Sentence examples for notes of frustration from inspiring English sources

André Villas-Boas tried his best to sound relaxed about the situation but it did not take a behavioural expert to detect notes of frustration and exasperation in the Tottenham manager.

But he sounded a note of frustration.

She ends the project on a note of frustration.

One of the first police reports, dated June 25 1935, opens on a note of frustration.

But –" and there's a note of frustration in his voice, "there's no story there".

Mr. Norich expressed a note of frustration that knaidel was spelled that way in a nationally televised contest.

More often than not, the entries end on a note of frustration about bureaucracy and administrative bloat.

"In the meantime," Mr. Ayres said, with a note of frustration in his voice, "we've got to get people to answer the phone".

Mr. Putin sounded a note of frustration at a meeting of his National Security Council with top military commanders present, saying, "We spend colossal resources on the military, and we allow the military budget to be wasted on peripheral issues that have nothing in common with either the army's combat readiness nor with its direct supplies".

Other DIY signs strike a similar note of frustration with bad owners, including one in New York to "the person who doesn't clean up after your dog (including lifting him to put him into the tree boxes)".

As Mother Superior, Victoria Clark hits the right note of frustration, rather than comic crispness.