Sentence examples for thwarted at from inspiring English sources

The expectations of a conventional mystery are thwarted at every turn.

Michel's efforts are thwarted at every turn in an unrelenting sequence of phantasmagoric events.

Despite funding to tackle corruption, efforts by Afghan and international officials are thwarted at every turn.

Six months of reading and re-reading - only to be thwarted at the last!

They were thwarted at every turn -- by a duck and her ducklings, by passing nuns.

Afghan officials said they thwarted at least two other attempted suicide bombings in Kabul, shooting and killing both attackers.

Grown-up Tom is vocal about his ambitions for his family, and he feels thwarted at every turn.

Three attempted attacks were thwarted at the last minute in the past year, in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Thailand, he said.

A bomb plot was thwarted at a middle school in Riverside County, about 100 miles north of Santee.

They use their art to show us personal love, idealized or thwarted, at its most intense and exacting.

Stenson has been thwarted at the Masters before, but routinely because of basic shortcomings rather than some alternative intervention.