Sentence examples for slight exasperation from inspiring English sources

Slight exasperation has crept into the voices of the Spanish players.

"Half the time they'll listen to us and half the time they won't," noted one speaker with slight exasperation.

ROTATION TALK Joe Girardi showed some slight exasperation at repeated questions in a news conference about A. J. Burnett, and Girardi's plans for the rotation.

Earlier this year, Atlas confided in Dwight Garner, over at Paper Cuts, his slight exasperation at writers begging him not to send out galleys that had errors in them: "Are you aware that it costs $4.50 to produce a galley?

"Do you want higher, lower, what?" a percussionist asked with a slight tone of exasperation.

"Now," Mr. Coleman said, a slight tone of exasperation in his voice, "I just have to find out where it is".

"What conditions would have to exist for you to recommend to the president that the current strategy is not working?" Mrs. Clinton asked General Petraeus, with only a slight edge of exasperation in her voice.

So it was with the slightest hint of exasperation, à la The Simpsons's Comic Book Guy, that Matos answered the inquiry, to which the questioner responded that for him, electronic music went mainstream in the late 80s when MARS-FM hit the airwaves of Los Angeles.

He says it all with a patient smile but there is also a slight hint of controlled exasperation, the sense that he's fed up with being defined by a show that was launched 13 years ago.

Soutine's most celebrated and penetrating picture of his benefactor, completed in 1929 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shows her seated with a slight but unmistakable air of exasperation in an ocelot coat over a long dress, the skirt in rich folds, her lips pursed in impatience, her hands calling attention to a small, proud waist.

She sighed in exasperation.