Sentence examples for a chagrin from inspiring English sources

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The most poignant sentence in "Nulle Part" evokes a memory of being lost as a little girl: "In this public park where my parents showed up to look for me — they who never looked for me anywhere — I ran toward them with so much joy that its lack of all proportion was a chagrin".

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Then came Dylan's great album Desire, which featured seven songs co-written by Levy and Dylan including Hurricane, a chagrin-driven tale about the unjustly imprisoned boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

On his side, Gorner has a man named Chagrin, a sadist from Viet Nam who had his brain altered by Soviet surgeons so he can feel neither compassion nor pain.

"They deserve to have a home", Teresa Chagrin, an animal care and control specialist at PETA, told me.

She wanted to be annoyed but felt instead a vague chagrin.

Coach Mike D'Antoni showed a little chagrin, but he held his ground.

His grandfather's suicide is an aside, and his mother's silence on the subject of these two painful paternal secrets a tolerable chagrin.

The statement released by Gerrard upon news of his LA Galaxy exit conveyed a certain chagrin over the way his time in MLS unfolded.

Then I watch the black guy for signs that he shares my disquiet, and sometimes I think I can see it in his eyes, a veiled chagrin at both his company and the bald contrivance that roped him into it.

She flirts even with the disconcerted Biegler, who disapproves of her but also feels a certain chagrin: she's young, she's sexual, and, looking at her, he feels that he missed the party.

But they have also been met with more than a little chagrin by tourists and locals, many of whom could not resist noting that the city might have larger problems at a time when Italy is skating sideways through an economic crisis.

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