Sentence examples for frustrating exercise from inspiring English sources

Web browsing on a handheld is generally a frustrating exercise in scrolling around up and down and side to side in frustration.

Homework was a frustrating exercise and the girl's grades reflected her difficulties.

"If at the end you don't, it's a very frustrating exercise," he said.

His homework became a frustrating exercise in writing once, and then, at the teacher's request, writing again, just for legibility.

"I know that this is a frustrating exercise for you," Ms. Lynch acknowledged after another in a string of brief responses.

Taking on the cartels that supply most of the illegal drugs consumed in the United States has been a frustrating exercise for Mexico.

It was one of those frustrating exercises in which I could sense that a really great salad was lurking right around the corner just out of my reach.

Whether Borges is in fact remotely suitable for cinematic adaptation is another question entirely — lots of reviewers hated the film (Variety called it a "wretched... bleary-eyed fever dream"; the LA Times "a frustrating... exercise in tedium and pretentiousness).

(No women took part in either study, an omission that is common and frustrating in exercise science).

The new definition should render unnecessary such frustrating intellectual exercises.

This gap in knowledge makes earthquake prediction a frustrating and chancy exercise, and complicates the effort to calculate the risk that a human construction like a water reservoir or a geothermal power plant could inadvertently set off a deadly quake.