Sentence examples for source of chagrin from inspiring English sources

But since he entered the governor's race this spring, the Michigan-reared Republican who has lived outside Boston for three decades—has floated comfortably ahead of his four Democratic opponents, like a favoured native son.This is a source of chagrin for the state's Democrats, who desperately want to win back the governor's seat after 12 years of Republican rule.

The merger announcement delighted al-Qaeda's then deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who described it at the time as "a source of chagrin, frustration and sadness" for Algeria's authorities.

Love the word or hate it, Hoosiers are people from Indiana, regardless of whether they attended Indiana University -- a potential source of chagrin for graduates of rival Purdue University, whose mascot is the equally idiosyncratic "boilermaker".

However, this effort was driving the province close to bankruptcy, and in 1923 Greenfield announced an end to the handouts (the bill authorizing the last of these was a source of chagrin for MLAs from all parties, both because it marked the end of direct assistance for farmers and because the last of the assistance was itself so expensive).

De Palma mentioned two enduring sources of chagrin: getting shot in the leg by the cops for hot-wiring a motor scooter when he was twenty, and casting the bronzed, wooden Cliff Robertson in "Obsession" in order to get the film made.

As a distraction from his various sources of chagrin, Esposito sets out to write a novel, based on a horrendous unsolved crime from the bad old days of the 70s: the rape and murder of a young woman in 1974, an event for which Esposito conceived a futile obsession, and which poisoned his career and his life.

There were two new medal categories in Austin, each a source of some chagrin to the purists.

Alexander at the same age had conquered the known world, while Caesar was just a minor Roman official, a source of severe chagrin to the ambitious future autocrat.

That a cinema as beautiful, as diversely programmed and as dedicated to the promotion of film culture should appear in my absence was always a source of some chagrin.

He gave a little hop of chagrin and cried, "You . . .

They even died of chagrin, of broken hearts.