends — is brought to vividly exasperating life by the theater troupe the Mad Ones.
|
|
Paz Vega pops up to play some guitar; Prairie eats a bird; people dance well enough to effectively stop a school shooting (an incredibly exasperating and cloying climax to the series).
|
|
In "Florida Girls," the series utilizes the flamboyant, exasperating themes of Florida Man to dig at what is really at stake when people say they want to get out of Florida.
|
|
The Via has a slightly exasperating way of showing up like this, presenting itself in all its official pomp just at the point you feel that it has abandoned you forever.
|
|
The international organization is certainly flawed and often exasperating—but it is the best vehicle the United States has for advancing its agenda in the world and sharing the burden with others.
|
|
We're not going to lie: The extended wait between the announcement that Victoria Beckham would be Target's next designer collaborator and the first actual glimpse at the collection has been pretty exasperating.
|
|
All subsequent arguments on which monuments to heave into the landfill of history are going to be murkier and will surely lay bare what an exasperating country General Lee failed to destroy.
|
|
Too many to count here, but my actions tell the story of someone who has fallen for both a lovely lady and her lovely, friendly, funny, self-deprecating, exasperating and charming country.
|
|
If it weren't for a teasing scene at the beginning and the existence of reviews like this one, you might mistake "Colossal" for a certain kind of diffident, funny-sad, exasperating drama.
|
|
It's exasperating to watch a smart woman play possum like this — not just in the interviews but in the writing, especially when her conclusions don't tell us anything we didn't know before.
|
|
Central to his argument is an exasperating fact: There really is enough sand in the rivers and offshore to meet India's demand for concrete and plaster, at least according to many conservationists.
|
|
What makes trying to solve a Rubik's Cube so exasperating is that every rotation you make to align the colors on one side messes up something on one of the other sides.
|
|
In a move that's equal parts infuriating and exasperating, Ajit Pai, the FCC's new chairman appointed by President Trump, wants to scrap the open internet protections installed in 2015 under the Obama administration.
|
|
Even their nightly brouhahas have purpose; those exasperating ga-noos are unique to each animal, which makes it easier for mothers and calves to find each other in large herds or the dark.
|
|
She called him "exasperating but respectful" of their working relationship, and emphasizes that she was unaware of his inappropriate behavior, and that "not everybody" knew, or the news would have come out sooner.
|
|
Frank Lampard announced Monday that he would leave New York City F.C. when his contract expires at the end of the year, ending his late-starting and sometimes exasperating two-year M.L.S. tenure.
|
|
His life was one long brilliant bluff, and the things that make him exasperating—his vanity and closed-mindedness; his unearned sense of superiority and egocentric blindness—were also why the bluffs worked.
|
|
More than once, for instance, we watch Laurel shell and eat a hard-boiled egg beside Hardy's hospital bed, reaching into a breast pocket for a convenient salt shaker and exasperating the patient.
|
|
The conflicts surrounding Trump's D.C. hotel and the emoluments clause were exasperating but remote in their immensity, whereas a $211 toll for a $216 bottle of milk was an affront you could grasp.
|
|
A commanding victory at the Players Championship was Simpson's first since 2013, ending an exasperating journey that required him to remake his putting stroke after the belly putter was outlawed starting in 2016.
|
|
Even worse: For more than three years she has had the exasperating job of presiding over policies with which she does not agree, and of handing funds to institutions whose agenda she opposes.
|
|
They will take one of the league's finer regular-season records into next weekend's playoffs after a typically exasperating but ultimately gratifying win on Sunday — a 213-210 conquest of the Washington Redskins.
|
|
The size of the thing is especially exasperating, as many of Fitbit's fans have smaller, daintier wrists and probably don't want to look like the have an entire damn TV strapped to their arm.
|
|
Sure, there are basic tasks that can free up a human rep to handle the more difficult matters, but it can be exasperating when there is no easy way to talk to a person.
|
|
It was frequently exasperating to see that Emmit didn't really bring doom down around his ears like previous seemingly upstanding citizens of Fargo, your Lester Nygaards (Martin Freeman) and your Peggy Blumquists (Kirsten Dunst).
|
|
"This refining outage couldn't come at a worse time for consumers, given the backdrop of the tensions with Iran only exasperating the rising price environment for oil," said John Kilduff, partner with Again Capital.
|
|
Confessions of a Fake News Writer Here's a weaselly and exasperating semi-mea culpa from (the presumably pseudonymous) Winston Wordsworth, who laments his time writing lies for a website that he refuses to name.
|
|
Trump's unwillingness to back off his wiretapping tweet (now two weeks old!) is exacerbating differences with allies abroad and exasperating allies on the Hill, while heightening the risk of embarrassment when investigations are complete.
|
|
Not only is it exasperating to justify myself to people who have no stake in the process, but people have rarely been enthusiastic about my decision unless they've decided to be child-free too.
|
|
By then, Trump had already held up the transfer of $400 million in urgently needed aid to Ukraine, a move that was exasperating and mystifying to members of Congress, which had approved the aid.
|
|
And as Megan pointed out, her use as a female rival / delay tactic for Eleven rejoining the group through the thoroughly overused "obvious misunderstanding" trope was one of the more exasperating moments of the season.
|
|
They could have added additional constraints on the algorithm to limit some of outlier situations, such as ending the school day at some schools at 1:30 pm, which was particularly exasperating for some parents.
|
|
The Russian strikes saved Assad's forces from imminent collapse and turned the tide of the fighting in his favor, exasperating the United States and its allies which have been working for years to defeat him.
|
|
Basically the history of the McCarthy era — the paranoia, the agency's sinister yet amateur machinations, local politics, informants, the suppression of civil rights — is thrown at you as raw, inchoate data, as enveloping, exasperating minutia.
|
|
But the boycott movement is having the reverse effect, exasperating Arab leaders as well as many Jewish Israeli opponents of Mr. Netanyahu who hoped that Arab voters could play a decisive role in defeating him.
|
|
For listeners who are unable to let go of Zayn's undeniable vocal chops and moody flair (me), these quality songs are exasperating reminders that Zayn is wasting his potential as well as everyone else's time.
|
|
Our Cassandra is Mildred Groves, a woman in her early 20s who is aggravated by a dull life of caring for her irritable, controlling mother and exasperating people with her visions of maudlin future events.
|
|
The dance has been exasperating, listeners shifting at a moment's notice between struggling to let the (very good) new music speak for itself and groaning at Kanye barreling across lines of proper decency on Twitter.
|
|
To the consternation of many on the left, President Obama took on the role of exasperating but willing mentor to Donald Trump—an exasperated Henry Higgins to the latter's Eliza Doolittle—almost immediately after the election.
|
|
News Analysis DELAYS or cancellations because of bad weather or mechanical problems are exasperating but common occurrences in air travel, but increasingly, passengers aren't making it to their destinations for yet another reason: not enough pilots.
|
|
It's exasperating enough that these no-shot hopefuls get the attention they do in veepstakes listicles and cable-news panels—but it's also unfair to other, less-mentioned candidates who actually make a lot of sense.
|
|
Among the many exasperating lapses detailed in the New York Times' lengthy report on Russia's apparent interference with the 2016 election, one in particular stands out — the scale of its repercussions matched only by its banality.
|
|
It's a sprawling, incisive, exasperating, hilarious, and yes, petulant look at modern life — references include news feeds, metadata, Oculus Rift and, because it rhymes, Taylor Swift — with, he stresses, a small but significant amount of hope.
|
|
The High Crusade was originally published in Astounding by the influential and exasperating John W. Campbell, who also published the best early work of Asimov and Heinlein, as well as L. Ron Hubbard's early Dianetics essays.
|
|
The characters in this beautifully acted production from Ars Nova and WP Theater, directed with probing sensitivity by Anne Kauffman, are united by a web of mutual concern that is as exasperating as it is reassuring.
|
|
The quick flashes of footage meant to convey a character's jumbled thought process from Cabaret and the elaborate fantasy sequences from All That Jazz — they're both here, in ways that are sometimes great and sometimes exasperating.
|
|
Genet's highly stylized, sexually explicit works in memoir, fiction and playwriting transformed each of those genres, scandalizing readers and audiences and turning him into one of the most exasperating and profound moralists of the twentieth century.
|
|
There's nothing for Trump to lose politically with his supporters by waging war with the media — and his strategy of exasperating the clubby White House press corps gels with his image as a disruptor who disrespects convention.
|
|
"You can do as much business as you want in Iran, but we have a say with regards to your visa," Grenell, who has a history of exasperating his Berlin hosts, told Bild newspaper in an interview.
|
|
The original cut of that season featured 15 episodes of varying length, each focused on a new member of the Bluth family, which dovetailed in exasperating and exhilarating ways the deeper into the season the show got.
|
|
One of the assumptions of this seductive, disturbing, exasperating movie — the third feature written and directed by Josephine Decker (after "Butter on the Latch" and "Thou Wast Mild and Lovely") — is that conventional distinctions don't necessarily apply.
|
|
And in a move that's probably even more exasperating than the original list would have been, he ultimately undercuts an insightful meditation on what we keep and why in favor of a gotcha and fairly guessable surprise.
|
|
Mr. Biden and his advisers are highly sensitive to the criticism that in 2015, he dragged out his decision before ultimately opting out of the Democratic primary, exasperating his supporters and undermining the Democratic front-runner, Mrs.
|
|
Strong sense of own integrity Throughout his book tour, Comey has remained the same singular, cordial and self-possessed, sometimes exasperating figure with a strong sense of his own sense of integrity that he was while in office.
|
|
These are less hopeful times for South Africa and, unlike Amy Biehl, she did not fall in love with the country — although her love for the exasperating Easy shines through, ensuring that readers, too, will love him forever.
|
|
It was the third walk-off win for the Cubs during their winning streak and was no less exasperating for their opponent than the other two: a two-strike squeeze bunt by a pitcher and a wild pitch.
|
|
It is a know-how that will now be drawn on considerably, with wide-scale devastation across 20 parishes, at least 60,600 homes damaged or ruined, and the long and often exasperating road to recovery just now beginning.
|
|
For the 39-year-old Strings, described as the "third-biggest crossover star in the history of country music," this yearning arrives when he hears that his beloved, exasperating mother — a woman he could never please — has died.
|
|
I howled like a woman murdering the best thing that had ever happened to her, ruining the absolute best relationship with the kindest, most patient, most defensive, most exasperating, most handsome, most hideous man she had ever met.
|
|
The carnivalesque land-use battles that ensnare San Francisco and its semirural suburbs, he points out, are a microcosm of the exasperating land-use issues threatening other thriving economies, like Seattle, Austin and Denver; Vancouver, London and Berlin.
|
|
My exasperating and traumatic experience was, at least in part, a failure of our government to fund and prioritize science and public health -- to appropriately support the CDC, which has been working fervently to understand Zika and its effects.
|
|
Much of Andonis Foniadakis's "Kosmos" is emphatic and flimsy: an exasperating display of dancers walking purposefully, pausing and then suddenly whipping their bodies (and hair) into space with twisting torsos, flung-out arms and spinning falls to the floor.
|
|
Union officials also said they hoped the joint efforts would prevent politicians from playing one union against the other when raising money for their campaigns, a practice the unions said they found exasperating but were often powerless to stop.
|
|
As Facebook's Alex Stamos argued yesterday, the real threats that most people face consist primarily of abuse, password reuse, unpatched systems and phishing; problems so well-established that they're not scary any more, they're just exasperating and/or infuriating.
|
|
The scene on Monday night was an exasperating end for Mr. Trump to a month of negotiations between the White House and Senate Republicans in an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature domestic legacy.
|
|
Exasperating as it may be to learn that a man who ran for president by attacking Obamacare only now seems to understand it, Trump's change-of-heart speaks to the importance of making personal appeals in order to influence his politics.
|
|
I'm not a science expert, but I'd wager that relief you feel when someone swiftly zips up the back of your dress after you have been struggling for an exasperating twenty minutes is the equivalent to one-tenth of an orgasm.
|
|
Toggle "Turn Browsing History on/off" to Off Note: You can also clear your entire browsing history here by clicking the "Remove all items" button Meanwhile, you can also turn off personalized ads, which many customers find eerie and exasperating.
|
|
This isn't to slag TJ or DMChristop, who obviously had their tongues firmly in cheek when they sent these questions this way, it's more to say: yes, Twitter is exasperating, and no, it's not just your experience with it, it's everybody's.
|
|
Alas, "Hadrian," which tells of this first-century Roman emperor's love affair with Antinous, a beautiful young Greek man, is an exasperating opera, all the more so because whole stretches of Mr. Wainwright's music are beguiling, inventive and unabashedly romantic.
|
|
Instead, a mere six weeks after the crisis flared, the company offered a different solution, a new bottle with the sorts of safety elements now familiar (if at times exasperating) to every shopper: cotton wad, foil seal, childproof cap, plastic strip.
|
|
So, it's complicated, which is why it is exasperating that the face-off between Cannes and Netflix is too often merely framed as evidence of French intransigence, of a fusty festival not being hip to the demands of the young audience.
|
|
We see Phyllis (Celia Imrie), whose entitlement runs from charmingly batty to totally exasperating, pestering Sam to buy her a lavender suit at the hardware store—even though both women know that the hardware store will carry no such thing.
|
|
Into her accounts of working with these eminent, often exasperating writers she weaves recollections of malfunctioning tape recorders, grandstanding sources, and her travails as a professional and a mother commuting across the Atlantic, working in a field dominated by men.
|
|
Over the course of its six seasons, Lost shed the impatient and the unimaginative (and, some might say, the sane) viewership, and left a core of devoted, occasionally exasperating followers who had invested too much time in the show to stop watching.
|
|
Over the remaining installments — Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy — Murderbot tries to steer clear of exasperating humans; thwart an interstellar megacorp that's breaking some serious laws; and figure out its past, including why it's named "Murderbot" in the first place.
|
|
And March's relationship with his no-nonsense 13-year-old daughter Holly (Angourie Rice) can be exasperating — she's a precocious movie-kid stereotype, an adult in a size-extra-small child suit — but it provides some warmth, and plenty of comic setups.
|
|
For example, Emmanuel Macron, France's economy minister, once suggested that the Catholic (and Orthodox) belief in a sacrament of forgiveness helped to explain the happy-go-lucky attitude of the European south to profligacy and debt which the Protestant north found so exasperating.
|
|
But as exhausting and exasperating as the debate about tech companies' role in policing content may be for many Americans, I often watch it with envy and wish we could have similarly vigorous discussions about free speech and due process in China.
|
|
So for the past several years, that brief ritual has given fans of Barcelona who sympathize with the independence cause the chance to whistle and jeer the song — and the royalty in attendance — with impunity, subverting the stately ritual and exasperating their critics.
|
|
Each of those three is endearing and exasperating: Wayne, a friendly hunter with a disturbing past; Henry, a wizened fisherman whose wife of more than 50 years has died; and Zach, a young man struggling to move away and manage his own troubles.
|
|
When she's finally able to get in contact with the Spirit of Fire and Captain Cutter, the confidence and determination that she instills in her troops as they have to hold the line for backup is what kept me focused during exasperating moments of gameplay.
|
|
Professionals really do care about performance, so the nearly three-year wait for a new Mac Pro is exasperating to many — not least Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who says he'd like to support the Mac "when Apple makes a good computer" with modern GPUs.
|
|
Reader Question • 502 votes Mosquitoes have been much in the news lately because their bites can spread nasty diseases like the Zika virus, but regardless of whether mosquitoes are carrying a dangerous pathogen, their bites can be exasperating for a simple reason: They itch.
|
|
Think of it as a way to avoid those exasperating moments when you come back from a trip and you realize that one of your friends was in the same place at the same time — but you're only finding out when it's too late.
|
|
We also discuss the early hours of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, which may lean too heavily on it's roots, and the campaign of Steel Division 2, which feels different enough from the first game that Rob is questioning whether it's interesting or exasperating.
|
|
So now here we are four years later and for me to hear this refrain over and over again—some people seemingly very uninterested in my policies, my proposals, or my experience, but mostly focused on my anatomy—really I found to be exasperating and enraging.
|
|
Hillary Clinton's controversies—her use of a private email server, the conflicts of interest stemming from her husband's work at the Clinton Foundation, and the generally exasperating way the Clintons have addressed these issues—have been unfairly put on par with Trump's far more egregious sins.
|
|
It has been a strange group stage for England at these European Championships, a preliminary stanza that promised much, delivered somewhat less and, after an exasperating 0-0 draw with Slovakia at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on Monday, leaves the Three Lions in a relative identity crisis.
|
|
And Deyneka notes that supernatural teen shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Vampire Diaries, and The Originals feature "actual queer characters [whether human or vampire] that are positive role models" (even if the series also have an exasperating habit of killing off their relatable lesbians).
|
|
Deep into Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers," his first book in six years, lies a precise arrangement of words that could function as a Rorschach test — a sentence that will strike you as reassuring if you love his best-selling books or exasperating if you don't.
|
|
But that scene also highlights the lack of gusto in the longer-form criminality that follows, a training-wheels version of a heist in which obstacles are overcome with exasperating ease, and in which the very limited instances of conflict get ironed out as soon as they crop up.
|
|
Creed II's most exasperating failing is its inability to justify why Adonis is so easily baited into a fight that everyone warns him is a bad idea, on behalf of a father he barely knew, against a total stranger who himself had nothing to do with that deadly match.
|
|
Sawada told the Guardian in 2015 that he wanted his hotel, Henn na, to have a staff that was 90 percent robotic, but according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, many of these machines are decorative hunks of metal at best and exasperating at worst.
|
|
Much as the holiday lights flashing around Beirut seemed to defy the exasperating reality of Lebanon's electrical grid, which is so overwhelmed that daily blackouts are scheduled across the city, the Lebanese embrace of Christmas can be read as a temporary reprieve from the economic and political gloom.
|
|
By all rights, his pictorial illogic should be a source of irritation, but instead of exasperating over the jagged planar disruptions, jarring color, indecipherable cultural appropriations of Japonisme and Chinoiserie, and abrupt transitions between softly molded forms and flat, abstract patterns, we find ourselves surrendering to their stupendously beautiful decadence.
|
|
That young people are burdened with college debt, student debt that they don't know where their new jobs are going to be coming from, plus I think what's exasperating everything is that the more addicted we are to social media, games the more disconnected from our own wisdom our peace our own strength.
|
|
Personally I like how it painstakingly draws out the exhausting mental flowcharts and loop-de-loops it takes to try to understand someone—Margot puzzling over Robert's dolphin emojis, whether she can feel safe in his car, what's up with his cats—and how exasperating it is when the effort isn't reciprocated.
|
|
For many years, the troubles roiling very different countries in the Middle East have been making headlines, and while I can understand that Mr. Hunter wants to keep the focus on the interpersonal relationships among his American characters, I began to find the lack of specific discussion of the region faintly exasperating.
|
|
Ms. Nogueira, a beautiful ringer for Rachel McAdams, cannot quite succeed in making her character sympathetic, but Lauren does come across as all too human, the kind of exasperating friend whose smarts and catty humor make her good company, thinly disguising the self-contempt that she takes out by undermining those around her.
|
|
She grew up swaddled in cultural luxury, knowing Lenny, born Louis, variously as "Lennuhtt" (from a private childhood language), Maestro, El Caballero and — when he grew older and more exasperating — simply LB. The many nicknames bespoke a fundamental restlessness both professional and personal; Bernstein père was ceaselessly teaching and talking, frugging and fretting.
|
|
Fans of the television series Better Call Saul experienced the strange and exasperating malady through the unraveling of Michael McKean's Chuck McGill—a hard-nosed lawyer and former bright star of his profession who wrapped himself in space blankets, lit his home with lanterns, and made guests leave their mobile phones in the mailbox outside.
|
|
Mr. McCann had two mantras: to have as much fun as possible and to keep working to survive, whether he was appearing at the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention in Newark or as the exasperating neighbor bellowing "Hi, guy!" through a shared medicine chest in an early 1970s commercial for Right Guard deodorant.
|
|
That is the most exasperating thing about playing the Penguins, as Rinne and Nashville have discovered: They can make mistakes and bungle chances and put their own goalie, Matt Murray, in undesirable positions, but the Penguins feature so many players who can crush souls in an instant that it is foolish to ever discount them.
|
|
The more politically engaged they become, the more they are likely to be required to make the kind of unsatisfying compromises they once decried, to join in the same ugly debates they once found so distasteful, and to reconcile themselves to the slow, even halting pace of democratic decision-making they once found so exasperating.
|
|
The reason Reconstruction failed, and ended with the reimposition of an apartheid system, had to do with an exasperating coalition of self-styled Northern "reformers" and the openly revanchist, anti-Grant Southerners—misguided progressives making common cause with true reactionaries against a well-meaning middle—and also with a general battle fatigue that afflicted the nation.
|
|
The bumbling, exasperating, sometimes corrupt, often oblivious Democratic Party — always the party of immigrants and (however belatedly) the party of people of color — is the party of inclusion, and its win this year, in the face of relentless demagoguery and racism, makes it truer than ever to say it was a good night for our democracy.
|
|
"It's simply exasperating to see National Parks' maintenance accounts being raided at the same exact time as so many of us are pleading with Congress to fix the [maintenance backlog] for our Parks, Wildlife Refuges, BLM lands, and National Forests," Collin O'Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, said in a statement, referring to the Bureau of Land Management.
|
|
Impact 2314, Red Bulls 285 | Second leg | Montreal advances on aggregate, 280-221 HARRISON, N.J. — Yet another promising autumn ended in familiar, exasperating fashion for the Red Bulls, who were knocked out of the M.L.S. Eastern Conference semifinals Sunday after a second successive defeat, 210-10, to a supposedly inferior opponent that had dropped its last seven matches at the stadium in Harrison.
|
|
This is made most vivid in his memoirs when, recalling the exasperating run-up to the Battle of Corinth, in the fall of 1862, he tried to talk terrain to his then superiors: Our centre and right were, at this time, extended so that the right of the right wing was probably five miles from Corinth and four from the works in their front.
|
|
On Monday, April 11, Ms. Louis-Dreyfus, 55, who was in New York to host the April 16 broadcast of "Saturday Night Live" (where she spent a few exasperating years as a cast member in the 1980s), was seated in the lobby lounge of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, dressed in workout clothes and rectangular eyeglasses and sipping coffee as she spoke about her and her characters' ascents.
|
|
But even though Carleton has found a new routine that works for her, she says she would never insist on someone else trying it: Fielding other people's opinions about what would clear her skin had been exasperating, and she found carrying out their advice (following an extensive, multi-step routine) was tiring "Part of how I ended up in that deep hole is people saying, ' You need to do this,'" she said.
|
|
Sprawling, repetitive, occasionally splendid, and just as often exasperating, "4 3 2 1" is never quite dull, but it comes too close to tedium too often; there is no good reason for this novel to be eight hundred and sixty-six pages long, or for every Archie's love of baseball and movies and French poetry to be rhapsodized over, or for every major headline of the nineteen-fifties and sixties to come under review.
|
|
Thanks for visiting Dot Earth today and I hope you'll sift back for posts on enduring issues and concepts like the "population cluster bombs" that are the real peril from high fertility rates; evidence that humanity's amazing, sometimes-exasperating diversity is perhaps our species' most adaptive trait; and the idea that when numerical goals seem out of reach, there's much that can be accomplished by fostering traits in society that guarantee some progress.
|
|