Sentence examples for mere frustration from inspiring English sources

But during the first hour of the debate, candidates' voices communicated anger less often than mere frustration.

It took rabbit ears to witness the Colts' season teetering on the brink — inching, inching, inching toward disaster — only to be hauled back to mere frustration by a furious 130-second, 3-touchdown rush.

The paltry result of their electoral efforts has led to far more than mere voter "frustration".

When I ask if it's true he wanted to buy the rights to Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park, just the memory of how Steven Spielberg beat him to it by mere hours sparks hissing frustration: "That motherfucker!" While Cameron is known now for spending as much on films as small countries spend on their military, he in fact started out with small budgets.

"I get to replace frustration with mere anxiety," he says, "and that's probably a step up".

Over all, however, these frustrations present mere skirmishes in a global war that Murdoch is winning.

They appeared to be heading for a night of frustration and a mere draw until the final minute.

An attorney for Wright had previously argued that the case involved only "mere puffery and the venting of frustration," and that Wright was a "good, law-abiding man, who may be a not-so-good judge of character".

The movie's swing and energy are dubious, offering a mere gloss of normalcy to the frustrations and injustices, the backroom deals and sub rosa violence of daily life.

As the year comes to a close, those images simply reinforce for many travelers the sense of frustration that has replaced the mere resignation of early in the year.

It cannot be stripped of all unpleasantness and made a mere expression of pique, eccentricity, or generalized political frustration.