It was frustrating that she didn’t have clear symptoms that could point to a particular illness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was frustrating, being so close to them and not being able to hear. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita’s continuous demanding tone was the most frustrating part of her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was disappointing and frustrating, and I didn’t have much to tell Mum when I got back. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I can linger on is the thought of Zero hidden behind his insufferable mask, frustratingly opaque, telling me what to do. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For us, looking back at these events and trying to understand them, there is a frustrating paradox at work here. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

So the Egypt gang waited and waited and it was all pretty frustrating. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom says it must be so frustrating because my grandfather used to be such an active man, but he never lets it bother him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Don found this frustrating and he called me Qhipu more in irritation than in amity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been incredibly frustrating to know that you had such a valuable skill to share in wartime, and not to be able to share it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I pointed at, How frustrating, how pathetic, how sad. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A frustrating epilogue to their story is that the 586th Regiment was never awarded the honorary and elite title of Guards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This reality can be frustrating for those who strive to help ghetto youth “turn their lives around.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Terribly frustrating, the way the Nazis jam the airways so that the German people can only listen to broadcasts approved by the Nazis. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The memories I had now were frustratingly faint—whispers of the past. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

By the end of the third day, it began to be something of a frustrating experience. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The details of their journey and arrival there are not known beyond the fact that the Lord of Hades was perfectly aware of their intention and amused himself by frustrating it in a novel way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like how nervous she gets before a big community service event or how frustrating it is when straight girls flirt with her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Do you see how frustrating this is, by the way? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for the farmers, the death rate then dropped in the second year to 90 percent and eventually to 25 percent, frustrating hopes of eradicating rabbits completely from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first few years were frustrating, as legislators and planners bickered over money and protocols. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After a few frustrating attempts to get help for mental and physical problems, they often walked away, convinced the government didn’t care. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was becoming frustrating and he had a momentary loss of temper—as he would have done in the past, when he was the other person. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

After my frustrating time of trying to write about my neighborhood the way I had seen other published authors write about theirs, I stopped writing for a while. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

How frustrating it must be to come so close to your goal, to have Oak and the crown in one place, to have the lords and ladies of Faerie assembled. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was the most frustrating feeling in the world, second only to the inherent helplessness that came with being trapped in a camp, all of your decisions made for you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Imagine how frustrating it would be to end that tune without singing the last note or playing the final chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Atoms were the ultimate particles, forever frustrating our attempts to break them into smaller pieces. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would laugh if it wasn’t so frustrating. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was what she nearly always drew—the other city—and every time she drew it, she had the same frustrating feeling: there was more to be drawn. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is as it should be, but I sometimes found it frustrating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had turned out, by far, to be the most frustrating of the rules he was required to obey. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Communications were not very efficient in those days, particularly in the townships where few people owned telephones, and it was a frustrating task to oversee a strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living in this world of complete uncertainty is more and more frustrating. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I also can’t seem to get the hurdles down, and it’s getting so frustrating. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He’d kept his gloves on, something the guards might have easily taken note of, and a frustrating concession to his weakness, but if he hadn’t, he felt fairly sure he’d have gone completely mad. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I said no to the assignment only because I thought it would be unbearably frustrating to spend two months in the shadow of Everest without ascending higher than Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was frustrating to spend precious minutes of one’s visit explaining to a warder the different branches of one’s family tree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple didn’t know what, exactly, he was doing, but it was definitely frustrating. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So I was having a frustrating time with the books, and the videos weren’t much better. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an extremely frustrating and maddening process. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

About five minutes later, Garrett pulls his favorite and most frustrating travel maneuver. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The dead were just as frustrating as the living. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How could a simple beep be so frustrating? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On and on she goes, and though this would normally be so frustrating, to listen to someone talk as much as the frogs make noise at night, I realize I don’t actually mind. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The frustrating part is pop-tent airlocks can attach to other airlocks! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so frustrating how he was doing that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He might have a frustrating time for a while. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The result is a mix of fun and frustrating. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was tremendously frustrating not to be able to touch my wife, to speak tenderly to her, to have a private moment together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after death, the old man could be extremely frustrating. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Most frustrating of all, Werfel could tell that he and the elf were very similar in a lot of ways. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Why did she always have to be so frustrating? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Keeping up with Farmer by email was sometimes frustrating because he didn’t always identify where he was. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was frustrating at times because students did not want to participate in student government. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But the Rosses and Mrs. Chung were frustratingly careful parents, and it looked as if they were going to be the very last ones to stop worrying. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was all too familiar with the whims of Lake Washington, from his coxswain days, and the weather on the Oakland Estuary had been typically but frustratingly calm and pleasant. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the reality of the injury set in, when it became apparent to Boobie that there was no magic wand, the grueling regimen of rehabilitation became more frustrating and futile. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian answered in a collapsing voice, weary suddenly of shouting so much, of the whole frustrating, exasperating, ridiculous situation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The indignities of segregation continued to make travel frustrating and unpleasant. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

All of which is particularly frustrating for us, since we have so much evidence of the wonderful-looking instruments of the Ancient World, but no way of bringing them to life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Their new lives—the frustrating job interviews, the bills that arrive with red warning letters on the outside—are consequences of a decision made at age eighteen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was so frustrating talking to Ana, because she refused to see it from his perspective. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Debbie,” she said, “I’m so sorry. It’s a very frustrating situation.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

For such a seminal moment in a field that demands rigorous procedural records, the full circumstances of the cyclotron’s birth remain frustratingly indistinct. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know anything more frustrating than to be around people talking something you can’t understand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The failure to find Howard after so much effort was frustrating and puzzling. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Such stroking and soothing murmurs would have been a release for Cecilia after a frustrating day whose various crosscurrents of feeling she had preferred not to examine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Since I'd become a permanent resident, I'd suffered through two frustrating presidential elections without being allowed to vote, and it was important to me to exercise my democratic right in the next one. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, Holmesy, I shouldn’t say that. It’s just frustrating sometimes.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Construction delays elsewhere on the grounds were especially frustrating for Olmsted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know how frustrating it is to see something differently from someone else, or in my case, everyone else, and I feel sorry for her. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Theo is good at his job, but it’s terrifically frustrating for him right now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Vilonia Kline said, frustratingly, to my father as we drove back home. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

External realities of a frustrating nature she obliterated by refusing to believe in them, and when one resisted her disbelief she raged at it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It is very frustrating,” Mrs. Sen apologized, with an emphasis on the second syllable of the word. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It was frustrating to be driven away from two jobs that we very much enjoyed, but a starter home for our family would have cost over $600,000.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And about what I was saying before—about the way you react. Even though I find it frustrating, it's still a million times better than not having you in my life.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The frustrating position then was that although they could place the various rocks and fossils in order by age, they had no idea how long any of those ages were. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was tiring and frustrating, trying to wrap each ornament the way Mother likes, to get them ready for next year. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinking it will get less frustrating, not hearing your thoughts. But it just gets worse and worse.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His letters told me little of his day-to-day life, which I guessed to be frustratingly dull for such a brilliant wizard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I quickly step all the way back to the far wall, putting the six frustrating feet between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It is always so frustrating to have your questions unanswered time and time again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, under Nugent, its activities were devoted to frustrating the work of the religious authorities, and to remaining obscure and apparently harmless. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And yet that, too, had been frustrating, causing her to fear that her career was somehow an indulgence, unnecessary. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the issues that hindered the peace process, none was more devastating and frustrating than the escalation of violence in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just really frustrating for me. I’ve never had a person hold out so long, you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I find it frustrating that he never visits. My dad never visits 2013-01-09T01:00:00Z

Once in a while, there was a snippet of a film, which was frustrating, especially when Mr. Gilbert conducted Rota’s waltz music for the great Visconti film “The Leopard.” New York Philharmonic Begins Season at the Movies 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Yet what makes Wolff’s account at once undeniably entertaining and lamentably unrewarding is precisely what makes covering this administration so frustrating. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

"The result is a book that is curiously flat and leaden, and one whose central ambition, to explain its chief subject, is frustratingly unfulfilled." Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies wins Costa prize after unanimous vote 2013-01-29T20:33:00Z

The attention was both flattering and frustrating to the family. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

There's nothing more frustrating than a mediocre screen adaptation that robs would-be players of the agency to maneuver into more exciting territory and viewers of a story with soul. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Over the years, “Mad Men” has chronicled change while frustrating many viewers with a certain cynicism about how quickly it happens. 'Mad Men' Watch: Small Steps and Great Leaps 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

As it moves forward and back in time, and between Iraq and Philadelphia, Ms. Vogel’s meandering play never brings into focus the psychology of the central figure, which remains frustratingly opaque. Theater Review: ‘Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq’ by Paula Vogel 2014-03-28T22:10:08Z

It’s a great living, but it also gets very frustrating. Arts & Leisure: ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ Scott Aukerman 2012-05-30T15:31:35Z

Despite her minor rebellions, Mona remains a frustratingly opaque character; a stereotypically troubled woman whose eventual awakening merits a shrug at most. ‘Donkeyhead’ Review: You Really Can’t Go Home Anymore 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

So it was somewhat frustrating that Cho—an actress, stand-up comedian, and musician—wasn’t onstage for being nominated for a role. Margaret Cho’s squeamish Globes cameo: Why her North Korean bit was so weird to watch 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

“To me, it’s a frustrating trend — what’s the point of experiencing art if you don’t expect to be surprised?” Brace Yourself in Act II: Trigger Warnings Come to the Stage 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s pretty frustrating, but here’s something I know for sure: You have accepted the risk and sent your child to day care. Perspective | School is reopening. Should my child go? 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The panel commended the author for her portrait of the frustrating grind of the job and the often-long wait for a payoff. Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologist 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Men would make me laugh, sometimes in situations so frustrating I’d been on the verge of tears. Modern Love: A Side Order of Romance, Please 2011-06-23T21:59:15Z

Although she loved aspects of her job, the long hours, huge caseload and frustrating bureaucracy would also reduce her to tears. Oona King: 'I couldn't resist Dancing On Ice' 2013-01-04T22:00:02Z

It's frustrating, sometimes, to never see the actors truly addressing each other. Review: 'Last Five Years' gets a poignant revival 2013-04-03T00:03:11Z

“Hate” is at times a sloppy, frustrating and repetitive book. How France Became a Dangerous Place to Be a Jew 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

It's very frustrating to have to beg progressive media and progressive folks to talk about this issue, because it's happening constantly. "Daily Show" co-creator on how Trump isn't funny and comedy could help save abortion 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

To be enslaved to the conventions of narrative, or to the expectations and demands of financial backers, can be frustrating. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

My client is still in good spirts because that's his nature, but I find this extremely frustrating and pointless. I'm a public defender. I don't want my elderly client to die in prison from coronavirus 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z

The complete lack of captions is potentially frustrating for fleeting visits, but it does force you to look at the pieces objectively, before discovering their providence. Pull up a chair: inside the V&A's brilliant new furniture gallery 2012-11-27T19:15:01Z

Digressing across a web of family connections, he delays gratification without frustrating desire. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review 2013-05-26T09:00:01Z

The pace of restitutions has been slow, frustrating tribes that are awaiting the return of their plundered patrimony. As Plundered Items Return to Wounded Knee, Decisions Await 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

But, for D.I.Y. travelers like me, the setup can be frustrating. Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

It was tempting to look for clues in the music because the dance was frustratingly cryptic: patently spiritual in its tone and arms reaching upward, but static in its repetitions. Review: At Fall for Dance Festival, Stepping Out in All Directions 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

As with many plays about death, it does not know how to end, and concludes in a frustrating stasis. Every One | Theatre review 2010-03-23T22:00:00Z

The attempted scientific explanations for time travel come across as sub-"Star Trek" level gobbledygook and, frustratingly, the movie sometimes breaks its own pre-established rules. "Avengers: Endgame": Sloppy plot holes distract from an otherwise cathartic epic 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

But until that moment — and Smith’s tearful, unrehearsed acceptance speech when he won best actor a short time later — it had been a dull and frustrating evening of television. Does the Academy Hold Movies in Contempt? Our Critics Wonder. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

At 18,000 feet, the air holds half the oxygen it does at sea level, a phenomenon I learned the hard way as we tried to pass frustratingly slow trekkers in the deep snow. Hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal Before Roads Take Over 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z

Cessa Heard-Johnson, the dean of students at South Seattle Community College, said she decided to bring her two daughters to the lake after catching frustratingly quick glimpses of the races on television for years. Young fans get a lift from Seafair 2011-08-08T06:04:51Z

For those not at home during the day, this is a frustrating cycle. Perspective | The magical, mystical waterlily: A guide to varieties both hardy and tropical 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a frustrating end to a novel, but that’s part of the appeal. 'The Handmaid’s Tale’ Showrunner Bruce Miller on the Season 1 Finale 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

But as a history of the singer-songwriter phenomenon, which evolved out of folk music and crested during the lull between the Beatles’ breakup and the rise of disco and punk rock, it is frustratingly sketchy. | 'Troubadours': Recalling the Reign of Taylor and King 2011-02-01T23:08:01Z

Instead, 2014 was characterized by loud, frustrating, and often unresolved discussions about justice for women that reached an unprecedented volume. This May Have Been the Best Year for Women Since the Dawn of Time 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

And she often offers insight into her personal motivations by giving a nod to the obstructionism in Washington that she finds frustrating. Michelle Obama out in full force for ‘Barack’s last campaign’

It's frustrating and probably fruitless to wish the women characters spent more time publicly speaking their minds, especially about the way men treat them, and less time holding their tongues. Bless their hearts: The women of Netflix's "Sweet Magnolias" need to do more than pour it out 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

“Travel is such an interesting and complicated and beautiful and frustrating event, whether you think of it for the purpose of bettering oneself or the substantial refugee crisis right now,” said Johnson. Ready When You Are, Terminal C Is Now an Art Destination 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Standing in line at the airport is often the most frustrating and stressful part of air travel. Monday’s Digest: Alaska and American Expand Partnership and Other Airline and Airport News 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

And I know that it’s frustrating for conservatives; they can’t stop Trump. Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she’s cool 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

When parents keep resorting to logic for an emotional problem, we add frustration to an already frustrating situation. Perspective | Using logic to help a child cope with anxiety is, well, illogical 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Gone were Saturday's frustrating lines around the event's big footprint at Exposition Park and the Los Angeles Sports Arena. FYF Fest Day 2: Redemption through Flying Lotus, Haim and more 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Everything was characterized by intense, visual chiaroscuro, an impression clinched by Brandon Stirling Baker’s lighting, with the blend of brightness and shadow mainly heightening — occasionally frustrating — the work’s rapidly changing drama. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Opens Season With Gala 2014-05-09T23:25:13Z

“It was frustrating to read the screenplay and see one thing made up after another,” Esther Newberg, now a top executive at International Creative Management, told People. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

They said it shouldn’t be about frustrating the kids, so now he will be given just one sheet of letters to practice per week. Motherlode Blog: Should Preschoolers Have Homework? 2012-02-22T16:49:08Z

The color would remain frustratingly light, with a flat flavor. Coffee bags are changing instant coffee's reputation— but don't throw out your French Press just yet 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

There are great things in the play, and there are really frustrating things in the play. Why Thornton Wilder Matters in the Trump Era 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

He’s often praised for talking about his feminist opinions both as a man and as a filmmaker, but it’s easy to see why some women find this frustrating. Joss Whedon: “Every time I’m confronted with true misogyny, I’m stunned” 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

He built around Murphy and Piscopo, and while focusing on stars made ratings sense, it was frustrating for the new talent. “‘SNL’ is a wonderful experience, but it also tests the limits of human emotions”: Gary Kroeger looks back on his three seasons 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

“Something Wild” is propulsive, tender, frustrating and entirely realistic. When Adult Daughters Realize Their Mother Is Being Abused 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s as small and frustrating a conclusion as we expected. ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Takes a Hard Look at the Supreme Court Justice and His Accusers 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z

Very frustrating in real life, but extremely useful in stories. Top writing tips: Morris Gleitzman 2012-05-30T13:21:10Z

The show’s light touch never falters, and Ms. Shaw’s delivery maintains its deadpan edge even when she’s lamenting the loss of cherished memories and the frustrating sensation of not even knowing what was lost. Theater Review: ‘Ruff,’ Peggy Shaw’s New Solo Show at Performance Space 122 2013-01-13T22:41:46Z

For both Elizabeth and Emily, the path to qualification as doctors was circuitous and frustrating. The Determined Siblings Who Became America’s First Women Doctors 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The most frustrating thing about "Her Smell," however, is its vague understanding of exactly what is supposed to be going on with Becky. "Her Smell": Elisabeth Moss can't save this humorless, grunge-era "Spinal Tap" knockoff 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Thinking about these motives too long becomes frustrating and makes Ted really not all that likeable. The worst thing about "Ted Lasso" is Ted Lasso himself 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

It feels, excitingly, like a sequence of experiments, but also, frustratingly, like a series of sketches. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

And it's frustrating because all of this is correctable, and he's refusing to even try. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You have your motivation for weight loss. Your husband needs to find his own. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

Reign was glad to see films such as “Fences” and “Moonlight” bring in nominations for black actors earlier this year, but she found the tweets and headlines declaring the end of #OscarsSoWhite frustrating. Her #OscarsSoWhite campaign changed how Hollywood deals with race. Now she’s taking on HBO. 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

It led to a frustratingly sporadic career marked by much smaller roles in “Monsters and Men” and “Black Mirror.” Nicole Beharie on ‘Miss Juneteenth’ and the Danger of Labels 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

The hourlong blend of percussion music, video projections and recited texts is an honorable but frustrating attempt to grapple with complex themes, including politics, communal identity and rites of passage. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Looking at them lined up in a neat row, politely static, can be frustratingly anticlimactic. A Nick Cave Survey With Plenty of Bells but No Whistles 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

In a 1977 talk, Aaron Copland complained that concerts by America’s orchestras were still frustratingly dominated by the “great works of the past.” Review: Celebrating 40 Years of Championing American Composers 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

But even the terms of their complicity, the relationship that they and Hatidze share, remains a frustrating blank. “Honeyland,” Reviewed: A Gripping, Frustrating Documentary About a Beekeeper’s Fragile Isolation 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Back home, for example, a frustrating inspection of my photos revealed that I somehow walked right by a copy of the “To Kill a Mockingbird” script scrawled with Gregory Peck’s handwritten notes. In Los Angeles, a new museum celebrates the art of moviemaking 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

What is frustrating were the moments of smartness that went unexplored, the provocative ideas left hanging. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Into the Dark, With a Cliche or Two 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z

These initiatives are a little frustrating, but it’s better than no action at all, said Brandy Clark, who will be part of CMT’s Next Women of Country tour this year. Can equality pledges fix country music’s gender problem? 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

That wavering, in some ways the most interesting plot thread, is also the least developed, and Stan’s dilemma remains frustratingly nebulous. Movie Review: ‘The Happy Sad,’ Based on Ken Urban’s Play 2013-08-15T23:40:38Z

I love music and I love films, but at first I was only able to tell stories through music because film was out of reach, which was frustrating for me. Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z

The woman once known as "Gorilla Glue girl" said the false claims of fraud are especially frustrating after everything she’s been through, as she simply wants to pay the money forward. Woman who sprayed hair with Gorilla Glue says her $23G GoFundMe is under investigation 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Most frustrating for him, his tongue hangs heavy in his mouth, the result of a stroke in 1996, and the once-ringing diction is now slurred. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

As for that tiny space, will the actors find the physical limitations frustrating? Onstage ‘Deliverance’ Hews to the Novel, Not the Film 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

At this time last year, advertisers and broadcasters were heading into a protracted, contentious and frustrating upfront market. Less drama, more money in TV dealmaking season 2010-05-07T19:23:00Z

That we’re all playing mind games is sort of funny, but it’s also frustrating.” The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

Rather, it’s Lawrence’s women, drawn with a capacious, conflicted sympathy that recognizes how frustrating it is for a keen-minded person to try to carve satisfaction from a stifling domestic world. ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ Review: Sons and Wives 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

Then it’s your lucky day—but also a frustrating one. Today’s Movie Trailer: Star Trek Into Darkness Arrives…Sort Of 2012-12-06T15:42:29Z

But this engaging, surreal and occasionally frustrating, 30-episode series about the hunt for a prom queen’s killer was ahead of its time. How “Twin Peaks” shaped the entire golden age of TV 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating, mostly because the people who need to see this film probably won't bother. 'Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine' adds insight to tragedy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Now, after a couple of frustrating years, Moore and his label are optimistic that things are back on track. Country star Kip Moore weathers the Nashville storm to make a comeback 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

That’s one of the frustrating things about being single or just the human condition, really. When being single isn’t a problem to be solved 2014-01-15T23:59:00Z

It’s frustrating when a show capable of so much commits self-owns of such rigid simplicity. The Walking Dead: season 8, episode 12 recap – The Key 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

"It got frustrating, because eventually you want to lay some roots and feel like: this is my place, this represents me." Jamie Bell: From Billy Elliot to Tintin 2011-03-13T00:03:06Z

Mr. Brennan is at his best in his segment on depression, where he does a fine and touching job of explaining this still misunderstood condition and how frustrating it is when people treat it dismissively. Review: ‘Neal Brennan 3 MICS’ Comes at Comedy From Several Directions 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Worst of all, of course, is that they’re exceptionally good, making it frustrating to hate them. Hate-watching Duke vs. Yale: It’s “Batman vs. Superman” for a-holes — not the game America wants, but it’s the one we deserve 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Struggling to fall asleep can be one of the most frustrating things for people to deal with. Viral TikTok shows military technique for falling asleep in 2 minutes 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

How can you get your trip back on track when things go frustratingly wrong? Delays and Cancellations: Know Your Rights 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

The two spent the next few years editing drafts, a sometimes frustrating task, Ms. Rips said, because her point of view kept evolving. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

The lawmaking part of the job, meanwhile, has been frustrating. Freshman blues: Inside the new House Democrats’ unsettling first year 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

There is the occasional redundancy, and some figures enter and exit abruptly — fine in an essay, frustrating in a book. ‘The Book of My Lives’: war and wonder, death and remembrance 2013-03-27T22:25:54Z

The letter read as a sincere explanation to a frustrating situation. Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos comes out on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast: “I am saying something that I’ve never said before publicly” 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

This knee-jerk oversimplification is particularly frustrating coming, as it does, from a steely woman of great intelligence. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Plus, having the film end at a particularly dramatic en media res moment only underscores how frustrating it is to have to wait a whole year for the conclusion. 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1' is just a place-holder 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Learning to accept ambiguities is frustrating but fair. When I met Kirk Douglas, did I ask if he’d assaulted Natalie Wood? No, and here’s why | Hadley Freeman 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

"Beastly" - Just as superficial and obsessed with looks as the characters and the mindset it rails against, which would seem like a bitter, frustrating irony if it merited the emotional reaction to care that much. Capsule reviews: 'Rango,' 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011-03-03T20:03:25Z

He was a brilliant and frustrating figure, equally nettlesome to his enemies and his comrades. When a Kidnapping Ring Targeted New York’s Black Children 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

Still we acknowledge that applying language to this slippery world of aromas, flavors, textures and liquid experiences can be frustrating. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Because “The Fourth Estate” is less a documentary about the Times than a document of the struggle to report on Trump, it is—though smart and gripping—a frustrating heap of unfinished business. How “The Fourth Estate” Attempts to Capture the Still-In-Progress Story of America’s Debasement Under Trump 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

That gets frustrating when you try to have a thoughtful discussion and you create a film that tries to create a thoughtful discussion, that's now how Twitter works, that's not how the internet works. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

When Zilberman’s frustratingly obscured ending arrives not long after, there is the suggestion that it may have been. A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener 2012-11-01T16:04:18Z

The most intriguing and frustrating parts of the show are those fleeting moments in introductory montages when a singer tells us why he or she chose a song. When are these people going to get better? 2011-05-03T13:04:00Z

The tomorrow of “After Yang” is casually multicultural, visually detailed and at times thematically and frustratingly elusive. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

But the most frustrating thing about "A Single Man" is that it isn't wholly dismissible, a glossy trifle we can wave off as easily as Moore's Charley might stub out one of her fuchsia-colored cigarettes. 2009-12-10T01:10:00Z

But such moments can be frustrating, too, because "Pioneers" doesn't have the time or inclination to linger and probe. "Pioneers of Television": The bloody, sexy rise of the American crime show 2011-02-01T15:02:00Z

But when the Schumann in question is his wife, Clara, the name should remind us most of the frustrating lack of recognition still accorded female composers. Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The pandemic was frustrating for us, and my pregnancy was very stressful and not easy. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The digital-video images look badly smeared when projected, which is frustrating in a movie with a lot of photographs of lost and little-seen art. ‘Fifi Howls From Happiness,’ From Mitra Farahani 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A moment later he shoots me a wide-eyed look that seems to say, “If you think this is frustrating, try spending 20 years with the guy.” The Room: the fall and rise of the men behind the 'Citizen Kane of bad movies' 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

The work of being a musician is hard and grueling and sometimes frustrating. Jonathan Biss on Schumann, Beethoven and why 'piano is daily bread' 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

“However, it does get frustrating when we’re rolling and you see people texting, just because there’s a lack of focus that may not be harmful — but it’s certainly not helpful,” Clark said. Directors like Tarantino are banning cellphones from sets — but not everyone is on board 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

To a reader interested in and knowledgeable about the genre, her book is frustratingly devoid of reference notes. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources

More frustrating is the fact that the various workouts are introduced as videos. Can your phone keep you fit? Our writers try 10 big fitness apps – from weightlifting to pilates 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

This, rather frustratingly, means that Maskell is careful to give as little away as possible. Utopia: inside Channel 4's new unsettling thriller 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z

Art is a universal language, and to be excluded from that language was very frustrating for artists who were extremely intelligent, educated and had an opinion. Cheech Marin, Searching for a ‘Chicano Rockwell’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

His message, dealing with power, commercialism and, ostensibly, how we all turn to dust, is frustratingly cursory. Bodytraffic Performs at the Joyce Theater 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Do not let one frustrating scene rob you of six more episodes of filthy, yet loving, hilarity. What You Should Watch This Week if You’re Missing a Favorite Show 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the sumptuous "All I Have to Do is Dream," the romance is frustratingly unrequited. Phil Everly, half of pioneer rock duo, dies at 74 2014-01-04T18:58:57Z

In terms of what’s going on in our Congress and why this has been such an ongoing issue it is very frustrating.” Money at the heart of US gun control problem, says Amy Schumer 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

But just over a week later, Halpern announced that iO was shutting down, frustrating performers who thought the theater was on the verge of substantial change. Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

This is my first time and it was extremely hard and it was a little frustrating but I’m really excited. Ashanti Talks New Album, Love Advice and Dream Duets 2014-03-03T16:15:37Z

Some linguists find the creation of new languages frustrating in light of the accelerating extinction of endangered languages. Game of Thrones' Dothraki inspires boom in fictional languages 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

There were readers who found the whole investigation frustrating, saying newspapers hadn’t treated Reade’s allegations “seriously.” Perspective | Tara Reade, Joe Biden and the limitations of journalism 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Baptist’s approach, treating his subjects like characters in a drama, is ultimately frustrating. ‘Instant Dreams’ Review: Polaroid’s Too-Secret Ingredient 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Another long pause, over 10 seconds, as the crowd applauds, before he pivots: “It’s really frustrating, because I am.” Jaboukie Young-White: A Comic Prodigy With a Veteran’s Killer Moves 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The world might be full of horrifying, frustrating and straight-up mystifying news, but every once in a while, someone does something really good that is worthy of widespread attention. Woman pens amazing newspaper retraction in support of transgender son 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

That’s just one of the many reasons filming birds is frustratingly difficult. Television: ‘Birders: The Central Park Effect’ on HBO 2012-07-13T17:00:06Z

But everyone is a frustrating combination of attractive, lousy-as-a-human and stupid. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘30 for 30’ 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

“But it was a little bit frustrating for me because people were like, ‘Finally, a nonromantic relationship with these two girls,’ and I thought, ‘We did that! That has absolutely been done before.’ ‘Lilo & Stitch’ at 20: How It Broke the Mold Long Before ‘Moana’ 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Do you get why people are curious about your personal life, or is it just frustrating? Mary-Louise Parker on the guys — good and bad — in her life 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The office politics feel frustratingly real - does the writers' room tap into their own past work experiences to make the interaction between Carrie and her superiors feel so true to life? ArtsBeat: Your 'Homeland' Questions Answered 2012-12-14T16:46:42Z

Getting this crowd on its feet took no persuasion at all, which was fortunate for Mr. Chavez, since just sitting and watching his show was a frustrating experience. Dance Review: Roclan Gonz?lez Chavez in ?Kings of Salsa? - Review 2011-10-18T20:50:41Z

"Catch and Kill" is deeply honest about this conflict, about the frustrating skepticism of media and the legal system, and, ultimately, about the critical importance of letting survivors speak and characterize their own truths. Inside the media debate between using “sexual assault” and “rape” 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

What's frustrating is when those tasked with holding the truth play along. What "Loki," "Lucifer" and "Cruella" tell us about our love affair with rewriting ugly stories 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

In the day and age where virtually any question can be answered with a quick Internet search, it’s frustrating to not have a definitive diagnosis. I’m a chronic masturbator: “Just one more and I’ll be on my way” 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

“The Prodigal Son Returns” had some of the elements that could make The Leftovers confounding and frustrating. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

But "Beats" is ultimately a frustrating, sad movie. 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest' celebrates hip-hoppers' music 2011-07-28T19:58:10Z

It’s the most frustrating phrase; you just want to scream and say: ‘Yes he’s alive and I’m alive but I’m not OK; physically, I’m OK, but mentally, I’m really not.’ ‘Yes he’s alive but I’m not OK’: the bloody truth about childbirth 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Creative writing had often been frustrating when she was a kid, Heider said, because she could see that the words on the page were not the well-written story she wanted to tell. Siblings’ love of music and science help them deal with family problems 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating at the beginning but you can't cheat it; stage time is the most important thing for anyone that wants to get good at stand-up! The comedians' guide to the Edinburgh festival fringe 2011-07-29T23:04:00Z

Most frustratingly, this remains a production without a point of view: Since the Machine is supposed to do all the work, the characters’ actions become a cartoonish afterthought. Review | The Met Opera’s high-tech ‘Ring’ was a flop. Can a soprano change that at its revival? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating, but it does help me step up my game. Weird Al ponders Lady Gaga parody 2010-06-23T04:51:00Z

It’s a stylistically wide-ranging list, with sharply written descriptions of each song, which manages to be equal parts fascinating and frustrating. Are these really the best songs of the ’80s?: Picking apart Pitchfork’s fascinating, frustrating list 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“If You Love Me,” an initially compelling but ultimately frustrating memoir, opens at the point when Katie’s habit has exploded beyond the scope of what her mother can successfully keep under wraps. A Mother’s Pain, a Daughter’s Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Time to face that frustratingly blank page again. The Carpetbagger: Writers Rethink Words for the Big Screen 2013-01-02T23:34:49Z

When you play the game of thrones, you will, like me, probably end up mired in a frustrating stalemate. TIME Plays the Game of Thrones, and Lives to Tell the Tale 2012-03-30T15:16:49Z

“I’d do early interviews, and the way they’d write about me – ‘kooky’, blah, blah, blah… It was a convenient cartoon version of me; kind of frustrating. Patricia Arquette: ‘I don’t want to play the ingenue for ever’ 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

It was fun, but it was sometimes really frustrating. Texas Monthly: Lovett and Keen, From ‘Front Porch’ to Texas Concert Partners 2013-05-25T22:28:45Z

The camera, lights and sound equipment were powered by a generator carried in the support trawler which, frustratingly, often floated into shot. Pat Jackson obituary 2011-07-12T18:12:54Z

A critical magazine review destroyed it: the game was frustratingly hard, almost antagonistic. How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating but necessary gatekeeping, as the game's battles are so intricate that unprepared players would otherwise be overwhelmed. Company of Heroes 2 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:39Z

But, there is a level of exceptionalism about that which does become very frustrating. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s very frustrating,” Ms. van Dijk said, “because there were several near misses.” Munch and Van Gogh, Together at Last 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

While frustrating, the long delay allowed the Sorvino clan to hone in on the story they really wanted to tell. Sorvino to debut film funded by Pa. taxpayers 2012-02-20T17:51:08Z

Although it was frustrating not to know what Ms. Gong was singing about in the moment, I was continually riveted by her performance. A Dazzling Chinese Singer’s Riveting Song Cycle 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

So you're left with archive clips, which will be frustratingly short for lovers of the music who will want to hear whole songs. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z

Playing some of drama’s most enthralling — at times, frustrating — characters on television, these six actors help make TV look good. Tough scenes, rocky starts: Six TV drama actors dish 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

No nickname could be more frustrating or misleading than his: "Papa" Haydn prompts expectations of staidness and stolid, good behaviour. The Firework-Maker's Daughter; Hallé Orchestra/Elder; Cheryomushki – review 2013-03-31T00:07:03Z

The accumulation of many such beginnings is frustrating from some angles, and from others, it amounts to an elusive poetry. Review: A South Korean Troupe’s Physical Risks and Daunting Tasks 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

But the screenplay, written by the British playwright David Hare, has “a frustrating emptiness at its center,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Tuesday: Eero Saarinen and the Kennedy Center Honors 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Equally, though, sometimes you have to get the characters together because it’s too frustrating not to. Death by boldness: has Scandal got itself in a crisis even Olivia Pope couldn't fix? 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

That was frustrating, because I was thinking to myself, 'I must not be that bad if I'm getting that close, but I'm not getting it.' Teen actress shows true grit in Coens' new Western 2010-12-24T00:42:06Z

But many programs still adhered frustratingly to the festival’s brand: Mostly Mozart. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

“It was so frustrating to watch what she went through,” Ms. Haala said. She Was Given a Deadline, but Married on Her Own Terms 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most frustrating reality is when users don’t have any known connections at all. Are Genetic Testing Sites the New Social Networks? 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

There is a curious, sometimes frustrating reticence in Mr. Fleischner’s invariably elegant work, which often involves walls, as in large, shadowy, black-and-white photographs of flat surfaces that verge on pure abstraction. Art Review: Uptown, a Jumble of Treasures 2011-04-22T03:31:19Z

That’s really frustrating, and it’s not a responsible way to handle an account closure. Airbnb closed my account. Am I locked out forever? | Travel Troubleshooter 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

That's why it's so frustrating that the series showcased the same players over and over even though production had ample time to highlight some of the other athletes. How "Physical: 100" should level up in light of its anticlimactic finale 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

One thing "The Walking Dead" doesn't need is a frustrating non-villain. 'The Walking Dead' recap: Survivors taste good 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Dylan accepted the prize after frustrating the academy with weeks of silence following the announcement of the award on Oct. Bob Dylan to perform in Sweden in April after Nobel no-show 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Super frustrating,” said Mr. Geneau, who settled in Costa Rica after beginning his career in Vancouver. Heads Up: Costa Rica Goes Locavore 2012-09-07T15:33:45Z

Fields chose her for a scene in which she played hopscotch in front of his store, frustrating his exit. Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Woods decided to abandon his frustrating attempt to write a novel and to try translating the Schmidt book instead. John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

A schoolteacher told the group how frustrating it was that Catholic parishes don’t seem to know what to do with women who aren’t sweet. Lucetta Scaraffia Is Trying to Fight Catholic Patriarchy from the Inside 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

One harrowing section around the 2001 release of the album and film “Glitter” jumps from family-member manipulation to detox facility to corporate malfeasance and beyond, but still feels frustratingly ambiguous. Mariah Carey, Elusive No More 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Emm played guitar, a tertiary instrument in this band, if that, and, frustratingly, sang in a muffled manner, taking lyrics that on the album were merely curious and rendering them almost completely gnomic. Music Review: Tanlines at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-04-15T21:23:51Z

Controls and camera angles are fine in one mission and horribly frustrating the next. Video-game reviews: 'Toy Story 3' entertains but 'Transformers' falls flat 2010-07-02T05:29:00Z

After a manic late-night call to his parents, Kevin and his family entered the often frustrating new world of assessment and treatment.  WATCH: Tragedy hits family “like a thunderbolt” 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

But the exhibition, organized by Nick Irvin, resists indulging in sordidness or levying a value judgment, a pose that can feel admirably openhearted or frustratingly oblique. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

She recently used Hopper to book a flight on American Airlines, with frustrating results. New artificial intelligence promises to make travel a little smarter. Does it? 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

It is frustrating, and partly intended to be. Notes on PEN's annotated first edition auction 2013-05-20T10:58:00Z

"It's a democracy in the truest and most frustrating and most rewarding sense of the word," said Downey Jr. whose Holmes once again wears many disguises including one drag outfit. Sherlock Holmes back for more in "Game of Shadows" 2011-12-13T13:04:40Z

In retrospect, hers is a frustrating failure to reach for a better outcome — and not unique. Motherlode Blog: The Dilemma of the Pregnant Addict 2012-05-01T19:34:39Z

I quickly found myself on a frustrating journey into a plethora of definitions and counterdefinitions. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

On the merger front, it’s becoming frustrating to see Don’s character care so much about the company in one episode, and be so flip in the next. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: What About Bob? 2013-06-03T12:47:01Z

He was aware he couldn't remember things and it was very frustrating for him. Glen Campbell: One last love song 2011-08-26T22:01:04Z

I mean, it depends on what situation you're coming from if things are bad enough, Trump as frustrating as he is, you're still thinking it's America. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

For you, was the ending of the season frustrating, watching these guests get away with everything, and leave the resort with nothing having changed for them? “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating, all the questions. I showed the images to our photography curator and there was no eureka moment.” Antiques-Show Dress Is The Fashion Statement of The Season 2014-03-06T00:49:33Z

How frustrating is it to try and enter an address in the GPS and be unable to find it? Onstar Mirror: When Only a Human Will Do 2012-05-03T19:37:44Z

Many who had been in gay relationships found that being seen as "normal" was frustrating, that fitting into the mainstream made them feel uncomfortable. Rewind radio: Front Row; A Straight Question; So Wrong It's Right; The John Dredge Nothing to Do With Anything Show – review 2012-06-09T23:05:59Z

Despite the book’s subtitle, readers learn frustratingly little about Margret; the historical record is too lean. Bones of contention 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“To say this wasn’t frustrating wouldn’t be honest,” Don Cousins recalls. Is Kirk Cousins capable of greatness? 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

When I try to put the fictional world into real words, the result is often frustrating. Laila Lalami explains how to procrastinate (hint: you're off to a good start) 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

These earliest days of spring are always the most frustrating, at least when it comes to dinner. This Cauliflower Shawarma Reaches for Spring 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

That’s the house that Tyler built for himself, and spending time with him can be an exhausting, frustrating, singular, and impressive experience. Tyler, the Creator is His Own Worst Enemy on Wolf 2013-04-03T11:00:02Z

Colorism is a frequent and frustrating dimension of many movies that are simultaneously celebrated as representational victories, invoking complicated emotions for many audience members. The broken dream of "In the Heights": Fans praising the film must also acknowledge its shortcomings 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

What followed were frustrating years of second-guessing as Guyton tried to swerve with the trends of the industry, suddenly all about heavily produced songs that mixed in pop, rock and hip-hop. Mickey Guyton has been ready for this moment. Country music kept her waiting. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

But the ignorance is still frustrating because it makes you wonder if it’s partly why we haven’t solved the horror of the formula shortage already. Perspective | A lot of powerful people seem to have no clue what motherhood means 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

Musically, the first act is a bit frustrating, as Don Quixote never gets to properly serenade his lady love. Review: 'Don Quixote' makes for a gratifying night at Seattle Opera 2011-03-01T00:35:42Z

And what’s frustrating about the editorial is that it takes a healthy, democratic idea – that criticism, dissent, discussion, and the like are crucial to a free society – and turns it into a weird anti-religion rant. Charlie Hebdo punches down: Editorial blames Brussels terror attacks on peaceful Muslims 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

That ambiguity is present in these essays, often frustratingly so. In a World That Exploits Women, Emily Ratajkowski Exploits Herself. Is That Progress? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

"It was frustrating, but when I was 16 and got my first adult passport, I realised I could travel alone." What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

During the restaurant’s arduous and frustrating 15-month rebuilding, he continued to pay several dozen of his core staff members, including Mr. Salvador, the piano player. View From the River Café: 40 Years of Feasts and Firsts 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Compare this to The Motorcycle Diaries, wherein the key characters are interested in others rather than themselves and it's clear why spending time in this company should become frustrating and ultimately a little boring. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-02-24T00:05:28Z

"Working with animals is cute for about 15 minutes, and then it becomes frustrating beyond belief," he told the Rocky Mountain News in 2006. Pioneering digital film-maker Gary Winick dies aged 49 2011-03-01T16:00:45Z

The lack of confirmation was both understandable and “extraordinarily frustrating,” Tiberghien said. For a New Troupe, Going Digital Has Been Easier Than Returning Live 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

I wonder how long it’s going to take to find out what that “darkness” is, and whether the teases are going to grow frustrating. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dig In 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

“So while it’s frustrating and it’s hard, it’s like, ‘Okay there’s a light.’ Did they make a difference? One year later, Women’s March attendees look back. 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

It's very frustrating if documents aren't saved, backed up and in the right place. Jed Mercurio: My desktop 2013-05-29T08:00:01Z

“It wasn’t easy, that’s for sure, and sometimes very frustrating,” Ms. Diamond said. Invested in Each Other, and the Acela 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

Which must have made it all the more frustrating several years earlier when, in just this sense, he had to write a biography of himself. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace – review 2012-08-30T07:00:41Z

As women tried to reestablish themselves in the industry, they were stymied by a frustrating cycle. ‘Stuntwomen’ gives voice to the high-flying, fast-driving women on screen 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Scott of the New York Times wrote that “the real virtue of this short, sometimes frustrating book lies in its insistence that thinking for oneself is a difficult and lifelong undertaking.” “Why grow up?” is a political question: Our cult of youth is no accident — and it has dire consequences 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

The Post's policy was especially frustrating as it seemed to ignore the reality that far too many male journalists and men in media have been outed as sexual predators or abusers. Who should cover stories about sexual violence? 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

The stories of May’s methods of filming are legion; her impractical use of time and money was justifiably frustrating to studio executives, whose careers rise and fall with profits. Movie of the Week: “Ishtar” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

It is a beautifully shot, and very nicely acted beginning to something: but finally frustrating. Cannes 2012: Like Someone in Love ? review 2012-05-21T11:08:22Z

It developed into one of the most unique, intriguing – and occasionally shout-out-loud frustrating – TV shows of all time. After Lost 2010-05-25T13:03:00Z

One thing that makes our public discussions about race and identity frustrating is how quickly everyone is reduced to a single term. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

"It can be very frustrating and it is like trying to piece together a jigsaw," Law told the Telegraph. Has Jane Austen's real Mr. Darcy been found? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

One final point to consider is the frustrating fact that not all TVs are equal where input lag is concerned. How To Boost Your PlayStation, Xbox And Wii Gaming Skills In Just 60 Seconds 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

This first season of "The Chair" is frustrating to watch because of its undeniable potential, squandered on its overkill efforts to make yet another disgruntled white man likable, or at least tolerable and sympathetic. How “The Chair” needs to do better by Sandra Oh 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“My Name Is Hmmm ...” has its magical moments, but they are sabotaged by the director’s showy, ham-handed technique applied to a frustratingly threadbare screenplay that leaves you wanting more. ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

These notions of dignity and evolution motivate "The Second Amendment," which offers a smart if occasionally frustrating historical overview of America's 200-plus year relationship with guns. 'The Second Amendment' is a smart history of guns and the U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

As virtual reality becomes a new aspect of the medium this year, it is delivering on its promise for new kinds of experiences and interactions in ways that are tantalizing yet frustrating. Virtual Reality: From Guitar Gods to Birds of Prey 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

My friends shouted encouragement as my gummy legs shifted from nostalgic to frustrating. Getting dumped: the humiliating nostalgia of a beachside wipeout 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Stitching together cheery oral testimonies and frustratingly fuzzy archive material, Ms. Osmond counters the sparseness of visual record with brisk re-enactments and a Welsh chorus of quipping cronies. Review: In ‘Dark Horse,’ a Real-Life Steeplechase Champion Inspires a Town 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

But that closeness often leads him to omit or skim over vital details — particulars of the crime are frustratingly scarce, as are specifics on the sentencing laws that are denounced here. Review: In ‘The Sentence,’ a Woman Gets Prison, Her Family Also Pays 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating how little does interest Ms. Fidell, including how the lovers hooked up and whether Diana suggested that Eric stay after class or whether it was his idea. Movie Review: ‘A Teacher’ Stars Lindsay Burdge and Will Brittain 2013-09-06T00:03:08Z

It is very frustrating when you spend a few hours on the phone just to be cut off. Caught in an 8-month, $2,086 no-refund loop with Expedia 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z

It’s because the lot of many women at that time was leading such idle, frustrating lives.” ?Downton Abbey? Inspires Themed Viewing Parties 2012-01-18T22:56:54Z

If that was a case of too many effects being unnerving, too little can also be frustrating, and 4DX still has a way to go. Watch Movies in 4DX and You’ll Get an Education in Filmmaking 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

It leaked more than a month before its scheduled release date, a frustrating turn of events but one the band ultimately found encouraging. How the Fleet Foxes Frontman Got Out to Get Back In 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Happy/ambiguous/frustrating finale aside, it’s an undeniably brave and startling piece of work although it wasn’t always seen as such. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: The Lost Weekend 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

"Everything was perfect on paper, so today was incredibly frustrating." The Lone Ranger gives Disney a bumpy ride 2013-07-08T09:35:19Z

I’m not going to do a character where I can’t play the whole arc of her — it would be unbelievably frustrating. Nicole Kidman Still Can’t Believe What ‘Destroyer’ Did to Her 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Because almost half the film is this dim, it makes for a frustrating viewing experience. | 'Spring Fever': From Lou Ye, a Taboo Film on Gay Romance 2010-08-05T23:38:00Z

But it is also like walking through a stage set in which fragments of a play are being rehearsed; it is frustratingly unclear how everything fits together. Theme Park Review: Where Park Visitors Answer a Call to Battle 2011-06-21T17:14:18Z

It was the most abstract and highly changeable concert I’ve seen this group perform, and also the slackest: inspired on one level, frustrating on another. Music Review: Abstract and Fluid Jazz 2011-02-10T23:29:00Z

It was frustrating to hear just the last dozen minutes of “The Firebird” because the playing was so colorful, vehement and, during the finale, brassy and glorious. At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

In this cycle, for once, the impeccably crafted Second overshadowed the “Eroica” that followed, here a frustratingly grandiloquent piece, lacking the cohesion to carry its mighty ambitions through the finale. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

To follow its wrenched syntax is to experience the frustrating dogleg lanes of consciousness, the distortions and failures of memory and self-narration. This Old Woman Has Some Important Things to Say, if Only You’d Listen 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Branca said the delay of well over a year, as happened for all of Broadway, was “frustrating” but he has renewed excitement about “MJ: The Musical” and shared new details. After court victories, Michael Jackson estate eyes revival 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Where we didn’t connect was in the South and Midwest, which is frustrating because the movie was made for that audience,” he said. ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ is No. 1, as ‘Logan Lucky’ Disappoints 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

As a songwriter, was the success of that album a little frustrating? Q & A: Rosanne Cash Talks About Her New Album, The River and the Thread 2014-01-15T17:25:41Z

Sometimes, the most frustrating thing about America is trying to explain it to Americans. Explaining America to Americans: Why don’t you get the allure of your country for refugees — that no matter how horrible life is now, perhaps it’ll be better there? 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

They tend to find it frustrating if I write them dialogue, which happened more for the first one. “The Trip to Spain” director Michael Winterbottom on where Coogan and Brydon may go next 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

But it does need to at least confront some of The Force Awakens’ more frustrating posers: why is Rey so powerful that she can apparently teach herself Jedi mind tricks on the fly? From Rey's dark side to Snoke's identity – the questions Star Wars: The Last Jedi must answer 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

His style can be frustrating if you want the pay-off of a pop song or dance music. Fall heat #2: 'Water Mirror' by Seattle's Secret Colors 2011-10-26T18:27:06Z

Two years is a frustrating amount of time, but it’s not a whole life, and a partner is a more important decision that a T-shirt. I'm Jewish and want to marry a Jewish man but Jewish dating sites are not working. Help! 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mary and Martha, not to mention the cipherish Lazarus, are simultaneously opaque and obvious: We learn just enough about them for it to be frustrating that we don’t learn much more. Music Review: ‘The Gospel According to the Other Mary,’ by John Adams 2012-06-01T21:51:19Z

“UnREAL” is a close and sometimes frustrating study of women tearing other women down, for reasons that defy articulation. Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Traces the Cracks in Reality TV’s Fourth Wall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, for a long time, particularly when I was 16 and people online were saying ‘you can’t dress like that, you’re 12’ … it was frustrating.” Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams: 'It's not all fun and games' 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of accessibility is how random it all seems, how much it depends on chance. What's so hard about making movies accessible? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

It's frustrating because I have negative feelings about sex and I very rarely have it. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

Sometimes they, too, scream and sometimes, when those screams set me off, I yell back, which is frustrating for me and unnerving for them, as well as my wife. The stories war tells me 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

"It's frustrating that it got delayed for the reasons it did, and I'm quite pleased that finally it's reaching the screens," Sugar said. All fired up 2010-09-28T17:45:00Z

The encounter is almost inherently frustrating, as though one could not possibly pay enough attention. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

While major-league games are getting longer and slower, frustrating even devoted fans — Don Mattingly, the manager of the Miami Marlins, recently said the sport “sometimes is unwatchable” — the Bananas are focused squarely on fun. ‘Baseball Players Don’t Dance’? The Savannah Bananas Beg to Differ. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

But it's frustrating that a character as devoted and loving as Preacher is so alone. Hot for Preacher: Why "Virgin River" must protect its selfless rescuer at all costs 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

Reliable, consistent and downright delicious — not sad, angst-ridden and frustrating — this recipe takes about two hours over two days, uses common kitchen equipment and results in a reasonable number of ruby-red jars of superb jam.  Canning Class: Strawberry jam that works

What I found frustrating — I’m just keeping it real — it was quite a few restrictions when you’re making a movie that I was not ready for. Salt-N-Pepa, Hip-Hop Duo That Spoke Up for Women, Tell Their Own Story 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

These lectures get the job done, but, along with frequent detours into back story, sometimes feel like a frustrating countercurrent to the momentum of the book’s present, ongoing plot. The Daughter of a Revolutionary Becomes a Wedding Planner. Drama Ensues. 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Here, in a far smaller venue, there is a closer perspective to assess the text, which is both accomplished -- Mamet’s use of opaque motivation, withheld details and rhythmic specificity remains razor-sharp -- and frustrating. 'Anarchist's' artful words don't make satisfying drama 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

The show is all the more frustrating for the amount of potential and talent involved. Review: ‘Camping’ Is a Long, Uncomfortable Trip 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

There's a lot of retina-frazzling style but a frustrating lack of substance. Trance – review 2013-03-28T15:30:02Z

The show has generated an enormous response, and it's both validating to see everyone's outrage and frustrating to hear people say things like, "I knew all along that something was off." Shiny happy homeschooling: The abusive Duggar-like household is preventable, if we all take action 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

And this has proven very frustrating for some. Beth Stelling doesn’t need your Internet justice 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

The most obvious, and perhaps most frustrating, thing to reporters about Mueller is his confounded discipline. The end of the Mueller investigation is near! No, really. Anytime now. 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

As a man who enjoys clothes, I often find the postmodern nature of menswear frustrating. It’s Raining Menswear 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

It seems that the characters on Girls grow only incrementally, and when you’re so able to speak in your own voices, it must be limiting or frustrating. Lena Dunham Thinks Even Conservatives Need to Read Her Newsletter 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

That list of characters at the top is long and to some reads as frustratingly incomplete, but this curtain call is not. "Orange Is the New Black" ends justly, asking: Where do we go from here? 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating when people of color can only play a character that’s written as a minority,” she added. Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Yeah, so the whole frustrating part is when you get there, and the medicine not there, you have to pay for your prescription. Medicine or food? People with diabetes in Liberia sometimes have to choose between the two 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr Jerven’s call for economists to “abandon” complex statistical analysis of Africa, instead to focus on “deep contextual studies of history and institutions”, sounds appealing but is frustratingly vague. No fear to tread 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Like the previous two plays, it features characters in a frustrating paralysis. | Theater in the Dark, With Lights: Lots of Modern Angst, and Free Beer 2011-02-11T22:30:51Z

However, many cross the line from challenging to outright frustrating in a way its spiritual predecessor never did. Quantum Conundrum – review 2012-06-30T23:05:31Z

A frustrating situation, but one that allowed him to make some of he best adventure games ever created. PAX Australia: Ron Gilbert's advice for games makers 2013-07-20T00:54:46Z

But he said he did not want to do that, preferring to adhere to legal channels, frustrating though that may be. ‘The Colonel,’ by the Iranian Writer Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 2012-07-01T18:15:33Z

However, I would argue that, as much as ahistorical theatre can be frustrating, so too can plays that stick too close to the record and all but ignore theatricality. In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect 2010-12-22T12:45:04Z

Add to that the coronavirus delta variant and its disastrous spread across the globe and Americans are in for a frustrating time. Why travel nightmares may scrub your August vacation plans 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

I love his work, which must have been frustrating to do at times. Win tickets to see the Rolling Stones at the O2 Arena in London this Sunday 2012-11-22T00:05:00Z

“It’s a frustrating time,” he told a small group of journalists. ‘Suburbicon’ is the latest film that uses horror to process the realities of 2017 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Figures haunt his poems, inspiring but also frustrating him: Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

Just like he finds architecture’s fixed nature frustrating, he intends this new piece to escape the static condition of most artworks. Street party will welcome SAM installation 2013-03-22T22:39:05Z

The onscreen trope and societal archetype of the "nice guy" is so frustrating because of the common plot points and social expectations that go hand-in-hand with this particular character. “Sex/Life” and the exhausting, male entitlement of the “nice guy” trope 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

Are the xx the first pop act you can imagine being on ECM – the flat, cryptic titles, all those gleaming bare bones, the limpid, ultra-sparse propulsion, the sedate intensity, either spellbindingly beautiful or frustratingly repetitive? Paul Morley on music: In search of shifting sounds 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

Hamm: Mostly every single moment of my character is frustrating because it’s just a continual series of making poor decisions but that can be interesting as well. Tough scenes, rocky starts: Six TV drama actors dish 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

January 6, 2010 9:21 am Link This is one of the most frustrating parts of travel. 2010-01-06T14:15:00Z

“It’s just been kind of disappointing and frustrating, because we’re not getting to do our job,” she said. This Summer’s Dance MVP: The Weatherman 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Michallon makes it easy to believe that these three characters could be so detached from their realities as to make frustratingly misguided choices. In Clémence Michallon’s Debut, a Serial Killer Deceives an Entire Town 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

In more than 15 it’s a frustrating trend, one that paints a picture about who’s worthy of taking center stage and who is better off as an understudy, supporting them from the wings. White hero, sidekick of color: why Marvel needs to break the cycle 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Come for the women in high-cut leotards, stay for the well-developed exploration of their interior lives and experiences, including their reproductive choices and frustrating employment options. 7 Shows for President Trump to Watch on His Vacation 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

Most frustrating of all is that Smyth does not shed any new light on the N.R.A.’s financial relationship with Russia, instead relying on previously published investigations. How the N.R.A. Became ‘the Most Feared Lobbying Force in America’ 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Despite all the high-level work, a truly good match between dance-maker and artist is still frustratingly elusive to execute. Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev make magic in "Solo For Two" 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

“We appreciate that issues resulting from delays are frustrating and try to address them as quickly as possible,” Freed told me. Perspective | Why do airlines block their customers on social media? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

It’s also frustrating because while it re-examines the assault on the jogger and painstakingly walks you through what happened to the teenagers — from their arrest through their absolution — it fails to add anything substantively new. Movie Review: The Documentary ‘The Central Park Five’ 2012-11-21T23:45:09Z

Time spent with clients can be frustrating and unsatisfactory. What the therapist heard: ‘What would you do if your client behaved like a dog?’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

"It's somewhat frustrating," says McEnroe, who won seven Grand Slam titles, including four U.S. Can John McEnroe's Tennis Academy Lift U.S. Talent? 2010-08-30T09:00:00Z

I know, it's so frustrating, especially after all the work I've been trying to do for the last couple of years because I think really companies can hide behind this zero-tolerance policy. Gretchen Carlson on #MeToo, from Fox News to McDonald's: "We need men in this fight" 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The “West Side Story” romance angle is the least interesting part of the movie, so it’s frustrating that so much time is spent on it. Review: In ‘Birth of the Dragon,’ Young Bruce Lee Meets a Master 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Borgman and co are devils - subterranean, inhuman, imps in cheap clothing - yet the ease with which they infect others is still frustratingly blurry. Cannes 2013: Borgman - first look review 2013-05-19T18:16:00Z

“I hope it’s frustrating, in the best way possible,” Mr. Sharon said. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

And that need for the show to resonate with our present priorities ties into the frustrating vagueness, so far, of the storytelling. Review: ‘The Nevers,’ From HBO and (Formerly) Joss Whedon 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

I've often felt I do way more to help the three of them than they do to help me — which is understandable with kids, frustrating with a husband — but lately it's gotten much worse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If you feel like a doormat, here are some welcome changes 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. Olly Murs: 'The fastest I've ever driven naked is zero miles per hour' 2012-12-19T12:25:00Z

It is one of the frustrating aspects of following culture that the artists we wish were charismatic aren’t always the ones who are. A Gift From the Musical Gods 2011-08-17T14:36:45Z

There’s something frustratingly hermetic in the way this is all handled.   At La Jolla Playhouse, 'Last Tiger in Haiti' still finding its footing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating to hear about plans that we weren’t consulted about,” Anthony Pesce, a Times data journalist, told The Washington Post. ‘Anything could happen’: Amid newsroom clashes, Los Angeles Times becomes its own story 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

The central koan of Franz’s book — a struggle toward spiritual enlightenment catalyzed by romantic desire — feels especially frustrating without a better understanding of this powerful attachment. An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

“This is a frustrating thing for live performance to be open, because there is not a national strategy on testing,” said Mary McColl, executive director of Actors’ Equity. New York City can’t rebound without Broadway. And Broadway’s road back is uncertain. 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

Your friend is likely coming face-to-face with the frustrating uncertainty of event planning during a pandemic. My Ex and I Are Friends. Why Won’t His Wife Accept That? 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Clarkson said she had found the experience as invigorating as it was frustrating. As a Daytime Host, Kelly Clarkson Has No Fear of Being Vocal 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Though admirably ambitious, it is also frustratingly aloof in places. Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

As the stakes rise, however, the play, presented by the Untitled Theater Company No. 61, becomes frustratingly polemical. | 'Pangs of the Messiah': ?Pangs of the Messiah? at 14th Street Y - Review 2011-11-09T22:38:44Z

I also find it frustrating that the algorithm will accept only one way of saying a phrase. How to learn a language this year: ‘Will a virtual teacher work for me?' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

That can be frustrating at times, but it’s all a sort of misdirection that makes the final episode all the more jolting. Review: In Showtime’s ‘Guerrilla,’ Radicalism Without the Mythology 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The show’s previous two seasons established it as a series unafraid to show parenting as an often messy, sometimes frustrating enterprise. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Breeders’ and ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

Second, every human will try to change the frustrating event. When a fifth-grader’s school frustrations boils over, here’s how to help 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

I’m 30 years old, I have a wonderful career, numerous close girlfriends, a sometimes frustrating but close and always supportive family, generally great co-workers and acquaintances. Guys keep dumping me 2012-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I couldn't find records in my own town, and it was frustrating," he explains. Independent record shops: 10 of the best in Britain 2013-03-24T00:06:02Z

I think it's probably frustrating to the public when they see how good it is, and they go, `Why won't you do anymore?' Jimmy Page says 'no' to Led Zeppelin reunion 2012-10-10T13:42:08Z

It is so frustrating to keep watching these professional news media types and experts say things like, "Oh wow, I didn't know that it was like this." "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

It is terribly sad that things turned out so frustratingly awry, and it is a testimony to the Boston Symphony’s faith in Mr. Levine that the administration held fast for so long. Critic?s Notebook: A Maestro?s Unfinished Legacy 2011-03-03T23:23:55Z

If those equivocations are frustrating to read in a book review, the experience of reading “4 3 2 1” is often worse. For a doorstopper, Paul Auster's '4 3 2 1' is surprisingly light 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The frustratingly short first season of Hulu’s “Difficult People” ends next Wednesday. What to Do This Weekend 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Or Time Warner Cable might allow the status quo to continue, further frustrating fans. For Dodgers fans, the TV shutout continues 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

So I stayed to pack seven more shows into four more days, starting with McKellen’s hale and haunted Hamlet, a riveting interpretation in a frustratingly disjointed production. Hope (and Ian McKellen) Lured Me to Britain. Was It Worth the Risk? 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

This time felt different, because the pain was ongoing and frustratingly opaque. How I learned to cope with chronic pain 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The book, frustratingly, reveals little about the man – anecdotes are garnered from industry professionals rather than personal friends. Terence Donovan Fashion edited by Diana Donovan and David Hillman – review 2012-12-16T00:05:04Z

I can’t tell you how frustrating those conversations will be for us all.” For Amy Schumer, Multimillion-Dollar Book Deal Is All in the Timing 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Don’t Leave Home” is a frustratingly befuddled movie that’s nevertheless fascinating. Review: In ‘Don’t Leave Home,’ Irish Folklore Meets Catholic Guilt 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

It is doubly frustrating as, up to this point, Daniel Rigby's Dantès provides a personable focus for a plot whose intricacies are almost impossible to follow. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z

He did notice that within an hour of its release, a fan had posted the entire album on YouTube, which can be frustrating to a musician trying to keep the rent paid. Heartbreak leads Alain Johannes to 'Fragments and Wholes' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Yet Bernstein’s Stravinsky discography is actually frustratingly small; the Sony set contains only six discs. When Bernstein Conducted Stravinsky, Modern Music Came Alive 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

“Certainly the final segment, which includes the plight of refugees, is both heart-rending and frustrating,” he added. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and Beethoven 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

This is undoubtedly frustrating, but it doesn’t mean that you’re going to be alone forever. I’m a high-functioning man with autism coping with health issues – do I bother dating? 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

You were stuck in a frustrating cycle — where no matter what you did, the company wouldn’t listen. Travel Troubleshooter | Who should pay for this Booking.com error? 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

It's frustrating that ableist words continue to escape attention at present more than other kinds of harmful words, including sexist and homophobic language. From Lizzo to Beyoncé, why does harmful language for disability persist? 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The line between recovery and pregnancy was frustratingly blurred. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

It is frustrating that more, faster, cheaper remains the internet's prevailing logic. Artfinder: can online art museums match the real thing? 2011-03-04T15:22:09Z

It was thinking about the parts of working on “The Daily Show” that I found frustrating. Jon Stewart Has a New Talk Show, but He Plans to do More Listening 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Good communication between them doesn’t appear to be prioritised – something I find incredibly frustrating. A letter to… my stepson, whom I love despite all the challenges 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

As I’ll detail below, we are both frustratingly close and far away; many traveling down the road of moral progress have arrived at the destination of veganism intellectually, but not in practice. New atheists must become new vegans: Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the extra burden on moral leaders 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

He’s ferocious, frustrating and funny, miraculously compact while deploying looooong sentences. Robert Christgau: How One Man Survived Writing 13,000 Album Reviews 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

“It was actually for the strong-willed: ‘Come sit through this, experience some of the duration, how it’s boring and frustrating, and you repeat the same thing 20 times in a row, and nothing changes.’ ” Critic?s Notebook: How Does a Choreographer Create Art? Day by Ho-Hum Day 2011-06-07T22:15:25Z

And it’s frustrating because he does know a lot. Cultural Studies: Hand-Holding Across the Aisle 2010-09-24T19:30:00Z

What he called "the fake controversy" of the costume request was frustrating for another reason. A new stage for Arcade Fire 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

But given her overall, passion-free, too- deliberate storytelling, telling us nothing about something so dramatically rendered, at least in character terms, is frustrating. 'Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen': a remote nun's story 2010-11-19T01:01:00Z

But the movie’s most frustrating choices concern Ball’s registration with the Communist Party, a scandal that takes center stage in the biopic “Being the Ricardos.” ‘Lucy and Desi’ Review: Love in the Time of Television 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

As frustrating as it is on one level, it’s an ending that also makes sense. 'Mad Men' finale recap: There's no place like om 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The trade-off for this sometimes frustrating approach is that there’s a purer sense of context. Review | ‘Heavenly Bodies’ at the Met shows just how much fashion and Catholicism have in common 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a collection of bottles meant to satisfy the title’s conceit and results in a frustrating reading experience. If Tea Isn’t Your Cuppa, How About Beer, Wine or Coffee? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Events continue to unfold or, more precisely, collapse, and the denouement does not account at all for why it arrived by such a tortuous and frustrating route. Elizabeth Kostova takes us on another European adventure in ‘The Shadow Land’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

It’s slow to get going and it’s frustrating to watch. Stranger Things 3: a flawless finale – but what a slog to get there 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

Although it appeared on the New York Times bestseller list, the paper was not hugely impressed by the book, calling it "frustrating". Condoleezza Rice's 'candid' memoir to shed light on Bush administration 2011-08-26T13:46:54Z

Yet it can be frustratingly hard for them to figure out the true dimensions and potential of their voices. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

I believe eating digesta may have been a more common practice in the past, but direct evidence is frustratingly hard to come by. The original "Paleo diet" and archaeologists’ mistaken assumptions about gender roles of ancestors 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Moving house is frustrating, stressful and, let's be honest, really really boring. Magic Arm – Warning Sign: New music 2013-07-05T06:00:00Z

The results veer wildly between entertaining and frustrating, but fans of popcorn thrillers will nonetheless enjoy. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – review 2012-11-18T00:06:07Z

But it's certainly frustrating to be just repeatedly told that the stakes have been raised, rather than really understand why. The Americans recap: Season one, episode two 2013-06-03T23:47:51Z

“Bump” is not, and while its comedy mostly delivers, its story lines don’t cohere, which is frustrating. Review: In Centuries-Spanning ‘Bump,’ It’s Always Labor Day 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Anyhow, the most frustrating aspect of this film is that its only amusing sequence comes in the very last minute, after the closing credits, with a mock commercial for Dwayne's tanning salon. 30:Minutes or Less: Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari in a Go-Nowhere Fargo 2011-08-11T21:05:00Z

Perhaps frustratingly, in the end, there is no single reason why Hernandez snapped. Netflix's buzzy "Killer Inside" tries to make sense of Aaron Hernandez's murderous mindset 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

The frustrating truth is, readers stampede toward good novels that are very long, except when they don’t, and anyone who can tell you why could make more money selling diet aids and New York bridges. ‘City on Fire’ review: A vibrant, kaleidoscopic vision of ’70s New York 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The level of unapologetic conjecture I’ve encountered lately isn’t just frustrating, it’s retrogressive, unprecedented and absolutely terrifying. Kanye crosses the line: The 13th Amendment is sacred, especially when all are still not free 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

At other times, it’s because you develop tunnel vision about whatever you’re trying to control, and your standards grow more exacting, so smaller failures of control are ever more frustrating. Think a tidy house will lead to a tidy life? Think again 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

There is the vexatious feeling that Mr. Clark didn’t follow through on his ideas, which makes the dance’s more poignant moments all the more frustrating. Dance Review: Michael Clark?s ?Who?s Zoo?? at Whitney Biennial 2012 2012-04-01T21:00:01Z

But in the end, like so many things in Afghanistan, his motives remain frustratingly unclear. Books of The Times: ‘The Tender Soldier’ Examines the U.S. Counterinsurgency Strategy 2013-08-27T20:58:37Z

"He's so deeply in his own imaginary world, and sometimes it's utterly frustrating to remove him from it," Ellis said. A dark lyricist turns to tales for children 2011-10-13T18:19:41Z

And as frustrating as the day is long — the two things, mixed. 7 Roles. 14 Actors. 2 Languages. 1 Stage. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Fitzgerald's years of teaching – it's evident from her letters – were often hard grind, exhausting and frustrating, in that staffroom full of "exhaustion, worry and reproach". From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z

It was never released here but it's both the most frustrating and the most intriguing of the mumblecore movies; at times painfully boring but at others bracingly intense and unbearably intimate. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

But there is a history and a philosophy to carnival that sustains it, and frustratingly for politicians who would like to get a better handle on it, makes the event hyper-sensitive and hyper-resistant to change. The importance of the Notting Hill carnival 2011-08-25T18:59:03Z

Her cool approach to incendiary topics is part of what makes her work so brilliant and so frustrating. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The quality is frustratingly tinny – but it's one of the funniest podcasts out there. The Podfathers (and mothers): top 10 comedy podcasts 2010-06-23T13:06:00Z

Other readers may find “Shark” impenetrable or frustrating for its absence of plot and lucid characters. Book review: ‘Shark,’ by Will Self: Postmodern novel in a psychiatric community

For people targeted by Internet “trolls,” the absence of a clear solution is often the most frustrating part. There’s no good way to deal with trolls, so you might as well tattle to their moms 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Were there any lessons from this frustrating period? The Director James Wan: If ‘Aquaman’ Doesn’t Work, Blame Me 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

The camera often stays on the students enmeshed in frustrating experiences longer than is comfortable. Movie Review: ‘Best Kept Secret’ and a School for Special-Needs Children 2013-09-06T02:22:20Z

As many of us remain isolated in our homes, this new black comedy can either be an exhilarating fantasy or a frustrating tease. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Killing Eve’ and ‘Run’ 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

That’s not to say all these connected home devices are frustrating or useless. The Pitfalls of the D.I.Y. Connected Home 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

I have definitely had that experience, and it's so frustrating when you're like, I know that I want to add something, but I can't figure out what. Ali Slagle takes the stress out of cooking because "it’s only dinner" 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

So it's frustrating for that movie but I think it's good overall for the health of cinema. A Minute With: Patton Oswalt on Spirit Awards and playing host 2014-02-26T21:29:28Z

Few pop singers have been gifted with a voice as glorious as Whitney Houston's, and even fewer have treated their talent with the frustrating indifference she did toward the end of her life. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

This was frustrating for Mr. Koshalek and his supporters who said they believed the future of the Hirshhorn — and other museums for that matter — depend on imaginative programming. Hirshhorn Museum Drops Plan for an Inflatable Garden Roof 2013-07-16T22:48:16Z

More frustratingly, you frequently couldn’t even see the feet. Critic?s Notebook: Nrityagram Dance and Other Indian Troupes in New York 2012-03-25T23:19:52Z

While it can be frustrating to see some filmmakers dash off copies of other movies, it’s deeply enjoyable to find one who so appreciates his inspirations. Review: In ‘Too Late,’ Imitation Is Sincere Flattery 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

In my life, it’s been frustrating when someone says, “You’re not black enough.” With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — Kittens in Tow 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

I don't think the show has a goal of getting people excited about being catcalled as we know how frustrating, annoying and dangerous that could be. "Survival of the Thickest" masters the dynamic of platonic relationships 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z

What was frustrating about life after Big Brother was that everyone wanted to define how successful you were based on how much you appeared on TV afterwards. 'I forgot who I was': how Big Brother changed my life 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

This is incredibly frustrating—particularly in a cultural moment in which writers are giving voice to nontraditional narratives, and people are noticing and making it part of the conversation. You’re still nothing until you’re a mom: Why does pop culture hate the child-free? 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

For viewers, this means that “Game of Thrones” — always an awe-inspiring spectacle but sometimes plodding and frustrating — can become its own thing. ‘Game of Thrones’ Has Moved Past Its Blueprint, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Avett Brothers The Carpenter Universal / Island Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album What a frustrating band the Avett Brothers are. The Avett Brothers: The Carpenter – review 2012-11-08T21:30:01Z

And he understands how frustrating it can be to hear critics demand dramatic changes to a show so complex that even tweaks require hours of rehearsal. Arts & Leisure: How Do You Make a Whole Show Fly? 2011-06-08T12:00:00Z

We'd only just got that ad placed at the airport for the month so it's quite frustrating for that reason. Edinburgh airport commits basic blunder by banning Picasso nude 2012-08-08T15:54:00Z

Often it was endearing, but it was also frustrating. The dog I could not let go: The love story I couldn’t tell anyone 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

These are generally little more than sound bites, which makes for frustrating viewing. Critic?s Notebook: Films Celebrate Bernie Mac and All Jokes Aside Comedy Club 2012-02-17T23:41:44Z

It’s very frustrating to live in a world where you’re not allowed to explore the deeper parts of yourself, not just one part but many other parts. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

May Hillary Clinton hear about your problems and think, “Wow, I’m glad nothing that frustrating has ever happened to me!” Style Invitational Week 1276: What 4 — a limerick contest 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

It was definitely a frustrating pilot season until Insecure came about. Insecure's Jay Ellis: 'Every time I've been pulled over, I thought I was going to get killed' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

North’s performance chafes in vain against the material’s ick factor, to curious and frustrating ends. ‘1 + 1’ Review: She Just Wants to Be His Plaything 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s so frustrating that travelers, and at least one travel insurance company, are doing something about it. Perspective | Read the fine print before you travel 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

“The phrase ‘It’s just stuff’ is so frustrating,” Bush said. For Paradise fire survivors, a stranger’s handwritten recipe scrapbook offers a chance to rebuild 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

You miss a lot if you're not in the room with the editor and feeling the sensibility of it, so it's a little frustrating. Ray Romano, Jon Hamm mull lighter side of drama 2010-05-26T05:37:00Z

As frustrating as it is, there just isn't time for everything. Motherlode Blog: 12 New Year's Resolutions for Happier Families 2012-12-31T14:51:36Z

Marx is proud that the musical had a closeted character that showed audiences how frustrating life can be. Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

It was extremely frustrating because I didn’t feel he saw me. What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood (*If you’re not a straight white man.) 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

"It can be frustrating for an ensemble player when you're on a show that is mainly about one character." 'The Good Wife' cast wraps Season 5 in a triumphant mood 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

I find it frustrating sometimes that everything needs to be pigeonholed. Edward Carey discusses his gothic adventure, 'Heap House' 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

"It was frustrating for me," her trainer Tracy Anderson said earlier this year, "but they wanted her to gain." Is gaining 15 pounds really "torture"? 2011-08-12T19:35:00Z

"It can be frustrating," says Chipperfield, "but when people show an emotional attachment to some part of a city you can't be upset." David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z

“I just found it so frustrating to be so close to the heat, and not be a part of it,” he said. He Used to Move Pianos. Now He Moves Audiences. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Documentaries that compress vast swaths of history into a few hours can be frustratingly shallow, of course, and also say less than those that bore into one subject, place or moment in time. Review: In ‘Hooligan Sparrow,’ a Chinese Activist’s Hair-Raising Defiance of the State 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating when nutrition studies seem to contradict earlier ones: “Are Eggs Good or Bad For You? New Research Rekindles Debate,” the Associated Press groused in mid-March. Perspective | Saturated fat, good or evil? How to decipher contradictory nutritional research. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The answers she reaches are frankly equivocal, which in our era of dueling absolutes is commendable if sometimes a little frustrating. Why Intellectuals Support Dictators 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

This leaves Owen stranded, which sure doesn’t help him but does serve the frustratingly programmatic script, which closes around him like a trap. ‘Little Accidents,’ an Independent Movie by Sara Colangelo 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Singh has been pushing against the mainstream for a while, including at film school, a place he found frustrating. From India, a Tale Shaped by a Director's Memories of an Assassination 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Or maybe the sound was intended to help draw the attention of the audience — a frustratingly restive one at Buttenwieser Hall on Monday — back to the music. Review: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Displays Both Delicate and Robust Tones 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Know how to talk wine Often frustrating for wine amateurs is the language that aficionados use to describe the taste, appearance, and general quality of a bottle. We Are Scientists present ? the rules of wine 2010-06-16T12:30:00Z

Despite his critique of Hollywood, Baldwin moved to Los Angeles in 1968 to write a screenplay about Malcolm X. The experience was frustrating. Finally, a Screenplay by James Baldwin 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

It is a pretty site, but a frustrating one. Hermès doesn’t make it easy for you to buy its stuff. That’s why it sells so well. 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Those inspirations established the parameters for Amos' alternately intriguing and frustrating performance, which spanned her career and more than two hours. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z

This isn’t just frustrating for couples; it’s also bittersweet for a wedding industry that has barely managed to stay afloat during the pandemic. Getting Hitched? Good Luck Finding Food, Photographers and Even Venues 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

“It’s so horrible and so frustrating because there aren’t remedies focused specifically on this issue,” he said. Why It Could Be Hard to Mute R. Kelly 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

But it’s also about the act of seeing and being seen — or as the case may be, frustratingly unseen. The Playlist: Jay Z Sips Lemonade and Adele Divides and Conquers 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

But Dubuffet frustrates distinctions among mediums; frustrating distinctions was his stock in trade. Review: Drawings? Maybe, but Certainly the Art of Frustration 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

But he's gotten so bad at dealing with downtime, it's frustrating. Perspective | Our 8-year-old son is bored and whiny. How can we help him change his attitude? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s trendy, gossipy, fast-paced conversational fun, and occasionally frustrating for the tangents left unexplored. 10 Binge-Worthy Art Podcasts in the Age of Coronavirus 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

Throughout the movie, Xialing's graceful and deadly fighting skills, and her irreverence for the sexist customs meant to disempower her, are simultaneously enthralling and frustrating. "Shang-Chi" crafted a fantastic, badass fighter – too bad the movie was all about her brother 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

Those who’ve learned to embrace the work of sorting and discarding — a skill that being a Bond fan demands — will be rewarded by this frustrating but fascinating book. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Welcome to Happiness” is an airy fantasy of a film, cute but also frustrating. Review: ‘Welcome to Happiness,’ With Kyle Gallner Seeking Answers 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

In the “Eroica,” especially, the effect was alternately enlivening and frustrating, depending on the importance of the figures thrust into the spotlight. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Offers Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z

Though this accomplished cast gave its all to the production, the English words were frustratingly indistinct. Review: The Met’s Holiday ‘Hansel’ Is Surreal (and Timely) 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

The inability to examine much of the 19th-century material in the round here is beyond frustrating. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

There is none of the frustrating wiring malfunctions that will lead you to drop-kick a plastic Santa and his reindeer, as Clark Griswold does in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” Let It Glow! With Lasers, a Holiday Home Decorating Craze Takes Off 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

A single, driving idea proves elusive, but that doesn’t become frustrating. Review: ‘Arabella’ Brings Intrigue to the Munich Opera Festival 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

I will look at it when it's all over, maybe, because it's frustrating. Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith reveals she has never seen an episode 2013-02-14T19:49:45Z

That is understandably frustrating when intriguing bottles are hard to find. In Trying Times, 20 Wines Under $20 That Revive and Restore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Which is why it’s so frustrating every time a new study comes out about Barbie. I’m a pro-Barbie feminist — and mom 2014-03-21T15:28:00Z

For others, it is frustrating, painful and debilitating. Is breast really best? I looked at all the data to find out 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

But it was frustrating, he added, for Dr. Walker to repeatedly face difficulty in getting orchestras to program his work. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating that that's what happens in this hierarchal system where people with privilege and power at the top, if they misuse it, can literally get away with murder and all sorts of stuff. “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Sightings of the actors are frustratingly less frequent than that of an overexcited warm-up man shouting, "Big up Leeds!" Frankenstein's Wedding ? review 2011-03-20T17:14:01Z

I think every woman has been in the position of trying to explain why this kind of thing is not OK and knows how frustrating it is to try to explain it. The Lara Logan victim blaming goes on 2011-06-24T15:25:00Z

Sometimes I “feed” books from my piles to my husband, Bill, a fast reader, because I’m a frustratingly slow reader and at least I feel I am reading them by osmosis. By the Book: Julia Alvarez 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

While this may be the point — someone like Jade isn’t ever going to be relatable — it makes for a frustrating protagonist. Read It and Scream 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

And then when it happens gradually, if you’re an impatient person especially, it’s frustrating. Aimee Mann talks about new solo effort “Mental Illness”: “You’re not in a cool rock band — you’re in a cool soft band. Embrace the soft.” 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

College is difficult and frustrating, and coming from suburbia, Jenny sees her future as uncertain and dark. Casablanca to Starship Troopers: the movie breakups that hit our writers hardest 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

If the play ends with some unfortunately unanswered questions, its conclusion is a hopeful, not frustrating, one. Review: ‘Public Obscenities’ Pushes Far Beyond One Field of Study 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

One of her greatest gifts to Joyce was allowing him to make costly revision upon revision at the last minute, though the book had already been typeset, frustrating her printer but securing the novel’s brilliance. Kevin Birmingham’s Book on ‘Ulysses’ and Censorship 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Alternately thrilling and frustrating, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's program of works by Israeli choreographers is at the very least something different. Intensity, drive energize Hubbard dance program 2011-03-18T17:19:00Z

Corporate life was a frustrating, unhappy experience for Mr. Guthrie. In Deepest Mendocino, Rebuilding a Life in Wine 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

He does this quite a lot, and even fairly banal details about his personal life are injuncted the moment they're out of his mouth, which is frustrating but unsurprising, given his publicity-shy reputation. Robbie Coltrane: 'I take no nonsense' 2012-11-09T22:59:00Z

It’s an assertion he’s fond of repeating, but whether he means it as a boast, a guilty confession or a license to break the law depends on a shifting moral perspective that remains frustratingly ambiguous. Journey on race relations takes some wrongs turns in 'White Guy on the Bus' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

It was very frustrating because I wasn’t there to just play on something like a metronome or a session player. Q&A with Stewart Copeland: Drumming with the Police, setting Sting free and investigating his dad’s time in the CIA 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

Like Phil Spector before him – but minus the sinister work ethic and homicidal tendencies – his focus on innovative girl groups and female artists is undoubtedly appealing but, frustratingly, still rather rarer than it should be. Jack White, the champion of women musicians 2011-01-29T00:06:11Z

Having proven to everyone that she can really act, it must be very frustrating to be confined to minor parts; I wish she was playing leads, and assume she must, too. Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

One of the most frustrating parts of “Euphoria” is Nate’s ability to manipulate other characters, even his victims, into doing what he wants. ‘Euphoria’ Is Back. Here’s Where It Left Off. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

A fascinating idea that’s frustratingly underdeveloped, “Violet” is a sometimes uncomfortable watch, its ambition stifled by gimmickry and its ominous tone an unfulfilled promise. ‘Violet’ Review: In Two Minds 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Most frustrating was a provision in the pass that allowed us to visit one or another attraction, but not both. Perspective | Are city passes worth it? Here’s how to tell 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

That’s all the more frustrating in the context of how much Tarantino gets right: The action, as always in his movies, is crisp and specific. Review: Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight Revels in Snow, Not So Much in People 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

I know so many actors in our community, and they’re so incredibly talented, and to feel like their talents were not put to good use was frustrating. Sanaz Toossi on Her Pulitzer: ‘This Signals to Iranians Our Stories Matter’ 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

While robust, the piece was also frustrating in all of its gyrating, jiggling, arm-twirling glory. Dance Review: Futuristic Face-Off Caps a Four-Part Program 2010-10-07T22:20:00Z

As a concept, Zero is vivid with possibilities, but, frustratingly, Willson's choreography brings it to only intermittent life. Clod Ensemble: Zero – review 2013-06-05T17:40:43Z

The long incubation, while frustrating, had its benefits. Film: A Marriage?s Death, and Post-Mortem 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z

It’s not often that one wishes for a longer running time, but frustratingly, the show rushes to its conclusion just as it was finding a hybrid groove. Review: A Legal Battle Over Adoption in ‘The Copper Children’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Severinsen spoke further about the making of “Never Too Late,” its revelations and his fulfilling, frustrating obsession with the trumpet. Doc Severinsen Recalls High Notes, Low Notes and Everything in Between 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

The most frustrating maps were those that, at first glance, might appear the most organized, with a wide array of colors. The Unmitigated Chaos of America’s Attempt at Color-Coded Covid Guidance 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

I don't find being stuck at the desk frustrating. Jon McGregor: My desktop 2012-06-20T09:06:32Z

Part of what's so frustrating is that this was totally preventable. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

It is a gripping, educational and angering and frustrating when you see the history of Asian Americans, starting with the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 banning Chinese after using them to build the railroads. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

There is often a vicious circularity that is at once frustrating and exhilarating. The Classic Novel That Makes Percival Everett Cringe 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

But – frustratingly – they don't really debut any new songs tonight. Haim – review 2013-06-02T19:05:01Z

The advice with winter-damaged plants is not to act, which is frustrating to the nurturers among us, but here are three steps that will help the plant and gardener alike. Winter-battered plants may look dead — but don’t give up on them yet 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her project is presented as small-print pages on the wall, plus a table display of related books that visitors are not allowed to pick up and browse — a frustrating mise-en-scène for an important topic. Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating to a point because I could never beat Dom,” he said. Rey Mysterio flying high as cover star for WWE 2K22 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s all pretty gross, yet totally unsurprising, and ultimately not even frustrating enough to be halfway interesting. Review | Kanye West is now trolling us from the void 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

This could become obnoxious or frustrating, but the two actors manage to milk the comedy in that set up for all it's worth. "Hobbs & Shaw" and the standalone spin-off 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Even if it is frustrating that each show only plays for two performances, it should be well worth catching the company's reportedly tradition-busting productions of Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. Into the Whirlwind - review 2011-01-23T17:59:34Z

These must be very troubling and frustrating times for you, homophobes. Being gay is not “a behavior”: Just how offensive can these anti-LGBT billboards get? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

It's also a little frustrating that it's taken this long for that to happen. "Reservation Dogs" and "Echo" star on the "appetite for Native stories" and living up to her name 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

It is in these galley scenes that the new “Ben-Hur” finally finds its rhythm after a frustratingly long and confusing dramatic setup. Review: ‘Ben-Hur’ Is a Savage Update for a New Generation 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

As for the love interest, she remains frustratingly devoid of identifying details, as if she were in a witness protection program. ‘Heart’ Review: First a Starter Marriage, Then Real Love 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s a white issue, and to expect me to solve that problem for you is frustrating,” she said. How High-End Restaurants Have Failed Black Female Chefs 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

A company called Elfin Los Angeles sells a snuggly soft onesie in a soft green eucalyptus design that eliminates over-the-head baby dressing and frustrating Velcro fasteners through a crisscross wrap design. Gifts inspired by the upcoming arrival of Baby Girl Sussex 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Here, one imagines the fulfilled dreams of Calpurnia, the indomitable Black housekeeper in Atticus’s Maycomb, Ala., home, a woman of keen insight for whom opportunity was frustratingly denied. Perspective | In Biden victory, a cast change: Out with Richard III, in with Atticus Finch 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

At the heart of this frustrating yet poignant book is the dangerous reality that there exists no solid, consistent global policy regarding ransom payments. A Freed Hostage Audits the Murky Business of Captive Negotiations 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

It is frustrating to love someone with this disease. Russell Brand: My life without drugs 2013-03-09T08:01:00Z

Every year during the holidays, a handful of unexpected breakout books sell out of stock, frustrating consumers and the authors who wrote them, but leaving the industry as a whole unscathed. Bottleneck at Printers Has Derailed Some Holiday Book Sales 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Front-runner: It’s frustrating that actors known for motion capture never seem to get the awards they deserve, simply because their performance is covered up with a patina of technology. In a truly just world, the Oscars would include these 10 categories 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The first three installments are eclectic, sometimes beguiling and each, in a different way, ultimately frustrating. Review: ‘The Romanoffs’ Is Elegant but Frustrating 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Of course there will always be frustrating incidents for a 6-year-old; we are not trying to create a perfect and problem-free environment. Perspective | How to help a 6-year-old who hits himself 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

We learn that Mila’s mother has remained in Africa, to visit her daughter only occasionally, but the details about her mother’s life, and how this absence unmoors Mila, are frustratingly scarce. For Black and Mixed-Race Women, Hair and Identity Are Tangled Together 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

But I can’t seem to get her past this and I don’t know how long I can take this very frustrating wait. She’s afraid of sex 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I certainly found him pretty frustrating to deal with just as a human being.” ‘Bolshoi Babylon’ Explores a Secretive Ballet Troupe 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Is that a frustrating state of affairs for the average Belgian? dEUS's Tom Barman: 'I was fed up with singing about myself' 2012-07-04T11:41:37Z

Buchanan, the house wing nut, finds all this moderation frustrating; he began as a peripheral figure in the Nixon White House, a political gunslinger perhaps a bit too hot for the high-rent nuances of governance. Patrick Buchanan Reveals Himself to Be the First Trumpist 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

For Brookner, it's a frustrating development preventing her from holding those in power accountable. She was a CIA spy. Now she’s a lawyer battling her old agency. This is her story. 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

This strange insistence on moralizing teen pain, while also presenting completely amoral storylines, makes season three such a frustrating watch. 13 Reasons Why: what the controversial drama gets wrong 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

The band finds this a little bit frustrating. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

I was chatting with my mother-in-law yesterday about how I knew it was frustrating for them when there are many rules in the special-care nursery. Carolyn Hax: Baby’s not even out of the hospital yet, but Grandma delivers first lie 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Almost all of the guests are frustrating to watch in their own ways. “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

And those who promote cider are hearing a frustratingly familiar refrain: I don’t like cider. How sweet it isn’t: Cidermakers are working on ways to fight the misconception 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

In my experience, partners find it frustrating, not nearly as endearing and whimsical as these statements and products would suggest. Please Stop Merchandising Mental Illness 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

For all the reasons you might imagine, it’s incredibly difficult and frustrating to watch. “Sugar Town”: The shocking story of a young black man’s suspicious suicide while in police... 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

A comment made by Scott at a recent junket about the ongoing travails of quantum physicists perhaps offers a frustrating clue. Can you solve the Prometheus puzzle? 2012-06-13T15:44:05Z

To not apply your skills is a painful, frustrating limitation. "Have more Asian friends": James Shen reflects on Hollywood, activism & new series "Run the World" 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

The election was in full force from almost the beginning, and while his “I just learned this” attitude towards American politics can be endearing, it’s frustrating for viewers expecting a deeper layer of critique. Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

More frustrating, fans watching from farther back, beyond the soundboard, could have had decent views were it not for the gigantic camera crane maneuvering back and forth. Searing sets save Made in America L.A. 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

At times, Keeping Up with the Germans is frustrating in that he lets so much rich material go. Keeping Up with the Germans by Philip Oltermann ? review 2012-02-09T09:00:01Z

But as is his frustrating custom, Mr. Weiner was offering few other concrete details about the new  season in a phone interview on Tuesday, not even to specify what year it will be set in. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Set to Return on April 7 2013-01-23T13:00:03Z

There’s concert footage, but not much, and what there is often comes, frustratingly, without comment. ‘Greenwich Village’: a flashback to ’60s folk-music scene 2013-05-30T19:43:49Z

And winter sightseeing can be especially frustrating in smaller tourist towns, where many sights and restaurants close down entirely. Vacation like a local by embracing Europe in the offseason 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

In an animated feature, “The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special,” Tom Hanks reprises his role as a frustratingly enigmatic dancing man in a pumpkin-patterned suit. What’s on TV Saturday: Black Sabbath’s Final Performance and ‘Arrival’ 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

More successful at conjuring atmosphere than at plot, “We Go Way Back” is nicely acted but frustratingly slight. | 'We Go Way Back': When Past and Present Collide 2011-04-29T04:03:02Z

Recently, after a very frustrating encounter with an airline employee during a delayed flight, I took to Twitter with a nonspecific, snarky complaint, neatly delivered in 140 characters. Perspective | Ask Amy: The customer isn’t always right 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Trying to figure out the best way to remove Gogo’s shoes, or to hang themselves with a frustratingly short length of rope, they morph into a writhing human pretzel. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

Similarly, the elements ostensibly centered on theodicies and determinism are frustratingly low-level, and it’s here that the novel’s extensive reliance on magic most impairs deep inquiry. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

"It's a frustrating thing being the woman producer," Kauffman said, even on a smash hit such as "Friends," which she and David Crane created and produced. 'Girls' shine on TV, but not behind the scenes 2012-09-21T19:01:15Z

For Weller, it became a frustrating case of he said/she said. Perspective | Hotel guests are baffled by after-the-fact damage charges. Here’s what’s going on. 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Most people will, but it’s kind of frustrating. Buddy-Cop Banter With a Brogue 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z

Entertainment Weekly's Kyle Anderson said the album "furthers the uncomfortable and frustrating disconnect between Brown's hotheaded personal life and his oddly edgeless musical persona," and gave it a 'C-minus'. Chris Brown's 'Fortune' a miss for critics 2012-07-04T02:06:16Z

Given the strictures of the culture, an ambitious and intelligent woman might well find convent life both fulfilling and frustrating. This Week in Fiction: Alice McDermott 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

While this discrepancy is frustrating, Ms. Maggs is optimistic about the capacity of fans to help change it. At Comic-Con, It Feels Like the Year of the Woman 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

But there was something frustrating about the film too. TV review: My Resignation 2011-08-03T21:00:05Z

Though Toews remains frustratingly unknown in the United States, she has long been one of my favorite contemporary authors. Review | More than 100 women were raped by their neighbors for years — but no one would believe them. 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Stephen Sondheim once listed it among songs he wished he had written, but it was also linked to one of Mr. Lawrence’s most frustrating experiences, the 1965 musical “Kelly.” Eddie Lawrence, Comedian, Actor and Pitchman, Is Dead at 95 2014-03-31T00:10:54Z

But the lack of education and enforcement by these ride-sharing companies is not just an inconvenience, it’s frustrating, humiliating and illegal. The Daily Spike: Ride-sharing services and service dogs 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Are you the right dog? Are you the one?” asks Camila, a harried lawyer in a frustrating marriage, arriving at the shelter to find a pet. Review | Dogs, snakes and piccolos: New operas take WNO stage 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

I can't work it out, somebody has to sit down and show me – I find it terribly frustrating. Gregg Wallace: 'I'd like to have my iPod make my coffee in the morning' 2011-02-18T14:45:00Z

But it is also occasionally hampered by those means, and can have a frustrating lack of interpretive focus. | 'Henry V': A Kingdom for a Stage, Princes to Act ...and Maybe a Better Hall? 2011-08-17T21:51:54Z

“It’s frustrating because this art museum situation is not the first low blow,” Duray said, referring to the discontinuation of the theater degree and cost-cutting measures in the music department. Its Georgia O’Keeffe Is Worth Millions. And Its Dorms Need Updating. 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

It’s quite frustrating, feeling as though I have to walk on eggshells voicing my opinion, when so many photographers are out there doing whatever they want. The Next Great Image Makers 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a form of cowardice that can be more frustrating than his monetary habits.” Arthur Marx, Who Wrote About Groucho, Dies at 89 2011-04-15T01:17:54Z

“It’s very frustrating — especially since I think I have a lot to say on the questions of the day.” Perspective | Conservative media was Scottie Nell Hughes’s world. Now it’s her enemy. 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the greatest comedian memoirs but also a pointedly frustrating mix of fact and fiction, cliché and originality. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

My own TV profile has left me open to a lot of trolling on social media, which can become tiring and frustrating. I was cynical about Greta Thunberg’s voyage, but she’s upsetting all the right people | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

Happily, though, it never quite reaches those destinations and thus avoids the fate of “Jindabyne,” Ray Lawrence’s frustratingly uneven adaptation of “So Much Water So Close to Home,” one of Carver’s best stories. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z

And it's frustrating because as restaurant people, that's horrible for us. "We'll all get there together": Chef Edward Lee on restaurants' resiliency and #MeToo in the kitchen 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

Some important matters are inevitably, and frustratingly, left on the table. ‘Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes’ Review: Portrait of a News Exec 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s frustrating because the photos will be taken early in the morning when there’s few people around, or during colder seasons when people are more bundled up. 50 shades of Shutterstock 2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

The boiler room girls, on-screen and in real life, remain frustratingly out of focus. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

Exile Marmol, 61, tried to track down his family's paintings after his father died in 2009 but it was a frustrating search. Despite detente, search for art looted in Cuba could take years 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Even amid the attention, it’s a frustrating time for Paul and his ardent admirers. Ron Paul: If I'm leading polls, I'm electable 2012-01-01T22:30:00Z

But negotiations broke down, and both sides have since refused to budge -- frustrating some advertisers and thousands of Dodgers fans who are unable to watch the games. Dodgers' TV channel ratings off to bumpy start 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

These glitches were far from catastrophic, but they were frustrating because I could usually imagine, or remember, just how good the dish was supposed to be. Adventure (Try a Goat’s Head?) Is Still on the Menu at Babbo 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

This tension between the visuals and narrative is sometimes frustrating, and can make the movie difficult to follow. ‘Song Without a Name’ Review: A Tragedy in the Peruvian Hillside 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Yet this production is frustratingly flawed, in a way that does its stars no favors. ‘Darling Grenadine’ Review: A Retro Cocktail With Little Kick 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Though inevitably frustrating to listen to at times, “Last Seen” is also perfect binge material, with the host Kelly Horan’s hypnotic narration guiding listeners through a juicy, baffling, stranger-than-fiction tale. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

I sure would like to travel by high speed rail instead of the frustrating, uncomfortable, sardine tubes in the air we are stuck with. 10 Ways to Be a Greener Traveler, Even if You Love to Fly 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Needless to say, this is expensive and frustrating. South-facing wood should be finished with paint, not varnish 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

“There were frustrating times, times I’d get really mad, scream. But Mom and Dad were so tolerant, they seemed to just understand,” he said. The man in the iron lung 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

We hear the voice near the start of “Maze,” a frustrating dance-theater work debuting at the Shed this week. ‘Maze’ Review: Virtuoso Street Dance Sends Blurry Message 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

But the thread here is Dr. Marcus’s own often frustrating attempts to learn guitar. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z

But there's the frustrating sense of ideas bubbling too low beneath the surface, of mordant jokes serving as an end rather than a means. Cannes 2013: Borgman - first look review 2013-05-19T18:16:00Z

"Bridgerton" is equal parts promising and frustrating, in that it shows a type of period piece traditionally presented as entirely white and places Black nobility in a central role. From "The Bachelor" to "Bridgerton," examining the fraught dynamics of interracial romance on TV 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

It's truly embarrassing that a male-driven genre has yet to mature beyond this point, and even more frustrating is that these two don't have more respect for their very large female fan base. We count every rap cliche in Chris Brown and Tyga's 'Fan of a Fan' 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Although they found themselves constantly and frustratingly interrupted by other colleagues, “This was my first real one-on-one conversation with Anne,” Ms. Stebich said. United in Love, But Living on Separate Coasts 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Raulff ranges far and wide to tell the story of the complicated relationship between humans and horses — an elegy that is labyrinthine in the varied places it goes, but never frustrating. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

"It's a growing problem and what's so frustrating of course is that it's solvable," she adds. Gig venues at risk in noise disputes 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating to see people make so much money so quickly. I feel I’m being speculated. It’s not me. It’s the new art world.” How the Artist Adrian Ghenie Became an Auction Star 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

It’s frustrating, mostly because there are so many incredibly talented, really funny women out there, and I look forward to when those movies come out — to “Trainwreck” and movies like that. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Star in 'The Skeleton Twins' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It gets a little more frustrating each time. How to Get to Heaven With the Hutterites; Heritage! The Battle For Britain's Past – TV review 2013-03-08T07:00:30Z

What’s even more frustrating is that these plot lines deviate from the books and the writers have wantonly included it in most seasons. Why I Want To Stop Watching 'Game Of Thrones' 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Is it frustrating to not be able to move on? Sarah Jessica Parker on 'Divorce' and 'Sex and the City' 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

But, unfortunately, readers will find their own progress slowed by a number of frustrating questions. All of the romance and none of the thrills in Nicholas Sparks’s latest novel 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

“It’s particularly frustrating to me as an IT person that something like this can happen,” Meola said. Computer problems causing widespread United flight delays 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating to see the denial of publishing folks,” Patrick says. This D.C. press helps diverse young writers express themselves ‘from a place of power’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Opera’s long-range planning cycles can be frustrating when a singer has a major success and you want to hear more of him, right away. Critic’s Notebook: Javier Camarena to Sing in ‘La Cenerentola’ 2014-04-20T22:05:39Z

But it was frustrating that he did not bring the high-waist shorts more down to earth as a fresh cut for ordinary pants. Special Report: Fashion: In the Money! 2011-06-19T12:10:33Z

He remembers the dancer’s potential anonymity in a big company as both frustrating and comforting. Ballet v6.0, a New Festival, Makes Its Debut at the Joyce 2013-08-05T21:52:17Z

As frustrating as this could be, it was hard to be annoyed when the voice at the other end impersonated a game-show host or IRS flunky. Don’t shoot me! I’m just picking mushrooms! 2013-09-08T13:30:00Z

“The Heroine With 1001 Faces” offers a response to that request — an erudite but frustratingly unfocused one. Forget the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and Consider the Heroine’s Quest Instead 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating – if you work here, you want the network to do well. ArtsBeat: A Candid Conversation With Alec Baldwin (Is There Any Other Kind?) 2012-04-25T13:18:02Z

It's a frustratingly mundane reason for a great band to fall short, but on this occasion the idea of Hercules & Love Affair proves more potent than the delivery. Hercules & Love Affair – review 2012-08-08T16:44:23Z

What is frustrating about this book is that key facts emerge only haphazardly or not at all . Book reviews roundup 2011-01-29T00:06:19Z

Lighting is a problem here, a frustrating mix of dimness and glare. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z

Sex is paradoxically the most frustrating and the most meaningful way for me to learn how to detach from the desire for results. My husband had to learn sex again, and I had to become one tenacious bitch 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

That’s painful, no question, but the complexities of the world that he and Sisa inhabit are as frustratingly elusive as their inner lives. ‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

But this fascinating tale begs for a more thorough mini-series treatment, he said, adding, “So watch the film for a well-acted CliffsNotes version of the book — intriguing and thought-provoking, but also frustrating.” What’s on TV Saturday: Oprah Winfrey in ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Scheduling the Lagos catwalk shows back-to-back was slightly frustrating. Nigeria, on the Fashion Catwalk 2012-11-14T10:36:25Z

It’s a representative introduction to the show, which opened on Thursday at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University, and its frustrating mix of past and present, real and fake, heavy-handed and understated. ‘Healing Wars,’ by Liz Lerman, Portrays Soldiers’ Trauma 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

"The Immaculate Room" ends with a frustrating lack of ambiguity. The intriguing, well-acted "Immaculate Room" isolates a couple for 50 days as a test of resolve 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

It's been frustrating of course, one would like to have had a better result. "Captive State" director Rupert Wyatt on sci-fi, commercial failure and the age of Trum 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

It's so frustrating to watch this, especially as he's becoming a teenager, when his confidence will continue to be tested. Perspective | My tween gives up at the first sign of struggle. How can I help him stick with things? 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Some of that will be fun, and some tedious, and some frustrating, but all in all, it’s likely to be a good day. Motherlode Blog: How Do We Think About a Mother's Suicide? 2012-05-18T19:29:14Z

That is, save for one passage, “The Internet,” which invites the viewer to sit through a man’s frustrating conversation with his mother and illuminates very little in the process. Hotel-based shows “Room 104″ and “The Guest Book” have limited staying power 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

While making her way through her altered surroundings can be frustrating, Bet manages to find humor in it — though not so much when it’s her own family denying her disability. New Podcasts Worth Checking Out 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Then there were the frustrating attempts to send footage to the UK for processing. Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011-02-03T23:30:00Z

He worked in bronze but found the process frustrating. Toy-maker shifts gears into sculpting career 2011-02-28T22:54:36Z

You know it if you have spent the frustrating hours I have trying to crack the mysterious code governing business hours at the anachronistic enterprises that — once you know them — make Milan a shopper’s haven. The Europe Issue : How I Fell for Milan 2011-04-15T18:55:00Z

And much of what we see is presented with frustratingly little context. ‘The Nightcrawlers’ and ‘Lost and Found’ Review: Short Documentaries Tackle Big Issues 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

So after Stan is freed and Pizarro defeated, Leah awakes at the same desk where, in the opening, she has had a frustrating phone call with a lawyer. Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

But the more frustrating reason is wrapped up with the aims of the franchise, which are more about longevity than they are about narrative logic. What ‘WandaVision’ Gets Right (and Wrong) About Female Superheroes 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

It all made for a varied collection with some great looks, but one that was frustratingly hard to pin down. Westwood, Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf play on style 2013-03-03T03:01:05Z

Being black isn’t an insult, it’s a privilege, and something I’m proud of, but it’s when it’s used to diminish your talents or your accomplishments that it gets frustrating.” Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl to HBO star 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Freedom,” co-directed by David Austin, is frustratingly opaque about the last decade of its subject’s personal life with scarcely a glimpse of the older Mr. Michael, save for a “Carpool Karaoke” appearance with James Corden. Your Week in Culture: Jay-Z, Eugene O’Neill and ‘Princess Bride’ in Theaters Nationwide 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

If this is frustrating, then it is appropriately so: a fitting enactment of the ghostly silence into which so many of the desaparecidos — the disappeared — fell. Child’s Eye View of the Dirty War 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Though it is often a good sign when wines are made in small quantities, it’s also frustrating for consumers. Your Next Lesson: Riesling 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Gemma told me how frustrating it was to keep coming up against the question: "Who's the bride and who's the groom?" How to have a feminist wedding 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

More of a poem or a city symphony than a documentary, it drifts freely, sometimes frustratingly between captured and fictionalized moments. Review: ‘Hong Kong Trilogy,’ Captures the Voices of the People 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“I get it, honey. It is frustrating when . . . ” or “I get why you don’t care about . . . . I didn’t either when I was 8.” Why is my otherwise polite 8-year-old so rude at home? 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

These stories, frustratingly, were in the TV interview but are not in this book. In ‘The Threat,’ Andrew McCabe Issues the Latest Warning Call About Trump’s America 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

This is an ongoing and highly frustrating problem! Hints From Heloise: Turn your attention to the signal 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Somewhat frustratingly, Arnold does not offer his own verdict, leaving readers to consider which might be the best of bad options. A Writer’s Trip Into the Amazon Reveals Brazil and Himself 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

I wouldn’t say it’s become acceptable, but it’s the frustrating reality: Busyness and distractions, plus greater geographical distances between providers and clients, increase the odds of missed connections. Work Advice: Stood up? Don’t take it lying down. 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Nishida complied and the test was negative, but called the experience “humiliating and frustrating.” Airline asks woman to take pregnancy test before boarding flight to Saipan, cites island's immigration concerns 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

This is certainly part and parcel of the frustrating age we live in, where the ex-leaders we've mentioned do not take responsibility for what they have done. Richard E. Grant on sex, power and playing an entitled man similar to the "Teflon-coated" Trump 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

More frustrating, as Bayley discovered, is when you successfully hire a bike but cannot find a place to return it at your destination. Has London's cycle hire scheme been a capital idea? 2011-07-10T07:00:01Z

However, there's a frustrating sense of being served highlights. America: The Story of the US 2010-09-06T05:45:00Z

It was frustrating, because I learned how to actually do those stunts, and I just wanted to do them. Ryan Gosling on the violence of femininity 2011-05-23T17:01:00Z

The introduction of the monoliths and the multiple worlds, while a bit frustrating for how much time it took up this season, does make sense. Why "The Wheel of Time" succeeds as an adaptation (and "The Witcher" fails) 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Having a call get broken up or drop repeatedly when you haven’t spoken to someone in months is really, really frustrating. These Are the Best Calling Apps for Travelers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Even in the most frustrating sleep-deprived moments, it's an absolute joy. Julia Stiles gets Shakespearean again: On murder, betrayal and the powerful women of "Riviera" 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating and it certainly made me angry at different times… It’s tough.” Geena Davis: ‘After Thelma & Louise, people said things would improve for women in film. They didn’t’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

It was a frustrating time of my life. Femi Kuti expands the legacy of legendary father 2011-04-28T13:40:53Z

It was a lighthearted moment in an otherwise confusing, ponderous evening, which was full of false endings and choreography that was both frustratingly repetitive and limited in scope. Dance Review: ‘Rian,’ From Fabulous Beast Dance Theater, at Gerald W. Lynch 2012-11-10T00:56:45Z

Otherwise, this narrative feature debut from Camille Thoman is mostly a frustrating jumble of surreal puzzle pieces that audiences will likely be uninterested in solving. Review: Secrets and Lies in ‘Never Here’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

The most frustrating part of the whole thing is that the Veronica Mars Kickstarter may end up unintentionally destroying projects with genuine potential. Why Veronica Mars‘ Kickstarter May Be A Sign of Bad Things To Come 2013-03-22T15:06:10Z

Or the brilliant and frustrating figure who abused and stonewalled reporters sent to interpret him? Bob Dylan, a laureate sure, but by what measure a poet 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a risky strategy, frustrating at first, but it eventually dramatizes Clegg’s intimation that no one is peripheral. Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ navigates grief and recovery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

It was so worrying and so frustrating,” Taylor says. 'In pain all the time': will there ever be a cure for chronic, life-changing UTIs? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

Given the growing disaster of climate change, it’s especially frustrating to Cohen and others that Wallace intends to highlight “violence in our cities,” a constant Fox News talking point. Perspective | Rewrite that list of debate topics, Chris Wallace. And put the climate crisis at No. 1. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Majors is reflectively and sensitively persuasive as a bold and insightful artist stuck in frustrating circumstances. Review: The Disappointing Blandness of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Sister Johanna’s passivity — both forced and otherwise — can be frustrating, particularly in moments of crisis, when one longs for her simply to act, ignoring the consequences. A Not-So-Cold Case in Not-So-Frigid Iceland 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Around the world, people are choosing “active commutes” over sedentary, monotonous and often frustrating battles with the rush-hour masses. Global Athlete: Hitting the Road to Get to Work, and Back 2011-10-07T15:39:07Z

What I find the most frustrating is that my uncle never sought forgiveness and acted quite deplorably to me and at a least one of my other siblings in the aftermath. Daughter of a pornographer 2014-02-02T00:59:00Z

The narrative arc of the book is a little frustrating because the history of New York policing during the time span Chadwick chose to describe is frustrating. Tracing the Origins of the New York Police Department 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

If you’re still shivering under that blanket, “it’s even more frustrating.” Making friends as an adult is hard. Would you pay $720 for help? 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

That means our fitful luck in connecting with his characters is determined to a frustrating extent by where we sit. Review: In ‘At the Table,’ a Menu of Identity-Based Arguments 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

A few of the 13 episodes remain frustratingly obscure to non-comic-book aficionados. The action-packed thrill of comic books, onstage 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It is frustrating beyond measure for them when a daughter screams, “You don’t understand, and you’ll never understand!” Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z

“It’s been frustrating,” said Stephen Morrison, the publisher of Picador. ‘The Revenant’ Author Michael Punke Has a Day Job 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Thompson tells us frustratingly little about this episode straight out of le Carré. The Arbiter of Aristocracy: And No, It’s Not Downton’s Dowager 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

That’s as stultifying and frustrating as it sounds, even if it’s justified as “heritage” or “DNA.” J. Lo Wins Milan. Fashion Comes Second. 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

It was very frustrating to make: We got so much input from people who were never going to see the movie. Joe Dante: ‘Gremlins’ Director Reflects on His Biggest Hits 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

But Cross seemed frustrated that comedic actors aren’t always taken seriously for dramatic roles: It’s really frustrating that people still think that way. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross Wrote A Book, Say Hollywood Is Like “a DMV office” 2013-10-04T16:35:51Z

Like many coveted objects, berries are both precious and frustrating, expensive and fragile. How to Keep Berries Fresh for Longer 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The book lacks coherence, but Gordon’s score is frustrating for a different reason: It actually has potential. Review: In ‘The Gospel According to Heather,’ the Messiah Has Homeroom 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z

It can be frustrating to be a fan of Ms. Brewer, one of the leading vocalists of the day, since she is quite selective about her opera roles and limits her concert schedule. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:38:38Z

While frustrating on the one hand, it gave her a great sense of freedom on the other. Toronto Film Festival: 'Keeping Room' a window into women, Civil War 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It was a little frustrating because I couldn’t find anything in my budget,” said Abdullah, 25, who was sharing on-campus housing with four other students until she graduated from Tufts University. One roommate is 85, the other is 27. Such arrangements are growing. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

She and Wilde didn’t share any scenes, “which was frustrating, because she’s Irish and I’m Irish, and I think Irish people make the best actors.” Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

I see my kids as part of my life, a rich, funny, exhilarating, sometimes exhausting/painful/frustrating, always loving and lovable part. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A child wants to pursue a hobby but doesn’t want to upset parents 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Until then, we can most definitely expect the marketing blitz to continue apace, unearthing frustratingly little. Two New 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' TV Spots Focus on Kylo Ren's Attack 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

On "Strange Little Girls," Amos offers complex personalities and complicated plot details — broadening musical history narratives that are often male-driven and frustratingly narrow. Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girls" is a quietly triumphant covers collection that endures 20 years on 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Packing an extraordinary soul singer's voice, Watts is more interested in sound than words; the lyrics are sometimes nonsense, and sometimes frustratingly inaudible. Reggie Watts – review 2013-06-19T16:54:00Z

Volodos is a frustrating player, technically remarkable – the perfectly weighted evenness of much of his playing was a marvel – but apparently unable to convey real expressiveness. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly ? review 2010-12-05T21:46:00Z

In spite of the backstage hosannas, this must be deeply frustrating to a woman of her intellectual curiosity. Fashion Review: Prada, Jil Sander, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Neil Barrett, Zegna and Calvin Klein Show Spring 2014 Collections During Milan Men’s Fashion Week 2013-06-26T21:45:04Z

Simply being young does not guarantee immunity from the frustratingly crusty decisions of a stereotypical fogy. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z

A curate's egg then; oddly incidental, often frustrating, but occasionally enjoyable. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-05-25T23:05:09Z

Mr. Acharya passed along some useful tricks he uses when traveling to better guess when a delay is going to stick, or even “creep” forward, to use frustratingly accurate airline lingo. Help! Spirit Airlines Left Us Behind in Guatemala City 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

User feedback said live subtitles made viewing "frustrating, and, on occasion, unwatchable," it added. Subtitles make live TV 'unwatchable' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Gary didn’t tell anyone where he was headed the night he disappeared, frustrating the authorities and the private detective hired by Gary’s sister, Beverly. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

He detailed his nightmares about misfortunes befalling his wife and three sons during his long absences, and his frustrating efforts to set up self-sufficient potteries in Ghana and Nigeria. Antiques: Michael Cardew, British Ceramist, Is Subject of a Biography 2012-12-21T05:27:15Z

"My father was not a math professor at Columbia," Shalhoub said on "Salon Talks," "but he was a self-made successful man, and he had a certain kind of love slash frustrating relationship with his children." "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

And though that is frustrating in its own way, it’s also illustrative of what has made “Togetherness” so appealing. The empty charter school dream: “Togetherness” sides with smug hipster parents and falls apart 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

When I interrupt her to suggest the correct words, it appears to be more frustrating than helpful for her. Perspective | Miss Manners: Formal lessons preferable to ‘helpful’ interruptions 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

This will not only get you more bites, but will help to prevent line twist and tangles, the 2 most frustrating problems with deepwater trolling. Look for big lake trout lurking in Lake Chelan 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Tom's logic is warped and his inability to listen to and empathize with his ex-girlfriend of nearly 10 years is more than frustrating and disappointing, it's concerning. What "Vanderpump Rules" cad Tom Sandoval and incels have in common 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating that people keep writing lazy obituaries for cinema, something they have no feeling for or interest in. Our Film Critics Discuss the Future of Movies 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

And that's about as much as he reveals about himself, frustrating the songwriter in Knightley, who considers Sharp a far tougher nut to crack than Charles Darwin. Folk's man of mystery: is Cecil Sharp a folk hero or villain? 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z

"Not being able to talk with the extras was very frustrating for me," Canet said. Canet seeks gritty New York in 'Blood Ties' 2013-05-22T12:04:17Z

As we struggle through this period of cold-turkey deprivation of many kinds, our appreciation deepens for the kinds of beauty that seem frustratingly out of our reach. Review | A blessed event for hard times: Sondheim sung by Broadway’s best 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

There’s something admirable about a show so defiantly opposed to change, but something frustrating, too. ‘New Girl’ Returns, Up to Its Old Tricks 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

This level of detail makes it a bit frustrating that whole series kicked off with a carelessly constructed sequence. Review: 'The Night Of' Tells a Powerful Story of Injustice 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

It’s accurate, then, to say an expansive portion of “Mrs. Fletcher” involves Eve’s self-discovery but frustratingly, we’re denied its version of an “O” moment. The sexual frustration of "Mrs. Fletcher" 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

"It wasn't so much as frustrating," the teen says. Art teacher's effort to help disabled student inspires hot Xbox accessory 2011-03-29T21:04:57Z

The model kept arguing with Whiteson and refused to hold a given pose, frustrating the artists by staying in constant motion. Forget karaoke: People are getting naked for art in sketchy British pubs 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

But while the solution CNN hit on may have been satisfying to the candidates, it was frustrating for the viewer. CNN's Super-Sized Debate Helps Candidates and Hurts Viewers 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating because I was so excited to show this at Comic-Con – I made the movie for that crowd.” Comic-Con Nixes Wet T-Shirt Scene in 'Piranha 3-D' 2010-07-14T21:43:00Z

An exhibition was held in 1983 but, frustratingly, though a catalogue essay was produced, many details about his life and artistic practice remained unanswered. Leonard Beaumont exhibition pays tribute to Sheffield's prints charming 2012-12-31T16:00:01Z

“It’s frustrating to have to do all of this essentially just for the state, not for the woman,” she said. It’s not just forced ultrasound: Abortion rights under assault 2012-10-21T12:00:00Z

The lack of sufficient staffers means callers may be put on hold while in the midst of an emergency, which would be unimaginably stressful and frustrating. John Oliver Declares an Emergency on 911 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Marling, ethereal and vague, is a lovely presence but seems frustratingly subdued. 'Sound of My Voice' is infuriatingly creepy 2012-05-03T20:17:11Z

They can feel a bit obvious, at least in comparison to the disturbing tapestry that surrounds them, which makes the fact that they offer pleasurable relief frustrating. Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Instead, it simply lets them be people — funny, passionate, sometimes frustrating — which helps the first season, arriving Friday on Amazon Prime Video, create a vibrant world in eight short episodes. Review: ‘As We See It,’ Where the Quest for ‘Normal’ Is Extraordinary 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s frustrating to try to capture even a glimpse of the man, his verbal virtuosity, his wit and Irish charm. ArtsBeat: Another Kind of Music 2013-08-30T22:44:13Z

The ten minute rant was generously peppered with jokes — and a dig at Arby’s — but Stewart was able to dig into some frustrating ideological differences. “Even watching it is killing me”: Jon Stewart looks back at 16 years of Fox News insanity 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Even happy families are complicated, at turns opaque, frustrating, self-interested and staunchly resistant or just oblivious to the passage of time. Carolyn Hax: Deflecting unwanted questions about family 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

He also has a history of being late, which feeds stereotypes about self-importance but is mostly just frustrating. They laughed when Diddy launched a fashion line. Then he changed the industry. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

It is the rightness of Bill Maher that, to anyone with a more developed sense of compassion, ends up being the most frustrating. Bill Maher’s moral superiority: Grandstanding on Islam and political correctness while tragedy in Paris unfolds 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

It is frustrating because we finally won round a lot of those people who were against the place. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z

The games are often frustratingly random, irritatingly saccharine, or just plain boring. Mario Sports Mix ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:38Z

“It is repetitive, unoriginal, simplistic and frustratingly short.” At 93, Former Resistance Fighter Goads France to Outrage 2011-03-09T10:30:05Z

This is nothing particularly new, but it’s frustrating all the same. How NBC Took Advantage of Olympic Fans 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Sometimes things are frustrating and super-annoying when changes are made to your travel plans for what seems like no rational cause. When "Oh No!" Is What You Want To Hear From Your Airline 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

There’s nothing about Beth’s frustrating experience that Close can’t turn to comic effect, which is essential to keeping the novel from sinking into a long whine. ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Then the evolution is not organic but frustratingly piecemeal. Santa Monica's 'grand bargain' on growth and housing: A model for other cities? 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

“It can be frustrating, this business of democracy,” he said then, understating the matter drastically. Obama’s Lessons, Unlearned 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

They look at what sells around the world — now foreign sales are as important as domestic — and it’s really frustrating, because they add up those numbers, and two women often don’t equal one man. Female Stars Talk Candidly About Sexism in Hollywood 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Readers will immediately understand the frustrating, unavoidable struggles of both Delie and Champ, and revel in their hard-won happily ever after. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

And quite often the same jokes about frustrating publishers or fear of failure apply to both. He Makes Physics Funny 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

“A Chorus Line” was a very frustrating thing for me. Oscar’s Most Talented Newcomer Is 59-Year-Old Antonio Banderas 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

When there is a long or frustrating day, I try to think about the big picture. Running, stretching and reading for fun outside of school helps this kindergarten teacher feel her best 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

But in recent years, he's become best known for pulling one of pop music's most frustrating disappearing acts. Maxwell is ready for his comeback — finally 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

“La Dosis” raises many such issues and plays out none of them, making for a frustratingly vague watch. ‘La Dosis’ Review: Dictating Death 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

As we bumped back to Dadanawa ranch from our excursion on the savannah, I turned to one of our guides to ask if she finds it frustrating that so few people visit her country. 2010-02-06T04:52:00Z

Oscar-nominated actress Rooney Mara says the gender pay gap between men and women in Hollywood is frustrating but that her concerns are dwarfed by pay equity further down the economic ladder. Rooney Mara Steps Into Hollywood Gender Pay Gap Debate 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

While the movie is feminist in intent and in meaning, and though she’s given narrative time, she remains frustratingly opaque, without the inner life to balance the busily thrashing men. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

But the frustrating production — designed, directed and choreographed by the artist Jan Lauwers — essentially turned the opera into a dance piece. At Salzburg, an Unlikely Operatic Trio of Women Finding Their Way 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

The outlandish world presented by "Tiger King" is funny, gross, frustrating, contemplative, and ultimately sympathetic. Netflix's "Tiger King" is an enthralling yet humane look at when the outlandish becomes an obsession 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

One of the most frustrating aspects of renting a vacation home online — perhaps second only to a rental not remotely resembling its photos or description — is what is missing. There Are No Towels? The Renter’s Lament 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

I mean, nobody wants to listen to music that sounds complicated and frustrating to play. Q&A: Kings of Convenience on new album and key to longevity 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

Of course, the shortages of kits can prove frustrating to customers who can’t find them. Can’t. Stop. Self-Swabbing. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The image at first seems of a piece with the notoriously unrevealing Bach, about whose life and character frustratingly little is known. A Bach Portrait, Heading to Germany, Gets Musical Send-Off 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

But the same high fivers chatter away frustratingly during new songs from her excellent forthcoming album Havoc and Bright Lights. Alanis Morissette – review 2012-06-28T17:09:37Z

What’s frustrating is that I want to tell people just how hard trauma and shame is, and that’s what makes you uncomfortable in your skin. Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

We try to change what is frustrating us. Behind the 7-year-old’s anger 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Part 2 is a wandering, sometimes frustrating sequel to the very straightforward Hemingwayesque quality of Part 1. ‘Inheritance From Mother’: A must-read novel about the tangled bonds of motherhood 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

It was frustrating, because the testing was supposed to keep us safe, but it started to work against us. Playing Jesus in a Pandemic Summer 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Like that girl a few weeks ago: “In my mind I completely saw the picture, but I didn’t get her, and it was so frustrating,” Ms. McCartney said. Mary McCartney’s Candid Camera 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

My father was not a math professor at Columbia, but he was a self-made successful man, and he had a certain kind of love slash frustrating relationship with his children. "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

By midseason, though, he barely appeared to be paying attention, his flights of grammar more frustrating than novel. Critic's Notebook: The ?Idol? Season: Sharper, With More Stars 2011-05-26T16:53:31Z

If you forget your phone charger while on holiday alone, it’s certainly frustrating, but you are inconveniencing only yourself. Wish you weren’t here? How to survive your first holiday as a couple 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Like much else in the movie, it’s frustrating. Review: ‘Frank Serpico’ Updates the Story of the Man Behind a Classic Movie 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z

But her staff is limited, and her board, chaired by Griff, is frustratingly cautious about taking on additional responsibilities and risks. Review | A novel that’s a lot like life: Jumbled and challenging and wonderfully real 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

You don't get much idea of him, or even the story, from this frustrating little film, though. The Playboy Murderer (C4), My Family (BBC1), The?Old?Guys (BBC1) 2010-07-09T21:45:00Z

While the Met’s display offers viewers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study these sculptures more closely than their customary presentation allows, it is also somewhat frustrating. Last Chance: ?Mourners,? Many Faces of Grief, at Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-12T21:46:00Z

I know the answer is to just be patient, but it’s frustrating. A 4-year-old has tantrums over ‘silly problems.’ How patient should this parent be? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

I found the novel’s defensiveness about the moral dubiousness of its aesthetic project kind of charming, but also frustrating. Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Theron’s physical performance may overcome her dodgy English accent, but it’s hard to flesh out a heroine who is so frustratingly enigmatic. Violent femmes: Atomic Blonde and Hollywood’s new wave of killer women 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Lei: There is a frustrating moment where people would address it. “A Taste of Sky”: A post-food documentary about one man's vision and new purpose for fine dining 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

It’s a frustrating read that spins futilely through its 512 pages desperately looking for interesting characters or engaging narrative drive. In Connie Willis' 'Crosstalk,' sci-fi meets romance in an overcommunication age 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

It’s both aesthetically and politically frustrating, and the three female stars, by turns, transcend their material and are dragged down by it. Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

But then he added, "It's a very frustrating thing. I wish this dispute got settled up. Clearly Amazon's making kind of a power play here -- in my opinion." Paul Ryan is of two minds about Amazon -- or is he? 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

"Yeti," a tale from the Himalayas, is especially frustrating. The Cabiri's 'Winternacht': spooky chills 2011-10-21T16:04:03Z

From 1164 an isolated Becket spent six frustrating years in exile, living as a monk in France, till a patched-up reconciliation with Henry enabled his return to Canterbury, just months before his murder. Thomas Becket, Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim by John Guy - review 2012-05-18T21:55:07Z

Certainly the final segment, which includes the plight of refugees, is both heart-rending and frustrating. Review: In Documentaries on Syria, Much Despair and a Dash of Hope 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

It is this reluctance that ultimately renders “In the Land of Men” a painful and frustrating read. Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’ 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

West is a frustrating puzzle for fans and critics alike. ‘I do not want to take Kanye West seriously. But I know that we have to.’ 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

So it was frustrating not to be seeing it. Who Needs Sets or Fancy Costumes for These Mozart Operas? 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s been frustrating,” he acknowledged, though he added that he would continue writing even if his plays were never produced at all. Romulus Linney, Wide-Ranging Playwright, Dies at 80 2011-01-16T01:16:25Z

“The Fair Chase” can be frustrating at times. How Hunting Became a Macho Sport 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

"Those privileged, rich people — not to say they're all terrible — but there's a lot of people like those, and they get away with stuff, and it's really frustrating," he explained. “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, the poems, somewhat frustratingly, appear to backpedal. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

They are frustratingly independent and thrive at school. Motherlode Blog: How Can a Stay-at-Home Mom Get Back to Work? 2012-10-12T20:09:50Z

But even the most reliably delicious of ingredients has its flaws, and butternut squash, in particular, has a big one: peeling winter squash is beyond difficult — not to mention, frustrating. How to peel and cut butternut squash without losing a finger 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Another is the frustratingly lackadaisical treatment one can be subject to at Ivato International Airport in Antananarivo. Only in Madagascar 2010-12-20T09:00:32Z

Despite its best efforts, “Tanna” drifts into a mode of exoticism that renders it an ultimately frustrating experience. Review: In ‘Tanna,’ Lovers Are Torn Apart to Keep Tribal Peace 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

They offered a kaleidoscope of experiences, alternately hopeful and frustrating, inspiring and unnerving, sometimes even funny. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“Due to Sherman Island County Park rules, we weren’t able to offer lessons for a while, which was frustrating. It doesn’t really fulfill us to sell 20 $500 boards,” she said. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

But the show itself is often frustrating, facile — even a little embarrassing at times. Review: A Garden Idyll for Noguchi’s Stones and Steel 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Given the author’s obvious talent and the frequent brilliance of her prose, it’s frustrating to contemplate how much sharper this novel might have been with another round or two of editing. The Mysterious ‘Parking Lot Attendant’ at the Center of a Web of Intrigue 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s really frustrating because the censorship seems to vary,” they said, and has seemed to disproportionately affect queer communities and people of color. Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

As a much less frustrating and equally impressive alternative, consider the replica caves at Lascaux. What’s new in France for 2019 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

But the narrowness of his programming is a little frustrating. Pianist Wosner shows patience, maturity and virtuosity 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

The cliffhanger is a bit frustrating, but if you are a fan of palace intrigue and family drama, you will be thrilled to hear this is the first installment of a planned trilogy. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

“It can help prevent all sorts of medical conditions that are uncomfortable, embarrassing and frustrating,” says Mark Hyman, medical director at Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine. Can toilet attachments make bidets mainstream in the U.S.? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

“I knew it was a disaster. I couldn’t even learn, so it was so hard and so frustrating.” A Female Conductor Joins the Ranks of Top U.S. Orchestras 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The truth is that in the past censors could be just as frustrating, but films were judged on their own merits. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

Some of its loose ends are frustrating, and some of the answers are unsatisfying. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Western readers may find the allusions frustratingly indirect, but Kadare has accustomed himself to telling his tales slantwise, even in a post-totalitarian era where anything goes. Ismail Kadare Grapples With the Supernatural 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Salon: Is it frustrating for you in some ways that "Treme" is truly a long-form story -- it's ten, eleven, twelve hours, a novel really -- and you're doling it out in chapters? Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z

Despite the glorious singing heard in archival footage from various periods of her career, the film is frustratingly sketchy. Movie Review: ‘Mercedes Sosa,’ About a Voice for the Oppressed 2014-01-24T00:23:48Z

Elsewhere, on “RPG,” she and 6lack take aim at the roundly frustrating game of trying to ascertain a partner’s motives—even when that partner has given what’s been asked of him. The New R. & B. Is Here, Reflecting Confused Modern Love 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

So much of what I've read online about Asperger's matches up to our experiences, and it would explain so much that has been odd, hurtful and frustrating for me over these years of marriage. Perspective | Ask Amy: Sandwich issue brings Costanza to mind 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

Like money, sleep functions on a delicate web of trust, and Samantha Harvey’s often brilliant and sometimes frustrating new book anatomizes what happens when we stop believing. Review | Samantha Harvey’s ‘The Shapeless Unease’ delves into the quotidian torture of insomnia 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

That was the frustrating complexity of Jobs: He was a control freak who seemed to care deeply for the people around him, except when, suddenly, he didn’t. ‘Becoming Steve Jobs,’ by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

It was frustrating, with that in mind, how many times during the 80 minutes one wondered how much more engaging the London Philharmonic's sumptuous performance might have been given a small rearrangement of the stage. LPO/J?rvi ? review 2010-10-13T20:45:00Z

Yet from Tuesday to Saturday, over five largely sold-out nights at Carnegie Hall, he and his orchestra presented nothing more innovative than a Beethoven cycle — a strong, often breathtaking, ultimately frustrating one at that. Review: A Beethoven Cycle From Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

I won’t cut off the relationship, and can’t, but it’s been frustrating to watch as a mom — and frustrating as the driver. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to help a teenage daughter with a chaotic friend? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

So there’s nothing untoward about any of this — it’s just frustrating from an artistic point of view. Steve Martin's 'Meteor Shower' plunges into the absurd at the Old Globe 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Recordings of stage productions are frustrating by nature, pale relics of theater rather than theater itself. The Fourth Wall Is My Laptop Screen 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

And a central thread that runs though her book is ultimately frustrating. ‘Careless People’: the true story that inspired ‘Gatsby’ 2014-02-05T21:18:30Z

“That can be quite frustrating for some viewers,” he said, “that our characters are trying to find their place within the world, rather than to find a place separate from it.” ‘Vicious’ on PBS Follows Two Gay Characters 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

It’s difficult to tell whether Paisley believes that the impossibility of seeing further down the path not taken is soothing, or the single most frustrating part of being human, or both. Doug Paisley’s Winter Melancholy on “Starter Home” 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Poignant and captivating, the scene is also frustrating: It suggests how great the entire opera could have been. Review: John Adams Mines Gold Rush History for His New Opera 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

The most frustrating aspect of the booking process according to the study? Perspective | As airline revenue from extra fees increases, so does consumer ire 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

"I want to see this country and all the places ive dreamed of and whether its the paps or being pulled into politics its been frustrating," he said. Israeli PM's meeting with Bieber called off 2011-04-13T12:48:09Z

The feeling of going round in circles is familiar to us all, but it need not be frustrating. Readers recommend: songs about circles 2012-08-03T21:00:00Z

"If somebody is cast because they are a name but they're not right for the job, well, it's very frustrating." Hollywood stars at center of Broadway backlash 2011-05-30T01:47:50Z

For some composers and theorists this was frustratingly vague, and beginning in the 17th century came attempts to link musical time to the motion of a clock. Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Despite this frustrating meet cute, they eventually team up again to eat popcorn, discuss cocktail preferences and watch "This Is Us." We all love Wongers, who brings the real magic to the MCU 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

Your lack of recourse to justice is very frustrating. I am in emotional and financial freefall after my husband left me | Dear Mariella 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Most frustrating, however, was the inability to hear the choir, made up of members of the Downtown Voices and the Mama Foundation’s Wednesday Sings choirs. Review: ‘Harbored’ Spins Immigrants’ Tales, With Liberty in View 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

And while Azaria has played all kinds of stock characters on “The Simpsons” — brash Southerners, unctuous Brits, frustratingly polite Canadians — he said they were permissible in a way that Apu is not. Why Hank Azaria Won’t Play Apu on ‘The Simpsons’ Anymore 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The Emmy nominations came out last week and Insecure was frustratingly snubbed. Insecure's Jay Ellis: 'Every time I've been pulled over, I thought I was going to get killed' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

We see her in close-up on a screen downstage, her image frustratingly out of sync with the sound of her voice, which travels faster. ‘Out of Time’ Review: Once Sidelined, Now Taking Center Stage 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Topics: , , , , , It must be so frustrating to be a Catholic bishop right now. Is the Catholic church even trying to make sense on marriage equality? 2013-05-09T14:49:00Z

A crucial later scene also took place mostly mid-stage, which was frustrating. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Although I owe whatever success I've had to Four Weddings and a Funeral, it did become frustrating after a bit that people made two assumptions. Englishmen at 50 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z

She has embraced a frustrating and often unpopular cause. New film has Japan vets confessing to Nanjing rape 2010-03-31T14:16:00Z

Of course, like everyone in this show, they take one step forward and two or three very frustrating steps back. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The move from chef into food policy was a leap for Kass, who sometimes found the impasses between major food corporations and anti-obesity activists frustrating. Sam Kass, chef to the Obamas, is leaving the White House 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

In later episodes, Mr. Pink takes on litterbugs in New Orleans, the baggage-claim process at airports, the frustrating wait at a Florida motor-vehicles department and more. Hey, I’m Going 55. Cough Up the Cash. 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z

We seem to be under an archaic way of tracking ratings and it’s frustrating. Jim Rash On Co-Writing The Descendants and the Future of Community 2011-11-30T09:58:48Z

“After a meeting in the laundry room, he barged into my apartment demanding to see what I was making, and then a most unusual, hilarious, frustrating, kind, exacerbating, generous friendship began.” Charlie Finch, Caustic Chronicler of New York’s Art Scene, Dies at 69 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

Toppings/garnishes: I think drinking a whipped cream-topped beverage out of a mug is middling at best and frustrating at worst, so I omitted. Push the (hot chocolate) envelope this year with these delicious customizations 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

Every puzzle game walks a fine line between posing a challenge and frustrating players. Reviews: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Metrico, Hohokum and Road Not Taken 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t all a perfect joy; there were long, frustrating nights, endless arguments, hours of effort that led to nothing. For Novelist, a Magical Turn as a Record Producer 2011-04-24T06:15:05Z

Sure, it’s frustrating when Stewart avoids touchy topics, but perhaps there is method to his lack of madness. Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z

“It’s just so terribly frustrating that we weren’t able to come up with a better outcome for Geller I.” Marcel Breuer House Demolished on Long Island, Angering Preservationists 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

In “Augustown,” old and young people on the outskirts of Kingston find themselves in a curious and frustrating state of flux, without knowing that history is the cause. Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

On a more frustrating level, the structure is confusing, particularly in the beginning, and narrative propulsion is muddled by the scope and poetic repetition. The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s just so frustrating when you’re in a supporting role because you only get to express a part of yourself,” he said in a 1986 interview with The Los Angeles Times. Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Who Became a Star, Dies at 91 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

This is frustrating, though, if you don't want to drink that opened wine the very next day or if you don't have the chance, especially when the leftovers are of a great quality. How long does that open bottle of wine last, really? 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z

As frustrating as that may have been, he was much more upset by the racism that he confronted even at the height of his fame. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Rose, who has no means of support and whose background is left frustratingly vague, eventually moves in with the family. Movie Review | 'The Greatest': Sarandon and Brosnan as Grieving Parents 2010-04-01T22:17:00Z

Neilson might argue that frustrating our sense of an ending is the heart of his play, but he beats us over the head with it. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z

Its devices and developments — the guys returning as Graces, a periodic freezing under a work light to rearrange bodies like museum pieces — are static or recursive, perhaps intentionally frustrating. Review: Dance That Playfully Brings Art History to Life 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

But the only thing as frustrating and predictable as corporate silence is mainstream media and commentators making a political game show out of the existential fight for bodily autonomy. Cable news needs to stop treating abortion like political horse race 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

So it's a little frustrating when the plot idles instead of moving forward. When superstar and superfan collide: It's 'Future Thinking' at South Coast Rep 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

It’s like he’s so close, but something’s slightly off in that last decimal place…it’s frustrating. I Admit It: I Don’t Really Like Christopher Nolan’s Movies All That Much 2012-07-18T11:59:44Z

I find that way of thinking very frustrating. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

This is frustrating, because documentaries, usually, are vehicles that provide context—and for the topic of fomenting insurgency during the Iraq War, context would be extraordinarily useful. Michael Ware’s Iraq War doc doesn’t hold up: “Only The Dead See The End Of War” captures the horror and confusion, but skimps on analysis 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Kravitz, frustratingly sidelined in season 1, is particularly stunning in recent, revelatory episodes. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

But as a viewer, I find it slightly frustrating that there's just not enough time to watch everything. "I want to be like Betty White": Jacki Weaver on success after 60 and why ageism is "unimaginative" 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s frenetic, chaotic, often frustrating but never dull. La Paz, Bolivia guide: what to see plus the best bars, restaurants and hotels 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

And "The Honorable Woman" is great, in the most traditional sense of the word, which makes its flaws all the more frustrating. Sundance's 'The Honorable Woman' a brave foray into conflict 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating to have to continue to move, but that’s also what I love. Two Fashion Designers on Staying Inspired and Independent 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

And it can be especially frustrating if your job is what takes you out of town. Upgrade business travel with hotel hacks, proper tipping and the miracle of packing cubes 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

If we spend several episodes going around in circles, that can get frustrating. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Whether the book’s title is false advertising or self-sabotage, the result is frustrating to read. Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Yet the two-stock model persisted, in part because managers found it "frustratingly inconvenient" to incorporate such complexity into their equations, Pinchin writes. In bluefin tuna, fisheries science is never neat 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

This frustrating sense of missed opportunity, of mere comprehensiveness at the expense of depth, prevails over the book as a whole. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

“The Other Woman” is absorbing — at times moving — but also frustrating, relying as it does on slackly staged, overacted, two-person scenes punctuated by uninspired New York montages. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z

But she would much rather have played the scheming wife who double-crossed her husband, she told The New York Times in 1999, and not getting the part — Marie Windsor did — “was frustrating.” Coleen Gray, Who Played Film Noir Naïfs, Dies at 92 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

That is a frustrating misnomer for parents looking to put a door between themselves and their offspring. Practical Traveler: 7 Tips for an Easier Family Getaway 2012-06-13T16:15:30Z

A. It was upsetting, it was frustrating, it made me angry. Michael Rapaport speaks out: A Tribe Called Quest 2011-07-27T23:47:12Z

“The new date is ‘hanging out,’ ” said Denise Hewett, 24, an associate television producer in Manhattan, who is currently developing a show about this frustrating new romantic landscape. The End of Courtship? 2013-01-11T21:56:39Z

“But in Sarah’s play, Orpheus is a normal dude, a pretty immature one, and not super communicative — a frustrating boyfriend. I wanted to musicalize both his doubleness and that there’s something Eurydice can’t see.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Still, in too many cases, readers wanting to know the titles of an author’s key works will be left frustratingly in the dark. Review | ‘The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom’ beautifully demonstrates the evolution of a genre 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

But for millions of visitors, the museum could be a frustrating maze, circulation a fiasco. Wonder and Awe in Natural History’s New Wing. Butterflies, Too. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Squirrels across the country and beyond are frustrating homeowners as they deface carefully carved jack o’lanterns ahead of the spookiest night of the year. Squirrels are defacing, destroying jack o’lanterns, homeowners say 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

His research often seems a mite shaky, which can be frustrating, but that's partly the point – speculations and connections, truths and lies, the authentic and inauthentic sit cheek by jowl. The Contents of a House – review 2013-05-07T17:36:10Z

The paper trail of correspondence between you and Alitalia is frustrating. Alitalia promised to cover my lost luggage, but the check never arrived 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Those twin anxieties made it impossible to set the book down — I stayed up until 4 a.m. one night to finish reading it — and made its ending that much more frustrating. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Los Angeles Graffiti to Korean Art 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

“While it is fantastically imaginative, it is ultimately frustrating,” he said. 2010-01-30T05:20:00Z

It’s just so dismissive and frustrating and such an ignorant thing to call someone. Whitney Cummings: "Crazy" Is the "New C-Word" 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Fortunately this case will be re-opened in a few months, but its squandered potential is still frustrating. Review: Here's the true crime of Hulu's "Candy" 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

In ways that are fascinating, inspiring, frustrating and disappointing, “Piece of Work” feels like a work in progress. Review: The Virtuoso Sara Mearns Considers Other Virtuosities 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

But the film never shows him doing this — his role is frustratingly relegated to helpful bystander. In "Skin," a neo-Nazi turns from hate: Good intentions can't redeem this disaster of a film 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Here and there, in frustratingly truncated episodes of straight-up capoeira, and at the very end, there’s a sense that the dancers are about to cut loose, to break free, but they never do. Review: DanceBrazil Offers a Middle Passage Lesson at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

She also finds it frustrating to always be known as “‘the woman who survived harassment’. Anita Sarkeesian: ‘It’s frustrating to be known as the woman who survived #Gamergate’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

"Ticket to Paradise" has garnered mixed reviews, for its colonialism as well as its plot holes. RogerEbert.com calls it "frustratingly unexceptional." We need gender equality to make a rom-com work 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z

And that’s the most frustrating thing about this picture: There seems to be some nuance here—something that is possibly very meaningful to Ford—that just can’t break through the movie’s glassy surface. Review: Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals Looks Good But Says Too Little 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

A: Improper installation sometimes leads to gaps in flooring — just a cosmetic issue, albeit a frustrating one. A growing gap in a wood floor spells structural trouble 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

"I watched that happen and I watched how frustrating it was for him and I didn't enjoy it," he said. George Clooney for President? No Chance. 2011-10-06T06:31:05Z

She also finds the hypocrisy of crew compliance frustrating. Have You Satisfied Your Covid Compliance Officer? 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

He doesn't so much swerve a straight question – that would imply intent – as talk frustratingly around it. Jeff Goldblum: the Buddha of Hollywood 2010-07-12T20:30:00Z

But while it’s not novel, it’s worth noting quite how frustrating it is to be denied legitimate news. NBC Missed the Point of the Olympics Opening Ceremony 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

The rest of its self-titled debut is an earthier set of fables about lost loves and frustrating careers, anchored in feathery guitars that turn torrid in a flash. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T22:54:15Z

That devotion made the silent decade that followed particularly frustrating. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

So, Pescaia says, it’s frustrating when visitors move rocks or kick them over, exposing the seedlings of rare and endangered species such as the Haleakala silversword. Out hiking? Here’s why you should leave those stones unstacked and those stacks untouched. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

“We appreciate that this was an exhausting and frustrating experience for our customers, and we have apologised for the long delay to their flight,” the statement said. Flight that left over 200 passengers sleeping on the airport floor lands 3 days after schedule 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

That's also frustrating to acknowledge, given Eichner's care with and emphasis on featuring a cast of queer actors deserving a brighter spotlight than most have been given. The promotion for "Bros" was botched. But its ordinary rom-com trappings may also be to blame 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Yet if the arguments are sometimes frustrating, the book is a page-turner with astute accounts of Bach’s life folded in. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z

For some, I imagine, this would be a disconcerting, frustrating experience, but I quickly got used to this linguistic interzone. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z

It’s a bit like being nudged by a bully, again and again, frustrating at the least, disheartening at the most. In Transit Blog: Cycling Through North Dakota: Perseverence Required 2011-09-01T17:57:45Z

Pascal grants Javier a tangible earnestness and common grit Holbrook’s cowboy lacks, immediately making him a more captivating guide into this frustrating territory. "Narcos" returns with a fresh approach and a season steeped in violent paranoia 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Mona has her own problems, among them a frustrating search for love with internet dates who turn out to be deceitful cads. Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ Takes Teenage Movies to a Higher Place 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Well, it’s a little frustrating when my family comes over from Arizona, because we would all sing together. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

The other is more involved, and also more frustrating. ‘Frontline’ Review: Why the Climate Changed but We Didn’t 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

His work is a fascinating, frustrating thorn in the side of the modernist ideal of wholeness. When He Was Good, He Was Breathtaking 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

But even if it's frustrating to read such a book, it's even more disappointing when the title fails to deliver on its promise. 'Extra 2%' doesn't deliver on Wall Street promise 2011-03-28T11:38:08Z

Unconvincing in the extreme, she adds nothing of interest and succeeds only in drawing attention away from Claire, an already frustratingly diffuse character. Review: A Husband Vanishes in ‘Claire in Motion.’ Mysteries Multiply. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

This open-ended approach can be frustrating at times, like a brew of metaphysical musings, Dollar Store Antonioni and barren “Slackers,” but the film does have an unsettling vibe under its sunny exterior. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

It gets more frustrating when Mr. Cohan talks to Mr. Nifong in the former prosecutor’s first interview since he was disbarred for misconduct. Books of The Times: ‘The Price of Silence’ Replays a Wrenching Campus Episode 2014-04-06T21:03:03Z

Ms. Reed has taken on a vital story in “Dark Money,” which is why it’s frustrating that her storytelling isn’t better. Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

My difficult, inscrutable, frustrating mother, who long ago cut herself off from the rest of the family and refused to speak to any of us, now barely can speak at all. I can't wait to not do Thanksgiving 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Yet here, the script dictated, which was sometimes frustrating, she says. ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Moviestore/Rex Features For fans eager to get the first critical verdict on 's return to Middle-earth after premiered in Wellington on Wednesday night, it has been a frustrating couple of days. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – the wait for reviews begins 2012-11-30T12:05:54Z

But a good agent can prove a frustrating protagonist; a spy may require a second spy to make her spill her secrets. A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Is it frustrating to see these political issues get in the way of our ability to think clearly about these questions? "I never set out to be a whistleblower": Katharine Gun tells the true story of "Official Secrets" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

For ballet dancers, the rank of soloist can be frustrating: In recent years, Ms. Teuscher’s biggest fear was that she would grow stagnant as she had seen others do. Devon Teuscher, a Poet in Ballet Shoes, Takes On ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating to be bad at something that seems so simple. 'It seems so simple': can I cut it at the World Stone Skimming Championships? 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Watching a 38-year-old cyclist crush the field while being referred to using a diminutive is frustrating, to say the least. The Olympics’ delicate gender politics 2012-08-11T16:00:00Z

Younger players are likely to be attracted to the colorful graphics and cute monsters, but beware: On the normal difficulty setting, some of these battles are quite challenging, and kids may find them frustrating. Review: 'Ni no Kuni' an epic adventure with charm 2013-01-31T13:50:11Z

The mystery and idiosyncrasy of autism can be frustrating, but it is also a visceral reminder that none of us knows what lies ahead and that compassion is the most powerful weapon against anxiety. How the hardest year of my life ended my catastrophic thinking 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

Yet it was frustrating not to see on the human body these striking dresses in strong and soft colors, from orange and turquoise through melon and pistachio. Special Report: Fashion: Pitti Immagine: All-American 2011-06-17T11:01:16Z

The production was a frustrating mix of inventive and half-baked thinking. Music Review: An Unsteady ‘Rigoletto’ Rat Pack 2013-01-29T13:33:55Z

He’s frustratingly cavalier about how his behavior might come back to haunt him: “Someday you’ll learn your lesson, maybe eight girls have said to me. But most of them got naked.” Daniel Handler's new novel 'All the Dirty Parts' is raunchy, original and real 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Almost 20 years ago, a new company came on the scene promising to revolutionize the tedious and often frustrating chore of securing a restaurant reservation. OpenTable Began a Revolution. Now It’s a Power Under Siege. 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

"It's very frustrating that doctors cannot find out what is going on." Dick Van Dyke cancels NY appearance 2013-04-19T09:02:13Z

Road to Glory is especially frustrating, because of how easy it is to create a player who instantly becomes the best prospect in the nation. Game On: 'Child of Eden' ... 'NCAA Football 12' 2011-07-20T18:54:49Z

“At a time when you’re trying to get more people interested in opera and attending your performances, it’s incredibly frustrating,” Gelb said. Met Opera, Reeling From Cyberattack, Will Sell Tickets on New Site 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

I found it frustrating to not be able to search by Zip code on the website, and when I needed to reset my password, the process took three hours. Hipcamp, Tentrr and the Dyrt: Trying out camping’s newest start-ups 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

It seemed frustrating at the house of Vionnet that a designer who started his revival of the house two years ago by folding geometrically printed squares should have abandoned his visionary idea. Fashion Review: Bill Gaytten at Dior Shows a Light Touch 2011-09-30T18:29:29Z

Then – frustratingly just after this whole piece had gone to press – Affleck finally cracks and confirms to the world that the film is a spoof. Hoax! 2010-09-17T23:03:00Z

The world watched those demons play out in personal and professional affairs that were frustrating, toxic and, ultimately, devastating. Coming to Terms With the Legacy of Rick James 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Issa’s and Molly’s conundrums are ones that all women deal with; the first couple of episodes in particular demonstrate how frustrating and potentially dangerous it can be when a woman’s desire isn’t taken seriously. Smart Watch: “Insecure,” “Disenchantment,” and more top TV picks for this week 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

She also points out that her floor at the Whitney opens with a photograph of Barack Obama by African American photographer Dawoud Bey — a frustrating response. Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

And the action, which is almost entirely described rather than enacted, can feel frustratingly opaque. ‘Will You Come With Me?’ Review: Love in the Age of Revolution 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

While the suspense and power of her story come through, the film can be clunkily expository and, with regard to tensions between Sara and Pavlo, frustratingly vague. ‘My Name Is Sara’ Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

“It’s a trend none of us want to get involved with. It’s become a circus. It’s frustrating.” Cider Moves Beyond the Apple 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Achache somehow connects them to the long, frustrating process of rebuilding a life when the world you had imagined with someone collapses. Review: In ‘With No Fanfare,’ Things Fall Apart 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

What's frustrating – and it's both a blessing and a curse – is that if you are well known, your shows get publicised, which is great. Simon Cowell vows to change 'every aspect' of X Factor after falling ratings 2013-04-08T23:01:03Z

The most frustrating thing is that I want to always buy the best thing, the thing that does the most stuff. Jerry Zucker: I'd get a kick out of owning a Virgin Galactic plane 2010-12-10T15:28:00Z

Speaking of shaky, Barney George’s set design — which includes a stage-length vert ramp seemingly borrowed from a skate park and jagged rectangular panels lined up along the back wall — is frustratingly ambiguous. Review: ‘The Kite Runner’ Trips From Page to Stage 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating to watch the prosecution fight for a conviction knowing that the jury is going to vote for O.J.’s acquittal. ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ Finale: Still Not Guilty 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

The play’s single-mindedness is frustrating: You find yourself wondering what else makes this guy tick, and, clearly, that occurred to Richmond and Peakes as well. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

“This is a somewhat frustrating time cycle for me, in the sense that I rarely work anymore,” he said. The Tri-Centric Festival Honors Anthony Braxton 2011-10-04T21:19:10Z

“Mother” is a curious film, alternately dazzling and frustrating. Movie Review | 'Mother': Bong Joon-ho?s Fierce Love: Better Not Make This Mom Angry 2010-03-12T00:04:00Z

So it’s frustrating that design, of all things, gets in the way of this production, presented in association with the Castillo Theater. Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ in Yiddish 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

He is so good at asking what constitutes a city that his own lack of travel to L.A.'s less well-documented corners becomes frustrating. 'Sidewalking' author David Ulin jumps feet first into trying to understand Los Angeles 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Making a Murderer” excels in uncovering the frustrating, warped details. What’s missing from “Making a Murderer”: How the riveting documentary’s flaws actually fuel its popularity 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Other expats find the omnipresence of Berlin’s past more frustrating than inspiring. So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

This can be frustrating, especially for nonballetomanes who might need a little help, but it is finally a price worth paying for the access provided. 'Ballet 422' shows the creative process on a tight deadline 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

At worst, it’s a frustrating cliché, hostile to narrative and eyeballs, that substitutes fog for feeling. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

As frustrating as intrusive questions may be, boiling over doesn’t help your children. A lesbian mom asks: How do I react when strangers ask questions about our kids?

Yet the precise nature of Ms. Rabot-Pinson’s job remains frustratingly unclear. Movie Review: ‘La Maison de la Radio,’ by Nicolas Philibert 2013-09-03T20:09:03Z

B ut it’s frustrating to watch them in “danger” that quickly sees them borne away safely. What 'Game of Thrones' Needs to Do in Its Season Finale 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

When he later went to Harrow he was given proper tuition but by then had learned so many bad habits he found it frustrating. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

We think it would be sort of enormously both presumptuous and frustrating for the audience to have someone say, “No, what you think is wrong because this is what Damon and Carlton said.” Television: The Men Who Made ABC?s ?Lost? Last 2010-05-14T01:15:00Z

Brain cancer is now the deadliest childhood cancer in the US, now ahead of leukemia, a result of improved leukemia treatment and a frustrating lack of progress on brain cancer. Brain cancer now deadlier among US children than leukemia 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

"It's very frustrating. It's what the fans wanted, it's what the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wanted, and it's not gonna happen," he said. Kiss pull out of induction concert 2014-02-25T17:43:32Z

He turned down the request, but then felt compelled to write a blog post about his brief, frustrating time with Whole Foods. Whole Foods has high standards for produce. So why does it let coffee get stale? 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

In the first half, her characters sing of revenge, fear and the frustrating battles fought inside troubled minds. CD reviews: Joyce DiDonato looks at war, peace and the Baroque 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

That question haunts the 79-minute documentary “The Kill Team,” which looks at the murders and their aftermath through a frustratingly narrow lens. ‘The Kill Team’ Documentary Examines a War Crime 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Democracy--especially a republic--may be inefficient and frustrating but it is specifically designed that way as a means of stopping dictators. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

True to this Biennale’s frustratingly muted politics, no curatorial statement appears, acknowledging these issues. Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See? 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating not being able to rush up and down between the stage and the front of house,” he said. Inside Christopher Wheeldon’s Working-Class ‘Nutcracker’ 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

A typewriter, on the other hand, is a symbol of a more thoughtful -- and often more frustrating -- way of life. Kids books get whimsical with lonely typewriters and wild inventions 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

This highly conceptual, cerebral approach is rich but occasionally frustrating as it carries nested within it the potential to stir pity and rage. Valeria Luiselli Traces the Youngest Casualties of the Border Crisis 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

In New York, the transition from winter to spring can frustratingly slow. 21 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

The trajectory, like the overall recovery, was frustrating and erratic. Rediscovering Wine After Covid-19 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Still, it’s frustrating when dance is solving problems someone should have addressed. Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

So, as frustrating as this situation is, there is not much you can do about these separations. Her granddaughter is suffering from her parents’ divorce. She wants to help. 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

It's a frustrating and upsetting situation for him. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A spouse’s silence is the opposite of supportive 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

You dismiss the notification and get on with your day, but the app keeps showing up – never enough to prompt you to action, but frustrating all the same. The digital spring clean: how to sort out your passwords, privacy and bulging photo folder 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

To add to the sense of frustrating vagueness, the Apple trailers site offers little in the way of an explanation. Is Super 8 leaving it too late? 2011-02-10T10:52:00Z

The phenomenon now known as overtourism is frustrating everybody: visitors, host institutions and host countries, said Marina Novelli, a professor of tourism at the University of Brighton in England. Want to See the Mona Lisa? Get in Line 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

“It’s been frustrating not to open,” he said, adding, “It’s time to try; people want something new.” A New Spot for Basque Dishes to Go Opens in the SoHo 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

The most important, most difficult, most fundamentally frustrating thing is this: you simply need to accept that this is your reality, and move forward from there. How I learned to cope with chronic pain 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“But I’m trying to be an example so other entrepreneurs can say we can do business, too, instead of being left out of the conversation — which feels doubly frustrating when you can speak two languages.” Chocobar Cortés, a Beloved Restaurant From San Juan, Heads for the Bronx 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

In Anna Moench’s promising, frustrating “In Quietness,” produced by Dutch Kills at Walkerspace, a high-flying consultant leaves her job, her friends and her urban life to follow her husband to a seminary. Review: In ‘In Quietness,’ a High-Powered Wife Makes Sacrifices for Her Husband’s Religious Zeal 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Shelley’s buoyancy is frustratingly naïve, and often completely foolish if you have any understanding of how brutal living in America actually is, but you root for Shelley in part because Shelley is rooting for Shelley. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The debate about how to resolve our nation’s housing crisis is stuck in a frustrating rut. Why we need social housing in the US | Matt Bruenig 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

I’m sure that was very frustrating for Sam at times, but he was good about it. ‘1917’ and the Challenge of Making a Film Look Like a Single Shot 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z

Through them we get a sense of how frustrating the times are, how dark, how sad. Gillian Laub’s Divided House Is Still Standing. What About Yours? 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Especially frustrating was the summer, when live performance began to return in Europe while remaining almost entirely absent from the United States. The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

The film’s most tantalizing, frustrating elements are scenes of Dylan and the group in rehearsal, which are all too brief. “Rolling Thunder Revue,” Reviewed: Martin Scorsese’s Slippery Chronicle of Bob Dylan in Concert 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is a Terry Gilliam movie without the kinks, a Matrix without the narrative propulsion, a time-and-space oddity that remains frustratingly earthbound. Cloud Atlas: The Wachowskis Struggle in the Stratosphere 2012-10-25T12:00:33Z

But the film, frustratingly, stays on the surface, settling for easy emotional moments: crosscuts between Judy and Luis talking about family; the two of them gazing up at Fourth of July fireworks. ‘Five Years North’ Review: Opposite Sides of Immigration 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“The whole process of reviews on Amazon can be really frustrating,” said Ms. Greer. The Secret Life of Amazon’s Vine Reviewers 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

Navigating these fluid rules can be frustrating, but Idowu enjoys the challenge. The delicious, diverse world of spirits from the African continent 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

The focus was on awards and the frustrating, infuriating homogeneity of American movies. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Tickets had been on sale since spring promoting a “secret location” to be announced, but the scheduled September opening date came and went without a peep, frustrating many ticket holders. Seattle’s immersive Van Gogh show is finally open. Does it live up to the hype? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Scott wrote in his review for The Times, “is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating hybrid, a film that tries both to transcend and to exploit its genre.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Resistance’ and ‘Finding Your Roots’ 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Intermittently beautiful but frustratingly leaden, “Shutterbug” labors ineffectually to promote authenticity over artifice. Movie Review | 'Shutterbug': Photographer, Camera, Subjects 2010-03-19T04:02:00Z

Where POI gets interesting–if teasingly, frustratingly so–is in the way it treats the surveillance system that the premised is based on. You Are Watching Big Brother: The Disturbing Spy Games of Person of Interest 2011-10-27T15:32:58Z

“The Breathe Suite” was released on CD last year, but received frustratingly scant attention. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon Where Voices Lead the Way to Resistance and Renewal 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

But it must be a little frustrating to be docked points because your chin is too low. Dancing with the Stars Watch: It’s A Pants-Off Dance-Off 2013-04-30T09:45:40Z

A lot of work went into making the experience kids-friendly to avoid frustrating or confusing young users. DreamWorks rolls out "Kung Fu Panda" virtual world 2010-04-12T07:33:00Z

She loved acting in Steve Martin’s play “Meteor Shower” on Broadway, for instance, but said it was frustrating to go onstage and not be able to respond to the news. Amy Schumer Doesn’t Care What You Think (That Much) 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

But watching Friday’s Rio Opening Ceremonies, on the U.S.’s West Coast, was a deeply frustrating experience. NBC Missed the Point of the Olympics Opening Ceremony 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the same interview, Mirren later acknowledged that it can be "frustrating" for a gay actor "to see a straight actor giving . . . a fake, simplistic sort of performance." Helen Mirren defends herself from Golda Meir casting backlash, while acknowledging, "I'm not Jewish" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

This was a perfect episode to illustrate why this series is both entertaining and frustrating to watch for me. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

The result is very pleasing to read, when it isn’t frustratingly glib, which I regret to report is too often. A Personal, Breezy Tour of Classic Children’s Books 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

It was frustrating because, like constantly being asked about the nudity in Love and Other Drugs, it kept the conversation at the surface. Anne Hathaway: 'I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them' 2010-12-26T00:05:06Z

What really registers is how frustrating Krisha’s erratic, furtive behavior would be if she were part of your family—and how deeply sympathetic she is because, thankfully, she is not. Review: Indie Drama Krisha Maps a Wanderer's Return to the Family Fold 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Though it is expertly made, with evident commitment and passion and art behind and before the camera, I also found it on the whole frustrating and unsatisfying. Artful 'Leftovers' on HBO leaves viewers wanting more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

I found it more frustrating than fun, but parts have stayed in my head and made me think far more than I thought they would. Tips, links and suggestions: Our review list and what you are reading 2012-06-19T16:30:00Z

“It is just frustrating that Herman Cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants, and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement,” Bennett told the Post. Herman Cain accuser wants to talk: lawyer 2011-11-01T23:52:00Z

In recent years, getting into Diamond Head has been a frustrating experience for tourists. In Hawaii, Reimagining Tourism for a Post-Pandemic World 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

But art school emphasized critical theory, which Mr. Leckey found frustrating. Mark Leckey, No Longer Art’s Wunderkind, Is Now Its Wizard 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

And he prompts her to discuss her own past—her frustrating childhood, her thwarted dreams, her peregrinations in adulthood through a life from which, to this day, she feels somehow distant. “Cutting My Mom,” Reviewed: A Filmmaker’s Ingenious Web Series, Made in Collaboration With His Mother 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Building your own digital library of opera on video is more frustrating. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

But the play remains frustratingly cryptic and emotionally unaffecting. Theater Review: ‘Tiny Dynamite’ by Abi Morgan at 59E59 Theaters 2012-06-14T21:05:36Z

But I still find the semi-autobiographical callbacks frustrating and, more important, not really fun, or humorous, to watch. 'Girls' Recap: The Line Between Hannah Horvath and Lena Dunham Gets Blurry 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

The movie has a tough time handling this quiet, and even when Hudson takes over, the character remains frustratingly vague. ‘Respect’ Review: Giving a Queen Her Propers 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

After weeks of research, in which I asked both travelers and travel industry organizations if they could share their stories of how an ethics statement benefited customers, I drew a frustrating blank. Why the travel industry’s ethics matter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

If this sounds like frustrating, self-defeating behaviour, it's because we're frustrating, self-defeating people. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

The program opened with a beautifully played but interpretively frustrating account of Bartok’s “Contrasts.” Music Review: Students Seeking Meaning Crack the Shell of Technique 2011-01-11T23:33:20Z

And there’s something frustratingly elliptical about this plot, as though pages may have fallen out on the way to the binder. Review | Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Arrest’ imagines a kinder, gentler apocalypse 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

On the bad days—and this had been one of them—our work was frustrating for both of us. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z

Hurling boulders and cars – notionally among the coolest things the game lets you do – is frustrating, imprecise and fiddly. Game on: Inversion – preview 2012-07-05T21:01:01Z

However, a confused and frustrating search for an identity through this bizarre process is detectable. How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

In a field where there is a frustrating scarcity of female choreographers, one wishes there were better news to report. Review: Ballet West Offers an Eclectic Mix at the Joyce 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

He demonstrates an admirable impatience with the arcs and beats that dominate even independent-minded screenwriting, and shows a sometimes frustrating, sometimes bracing indifference to psychological continuity. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Though these narrative uncertainties evoke the unsettling pervasiveness of menace underpinning everyday life in the region, the effect is often frustrating. In the West Bank, Violence Begets More Violence 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

As frustrating as this can be, it has created moments of incredible light and education. Laurie Halse Anderson on writing "outside of your lane": "Be prepared to do years of extra work" 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

“I kept having setbacks. It was a very frustrating process — just the challenges of trying to keep yourself motivated.” Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

Critics and viewers alike found this season of the Netflix show at times thrilling, and at other times, a very frustrating watch. How to fix "Stranger Things" for its fifth and final season 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

So it must be especially frustrating for him to see illegal recordings of his performances end up of the Web. Music Review: Cyprien Katsaris at the International Keyboard Festival 2012-07-17T22:20:52Z

"It does get frustrating if I have to read about 10 use-by dates," Jonathan says. What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

At the same time, it isn’t especially well directed or incisively written, and its ending is frustratingly vague. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Broadway, too, seemed increasingly drawn to blockbuster musicals rather than serious drama, further marginalizing Penn. "It was frustrating and more than a little humiliating," Penn told The New York Times. Arthur Penn, director of 'Bonnie and Clyde' dies 2010-09-29T16:16:00Z

Movement and pulse are ingredients missing from some avant-garde music, whose arbitrary array of sounds can seem frustratingly static. Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z

In any case, the most frustrating thing about the constant flow of moralising about women and drink is how one-sided it is. 'Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Servers can be appealingly louche or frustratingly put upon. The Best Comes in a Bun at Salvation Burger and Spotted Pig 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

Some may find the play’s form frustrating; I found it beautiful and affecting, like flipping through a friend’s photo album in no particular order, finding some faces familiar, others unexpected. Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Traces a Woman’s Evolution in Phases and Fragments 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

After a frustrating few years during which various male stars were sent the script and didn’t respond, I had an epiphany while watching Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock. 'Peep Show with female losers? Bring it on!' – Sam Bain on why comedy needs diversity 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

Much of the hour is spent establishing the characters, which may be necessary for children unfamiliar with the Schulz universe but will be frustrating for their parents. Television Review: ?Jingle All the Way,? ?The Elf on the Shelf,? and More Christmas Cartoons - Television Review 2011-11-23T15:46:02Z

The most requested, coveted snacks must be pink, and because I try to keep food dyes to a minimum, my selections are frustratingly limited. Perspective | This strawberry almond milk is reminiscent of a milkshake, and deceptively nutritious 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

The frustrating thing was they started carrying me out — Andrea Mitchell remembers what it was like being carried out of a news conference 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

It presents creative challenges and content challenges that any thinking person and grown-up would find very challenging and frustrating. Michael Chiklis' superhero series targets families 2010-09-22T12:28:00Z

With so much on the line, the Undecideds have become more mystifying — and frustrating — than ever. In a year of political anger, undecided voters inspire a special kind of scorn 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Instead, he circles the mystery, leaving a frustrating void at the center of his would-be thriller. 'In the Name of My Daughter' a frustrating, would-be thriller 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

At times Selin is cripplingly self-aware and at others frustratingly obtuse. Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

At its weakest, Phillips says, "'Fury' contributes a frustrating percentage of tin to go with the iron and steel." 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Just compassionately listen to how frustrating parenting is right now. Perspective | My husband’s at home with 3 boys, and coronavirus cabin fever is setting in. How can I help? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

It was frustrating, but I really wanted to make the film. Rashida Jones Writes a New Part for Herself 2012-08-01T15:19:07Z

"It was a kind of frustrating paranoia," said a journalist who held a mid-ranking job at the paper at the time. AP Enterprise: UK tabloid paid spies for scoops 2011-09-28T12:10:09Z

Coupled with Naz's knuckle tattoos, the show has made some very frustrating decisions lately. ‘The Night Of’ Season 1, Episode 6: The Cat or the Yarn? 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

It was almost frustrating to hear him conduct Mr. Currier’s vibrant piece with such command. Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra Delivers Electric ‘Elektra’ 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Bowie was an inspirational figure and also a frustrating one, who spent his entire career either a step ahead of the rest of the culture or deliberately out of step with it. Rebel, alien, cynic, dreamer: David Bowie’s chimerical genius, and cultural importance, go way beyond pop music 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

It's a huge record, so it's really frustrating. Guetta goes global 2010-06-01T15:00:00Z

Even so, while Mr. Moshé’s ambitions can be frustratingly modest, he does know that — however fraudulent the genre’s myths — the image of a man riding a horse into the sunset is in our cinematic DNA. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The experience of turning its pages and pointing the wand is compelling, but interactions are simplistic and occasionally frustrating. Wonderbook: Book of Spells – review 2012-11-17T00:05:32Z

Given Oguike's past form, it's frustrating that the most typical of his three new works is the least effective. Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-09T18:44:00Z

“Art Addict” can at times be a frustrating film—relying too heavily on white-guy art figures puffily mansplaining her behavior and motives—exposing the fact that as a serious female collector she had few contemporaries. Before Amy Schumer and her “160 pounds and can catch a d*ck” swagger, we had this amazing sex-positive feminist role model 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s been frustrating and painful for me and my family to have to endure false accusations and watch people rush to judgment,” Dr. Luke said in a statement. Kesha Finds Sympathy, and Setbacks, in Her Fight With Dr. Luke 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The frustrating part is that "Jeen-Yus" never sufficiently illuminates the path that led us here. If "Jeen-Yus" is in the eye of the beholder, this film doesn't adequately explain Kanye West's 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

“It may be frustrating, but it’s closer to the truth.” Who Was Moe Berg? A Spy, a Big-League Catcher and an Enigma 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

“But as terrifying and frustrating as it is, I really am having the time of my life,” he added. Onstage, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Is Still a Tragedy 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

That Mr. Gatti missed the opportunity to be adventurous during this visit was doubly frustrating since these programs were both relatively short. Review: Concertgebouw Orchestra Shows Off Its Legacy at Carnegie 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

I want to let Segel’s performance during our interview speak for itself, as does his performance in this thorny, talky, frustrating and intriguing film. Jason Segel on playing David Foster Wallace: “I’m starting to think the things we’ve been told will make us feel good are a lie” 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

And in a response that had become frustratingly familiar since she shaved her head, the officer clocked her as a cancer patient and waved her on. At Home With Sheila Bridges: Weeding Out the Riffraff 2013-07-17T23:00:39Z

Is there anything more frustrating than being 11? In-Betweens: 2 Middle Grade Novels About the Costs and Benefits of Being 11 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her character Carrie Bradshaw’s refusal—at times principled, at times frustratingly flighty—to settle in the face of several comfortable options was a television milestone. Sarah Jessica Parker Is Turning 50, and She's More Interesting Than Ever 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

Yet judged solely as a film, the result is frustrating. Review: ‘1915,’ a Ghostly Evocation of Bygone Slaughter 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

And while the dialogue can have a sharp back and forth, “Freed” is a bit long-winded and, at times, frustratingly abstract. | 'Freed': In ?Freed,? Being the First, Expectations Attached 2010-06-21T22:40:00Z

The road remains — like the Pan-American ideal — frustratingly snapped in the middle. The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

He's hugely famous in Italy, but frustratingly very little has been translated. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

All that Baker, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Flick,” makes clear in this by turns tantalizing and frustrating work is that they are in the business of spinning yarns. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

But to reiterate, my sincerest apologies – I could see it was frustrating for an awful lot of you. Readers recommend: Songs with indecipherable lyrics 2010-05-06T23:01:00Z

As it sometimes is on the harder questions, the documentary tends to be frustratingly vague on Flora’s origins, though the Web site for Mr. Balding’s circus, circusflora.org, states that she was orphaned by ivory poachers. Movie Review: The Trick an Animal Cannot Learn: How to Be Wild Again 2011-06-07T22:16:55Z

Other decisions regarding which awards to telecast and which to consign to commercial-break recaps were frustrating, even if they accorded with past Tonys practice. Critic’s Notebook: The Tonys Show Celebrates the Stage Without Any Real Theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Even more frustrating, when a woman declines to help a colleague, she often receives less favourable reviews and fewer rewards. Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg – extract 2013-03-15T20:01:02Z

He assigns monumental importance to the “Republic of Letters” but offers frustratingly little detail on how it actually worked. The role of ideas in the “great divergence” 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

In his award acceptance speech, Brady said that he found learning to tune very difficult and frustrating at times. Piano technician in tune with industry award 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

And this is particularly noticeable in “Judgment Day,” when the passions of protesters run white hot and most of the politicians deciding their fates come across as frustratingly unconcerned and out of town. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

It was very frustrating for me to not be able to tell this story without looking like I was going to just be piling on the obvious. Emilio Estevez on making "The Public," a film about dignity, homelessness and libraries 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

The pity-these-poor-spouses tone of “Prison Wives” is so often at odds with the dysfunctional nature of the relationships depicted that watching it becomes frustrating. 2010-02-12T23:17:00Z

“It’s a little bit of a brain tease, but it’s never frustrating,” he said. When It Comes to Wordle Strategies, It’s Personal 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

Instead, he frustratingly shrugs his shoulders: “Who knows?” Review | In a new book, an insider offers a firsthand look at the Beatles. Here are a few takeaways. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

I believe that the work of gradually improving public policy is boring and frustrating and crucially important. ‪Kanye West for President 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

I sense he finds me frustrating to fully understand. I’m in ‘Spotlight’, but it’s not really about me. It’s about the power of journalism. 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

Even when Billy and Karin become lovers in 1938, she remains distant both to Billy and to the reader — not so much fascinatingly unknowable as frustratingly unknown. ‘Carry Me’ review: Life and love in harrowing wartime Europe spring to life 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

For the next week, things got progressively less painful though steadily more uncomfortable, boring and frustrating. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

She tells me that she thought it would be useful as she found it impossible to keep a heavy book open to read when feeding "and it was SO frustrating". Can you carry on reading with a pram in the hall? 2010-10-01T08:21:00Z

As origin stories go, this one is satisfyingly precise and frustratingly incomplete. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

“They were so frustrating. I hated them. A father and son in a repetition battle — it’s actually crazy to think of that.” How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Dance Festival, now in its sixth year, is frustratingly exhaustive, the kind of event that is overrun with too many mixed bills. Dance Review: Under the Milky Way, in Suspended Reality 2011-06-06T21:37:28Z

The result of this technique is that Raulff’s text is somehow dreamy but not sentimental; labyrinthine but not frustrating. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

It’s been a slow, often frustratingly bureaucratic process. We want Robert E. Lee’s name off our school — and in return, we were greeted with hateful Internet trolling 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

His time in a fictional Canadian Parliament led to the White House in “The Forbin Project” and an often frustrating period in Los Angeles. Gordon Pinsent, Actor Known for Playing Twinkle-Eyed Rogues, Dies at 92 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z

This “Appomattox,” in a respectful staging by Tazewell Thompson with clean, efficient sets by Donald Eastman, is a frustratingly uneven work that presents well-known historical facts on a conveyor belt of forgettable music. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

For me, the streaming quality — I rented Beth Gill’s “Electric Midwife” — was frustratingly choppy. Movement That Streams 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

For all sorts of reasons, the pool of female comic talent tends to be frustratingly small. This week's new live comedy 2013-06-08T05:00:14Z

While some of the acting is uneven and the script grinds to a frustrating finish, Henderson shows a rare command of mood on what probably was a shoestring budget. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

“The public and the media need to note this is a highly stressful and frustrating time for Mr Rush and his family, especially when there are no details concerning the ‘inappropriate behaviour’.” Geoffrey Rush denies allegations of 'inappropriate behaviour' in play 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Both frustrating and funny at the same time. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

He admits he found the expectations of fans daunting and the collaborative way of working "fascinating, frustrating and very time-consuming". The Alan Partridge film gamble 2013-08-07T07:24:12Z

“Choreography for Blackboards” remained as gently — and finally frustratingly — unobtrusive. Dance Review: ?Choreography for Blackboards? at Invisible Dog - Review 2012-01-10T23:15:24Z

It is a little bit frustrating to finish a book and still feel like there's a piece you don't understand, and Maria is the piece I don't understand. "It was damning": Brian Stelter excavates Fox News' culture, the Big Lie and Tucker Carlson's exit 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z

Even when you disagreed with August, he was entertaining and gracious company, and, gradually, he became more open during our chats — about, among other frequent topics, his frustrating Hollywood adventures over “Fences.” August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

"It's frustrating," Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who pleaded for Secretary Sonny Perdue to help the state's farmers nearly a month ago, told the outlet. Trump’s Agriculture Department let millions of pounds of food rot as food banks begged for donations 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

This is precisely why the dramedy Trump is constructing around his diagnosis is dangerous, frustrating and farcical in equal measure. Science and karma: Late night comedy makes peace with joking about Trump's COVID diagnosis 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

The representational disappointments of "Impeachment" are especially frustrating, considering how much the show gets right. "Impeachment" portraying Linda Tripp by an actress in a fat suit undermines the series' strengths 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Was there ever a period when it became frustrating, that association all the time. Lynda Carter: Wonder Woman for the ages 2011-02-17T21:54:00Z

This character’s most impressive — and sometimes frustrating — power is even simpler: a steadfast dedication to being radically different. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Damnation’ and ‘The Long Road Home’ 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

"It's a little frustrating," Vampire Weekend admitted last week, after news broke of Kennis's claims. Vampire Weekend: Contra lawsuit is 'frustrating' 2010-07-20T11:16:00Z

“Thinking about how the musicians have described learning their part for this — it was probably frustrating and thrilling,” she says. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Life After Beth, a frustrating affair due to its waste of resources, feels rushed and under-rehearsed. Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

It's been a frustrating dynamic in the past — Jay-Z was the most nominated artist last year and didn't take home a single statue. Can the Grammys bounce back from disaster? 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

One of the most frustrating things about getting older, he says, is how out of touch he feels. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Then, frustratingly, we returned to the jungle again. Adventures in unspoiled Vanuatu, the islands of highs and lows

It may be hard to find your soft heart for her, and it may be tiring, overwhelming and frustrating. Middle child is a pain. She doesn’t have to be. 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Donald Moffett first gained renown as an artist in the 1980s, when he was responding to a crisis that was frustrating researchers, polarizing lawmakers and threatening lives around the world. Seething or Subtle, Donald Moffett’s Art Is Always Political 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

And I found her frustrating for reasons that in hindsight were about me, not about Jane. Q&A: Writing the New 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' 2010-04-19T09:05:00Z

This drifting was frustrating at moments but also felt purposeful, a structural reminder of the subterfuge required by dissident writers working against and within a society ruled by an oppressive bureaucratic regime. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z

My exchanges with the rental company were polite, but frustrating. Perspective | How much does this actually cost? In travel, it can be hard to get a straight answer. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Initially, this hyperactive mix of genre conventions is bewildering and particularly frustrating. Dream Trigger 3D ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:53Z

Technology promises fewer frustrating waits in lift lines this year, at least in Colorado. 9 Things Every Skier Should Know This Winter 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

This is particularly frustrating given that the chamber music field is exploding with new work and, relatively inexpensive to present, offers far easier opportunities for experimentation than orchestras or opera companies. Review: Chamber Music Society Returns, Unchanged 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Yet, frustratingly, we are forever outside that world and thus in a sense, when compared to the psychotic, we are inauthentic. I’m in love with a psychotic 2012-07-06T00:00:00Z

If things get too frustrating, they jump in their pool and relax before going back to the project. Finding Beauty in a New Routine 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

I happily acknowledge that her daughter has been an inspiration and introduced me to my employers, but it’s frustrating to feel so undermined. Social Q’s: On the Amend 2014-01-23T20:48:57Z

Though the afternoon was frustrating, it was also revealing. Journeys: Driving Through Cambodia: A Road Trip Through Ruins and Unexplored Highways 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z

“The stories of that process, and also their backgrounds, it’s a great story. This is what’s so frustrating when it’s all clotted up.” Face time with John Dickerson, the new host of ‘Face the Nation’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

He had "a face that made aesthetic sense, as opposed to the frustrating Picasso adulthood has seen fit to furnish me with". Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

One of the most frustrating and unpredictable skin concerns is redness, which is often exacerbated by the harsh weather many face this time of year. Relieve red skin with these tips from a celebrity esthetician 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

“S-Town” is a story peopled by fascinating characters who are frustrating, wonderful, and — above all — complex. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

One was Frank Ocean, whose live act is flickeringly strong but frustratingly half-formed. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z

Perhaps it's because corporate outsourcing is now a very real -- and frustrating -- part of Westerners lives. "Slumdog" helps usher in Hollywood's Indian era 2010-08-25T00:37:00Z

Of all the lockdown restrictions frustrating Australians, working from home is not one of them. Remote working is not going away: who wins and loses when workers stay home? 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

He's teared up at a press conference after a loss and called the season "the most frustrating time I've ever had in coaching." Sports' Biggest Chumps 2010-03-03T22:05:00Z

These essays, along with some other previously published pieces on travel, movies, and her family, are collected in her frustrating new book, Changing My Mind. 2009-12-10T17:55:00Z

So it’s frustrating that too often the effect is the opposite. Let’s drop the gender stereotypes – we are all non-binary 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Rivers, who became host of Fox's "The Late Show" in 1986 after filling in as the sole regular guest host on Johnny Carson's "Tonight," calls the lack of female hosts "beyond" frustrating. Late-night network shows still a white men's club 2013-04-06T21:46:04Z

Heather Hill, a St. Mary’s University comparative psychologist who plans to monitor the sleeping habits of Takara and the calf, said it was frustrating to see research opportunities at SeaWorld decline. Newborn orca is the last baby killer whale for SeaWorld 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

So when she's having frustrating moments with her family or friends or at work or with her kids, she uses it to fuel her sets that are mostly on the fly. Rachel Brosnahan thought she was bad at comedy until "Maisel" came along 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

But it’s even more challenging and frustrating for voters. Perspective | Bernie and Biden have been courting voters virtually, and it’s not going well 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

With logic that’s both absurd and frustratingly hard to refute, Dean brushes off his brother’s doubts. Review: ‘Grandfathered’ and ‘The Grinder,’ Two New Fox Sitcoms 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Though they exchanged frustratingly little information, the three siblings agreed that Lord Baelish must be trying to manipulate them. How a Certain Character’s Death Was Foreshadowed All Season on Game of Thrones 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

The program was simultaneously deeply satisfying and a little frustrating. Review: Rainbow Dance Theatre brings variety-filled delights, while Japan's Maika Misumi leaves you eager to see more, as Beyond the Threshold wraps things up 2010-06-12T16:35:00Z

That these stories end but do not conclude is a formal choice that some readers will find frustrating. What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

You’re frustrating them and creating a certain amount of anxiety and trying to keep things unresolved to keep the story going. How to Write TV in the Age of Trump: Showrunners Reveal All 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Pieces like this are endlessly frustrating, implying simultaneously that protest bands haven’t done enough and also that their efforts are futile, even childish. Punk rock made me a lefty 2012-08-24T15:13:00Z

“I’m in the really frustrating position of trying to explain it to them. And I’m being met with the response, ‘If you’re uncomfortable, you don’t have to come.’” This American Mess 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

Unsolved mysteries can be frustrating, but they also leave more room for speculation and armchair sleuthing than the ones with tidy endings. 6 Podcasts About Unsolved Mysteries 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

“He took it from our cash register. He also took utensils from the kitchen and other items. It's just very frustrating to see your business get broke into like this.” Restaurant thief cooks himself a meal before trashing cafe 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

And Johnson, full of a frustrating level of unrealized promise, seemed unwilling to commit to his craft. After 35 years, a stolen Stradivarius finds its way home 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The need for a new biography is not entirely obvious; and unfortunately, the man who lies at the heart of all these turbulent personal and political maelstroms remains oddly and frustratingly distant in Eisner’s telling. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Says Schwartz: “One of the things that’s both striking and frustrating is that while people are tortured by too many options, if you ask them about it, they’ll always say they want more.” Paint companies have a new idea for overwhelmed consumers: Fewer options 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

This is the sleight of hand this extraordinary but frustrating band can perform, leaving you scratching your head over how something can be so radically different from the sum of its parts. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

In highlighting it now, “The Breakthrough” relates an unfolding and very frustrating mystery. Could Immunotherapy Offer a Cure for Cancer? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

But the book stresses that Chesnutt was an extremely complex person: He was imperfect, but he was also a musical genius and darkly funny, a frustrating person but still someone worth cherishing and knowing. “No one can live with this much pain and anger, it’s gonna kill me”: Throwing Muses’ Kristin Hersh on Vic Chesnutt’s suicide, PTSD and why songwriters are “pretty broken” 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

Despite such moments of illumination, the meaning of Point Omega remains frustratingly shady. Point Omega by Don DeLillo | Book review 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

He says he found each as frustrating as the other. Disabled dating on Tinder: ‘People ask if I can have sex’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

And this was one example of Emmy’s attempt to balance legitimately great choices that also made history with frustrating old habits that make it entirely, boringly predictable. "The Handmaid's Tale," "Veep" take top prizes at the 2017 Emmys 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

So far, the results have been frustratingly mixed. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

This is immensely frustrating and can totally throw off your entire experience. The creamiest, most decadent fettuccine Alfredo is only 15 short minutes away 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a candid statement, but also a frustrating one: Did his eagerness to understand the border at the ground level not move him to better understand how the detention and deportation process functioned? A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

But the more time we spend with her, the more frustrating it becomes that she can’t be half as eloquent outwardly. ‘Losing It’: A 26-year-old virgin plots her own deflowering 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

While it’s frustrating that Mr. Palmer doesn’t dig deep into the complexities of the fights, one of the movie’s strengths is the honesty with which he confesses his doubts about them. | 'Knuckle': ?Knuckle,? Documentary About Fighting Irish Travelers - Review 2011-12-09T02:03:03Z

Before the festival hit its stride Friday night, first-day jitters were apparent all over the  grounds during much of the afternoon, making for a frustrating opening. Rock in Rio debuts to 82,000 fans 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

But it is a career that remains "really frustrating", she says, because "there aren't bloody well enough parts for women". Actors' union rallies theatres to enable more parts for women 2012-06-29T16:44:14Z

Where book-Auden avoided friendship, femininity and emotion with frustrating frequency because of her restrictive upbringing, movie-Auden is basically a chill girl with a smidgen of baggage. ‘Along for the Ride’ Review: Becoming a Kid Again 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

By that I mean, expect your two toddlers to be impulsive, self-absorbed, moody, capable of following only the simplest instructions and occasionally so frustrating that you want to scream. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Spoiling a grandchild is one thing. Handing him a lighter is another. 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

Provocative as it is, with evocations of “Heart of Darkness,” the movie, which is pessimistic about the ability of Western do-gooders to help Africans, feels frustratingly incomplete. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival, With Bela Tarr and Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2011-10-04T22:23:21Z

Without crab sightings to interrupt us, Douglas told the story of the parks, which opened in 2002 after years of frustrating government delays. Wildlife galore in the Bahamas, where the whole world’s a park 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

We could not address all these things, and yes, at times it was frustrating. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z

"The reality of Parkinson's is that sometimes it's frustrating, sometimes it's funny," Fox, 52, said on Saturday at the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour. New Michael J. Fox show highlights humor in Parkinson's fight 2013-07-28T00:51:47Z

It's frustrating that show that did so well with deaf characters in an earlier episode makes an ableist blunder in this one. “Hawkeye” is a pandemic fable 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

There are some who find that difference of experience exciting, others frustrating, and I fear you’re in the latter camp. I fight all the time with my young boyfriend. Can we work it out? | Dear Mariella 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z

"The most frustrating part was, I would get very close to booking things, and the biggest thing that was held against me was I was always too green," Steinfeld said. Teen actress shows true grit in Coens' new Western 2010-12-24T00:42:06Z

It's a truism to say that all costume drama is a product of its time, but in its new BBC incarnation Upstairs Downstairs was frustratingly hobbled by politically correct anachronisms. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z

Junya Watanabe makes such wearable clothes, and it was frustrating to find that his new venue — a Parisian mansion filled with ornate cornices and fancy gilding — had not changed his attitude. Fashion Review: Punk Hangs In There 2014-01-19T13:11:08Z

So it’s unfortunate that, particularly in Act I, this is a frustrating production. Review: In ‘A Taste of Honey,’ She’s Having the Baby. How Quaint. 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

It's so frustrating to me to be treated as if I don't know what I'm talking about. "As a Woman" author Paula Stone Williams: I was "unaware of my male privilege" until transition 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z

And yet, sleep remains a frustrating goal for a significant segment of the population. 7 surprisingly helpful tips to make you fall asleep faster 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

This secondhand description was particularly frustrating in a play about a sport that thrives on the display of combat. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stop Talking To Me 2010-10-21T17:37:00Z

However, James does deserve a fair amount of flack, because, despite his greatness, his approach to the game can be frustrating. Why LeBron James Is Failing in the Finals 2011-06-10T11:00:00Z

“I was offered every mob script everywhere in the world, and that was a little frustrating,” she says. Pandemic TV hero Lorraine Bracco on why ‘The Sopranos’ was a quarantine hit and that house in Sicily she bought for a buck 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

"There is an unearned air of arrogance about the man that is incredibly frustrating to witness," Ashton writes. Retired prosecutor aims at Anthony attorneys 2011-11-15T12:36:09Z

Since these performers merit affection and deserve encouragement, it’s a frustrating experience. Dance Review: Illustrious Local Compatriot Contributes to a Troupe?s New York Visit 2011-08-16T21:52:58Z

Call of Duty Black Ops II: 'veers between entertaining and frustrating'. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – review 2012-11-18T00:06:07Z

In “Broken Clocks,” she sang about a frustratingly iffy relationship, topping a slow-swaying vamp with jazzy, asymmetrical vocal lines that could dart nervously ahead, pivot suddenly, linger over a quivering tone and declaim a chorus. The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

In practice it’s just dull, and it’s frustrating to see Ms. Hawn robbed the opportunity to be silly. Review: She’s Still a Mess, but ‘Snatched’ Is No ‘Trainwreck’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The other aspects of things that are going on in entertainment right now are frustrating to me. ArtsBeat: ?Mad Men? Creator Talks as Season Comes to an End 2010-10-18T03:02:00Z

Equally as frustrating are the ones that do reply with an answer that isn’t as satisfying as the original question. Smart Watch: Why is there yet another season of "13 Reasons Why"? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

Optimism is vindicated in a climax that I found both thrilling and frustrating. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

The form of compensation that the museum offered in the email was particularly frustrating to some of the artists on the receiving end of it: a lifetime pass granting them free entry to the museum. Whitney Cancels Show That Included Works Bought at Fund-Raisers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

That kind of low profile can be frustrating to fund-raisers, since giving publicly tends to generate other giving. How Do You Raise $3.47 Billion? Ask These Guys. 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

It's simply that at its best moments you got a glimpse of what it could have been and yet, frustratingly, wasn't. Line of Duty: series one, episode five 2012-07-24T21:00:00Z

But those youthful hobbyists likely found, after a few frustrating sittings with lacklustre results, that capturing a moment in time in the mid-nineteenth century was more invigorating in theory than in execution. Lewis Carroll’s Portraiture 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

It was frustrating to have inner details and layered textures become so blurred. The Philharmonic’s Free Concert at St. John the Divine 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Before that can happen, he has to persaude her to believe him, and believe in her own abilities again, and getting to that point in the first two hours can verge on frustrating. "The Man Who Fell to Earth" ambitiously picks up where the sci-fi cult classic's mission ended 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

I was getting so much of that and it was super frustrating, so I found myself literally just passing on pilots and saying this isn’t for me. Insecure's Jay Ellis: 'Every time I've been pulled over, I thought I was going to get killed' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Walking through the large ground-floor exhibition area — a raw, gutted, industrial space with dangling wires and bare concrete — is an eye-popping yet frustrating experience. Scene/ Seen: Sowing the Seeds of Culture 2011-02-18T12:00:05Z

Hence the Soviet joke about the worker who every day pushes a wheelbarrow of rubbish through the factory gates, frustrating the guard, who’s sure he must be smuggling something out. If I don’t see it, why should I clean it? 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

His homework became a frustrating exercise in writing once, and then, at the teacher’s request, writing again, just for legibility. Watch How You Hold That Crayon 2010-02-24T21:54:00Z

It more than does the job: suspense, merciless kills and child actors that, yes, may be frustrating, but hold their own. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

“I just want to highlight how depressing and frustrating the whole waiting-list situation is,” she said. 'It was a lonely time': trans woman told to wait three years for appointment 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Certain people seem to pop up on my newsfeed more than others, even though I’m not close to them,” he said, “and in the election season, it’s particularly frustrating.” And Now, I Unfollow Thee 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

As smartly conceived and gorgeously written as "Tigerman" is, its failures are frustrating. 'Tigerman' finds Nick Harkaway in retro superhero mode 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The frustrating part about even that, though, is that "Reservation Dogs" is one of the easiest and most inviting shows to spend time with. "Reservation Dogs" ends its high-spirited second season by reminds us why we still believe 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

But then CAS added a caveat that was even more frustrating: If Valieva were to finish in the top three, there would be no medal ceremony. The 8 biggest Beijing 2022 Olympics controversies, from doping to disqualifications 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

And found it largely as dull, frustrating and sporadically brilliant as I did back in 2000. Radiohead's Kid A: still not much cop 2010-10-11T11:59:00Z

James Rhodes: 'Find what you love and let it kill you'My life as a concert pianist can be frustrating, lonely, demoralising and exhausting. Sleeve notes: Come to Glastonbury with the Guardian 2013-05-03T12:42:49Z

It's frustrating how the way our system is set up that sometimes you got evidence and you're innocent, but because of our rules of evidence, you may not be able to introduce it. Brian Banks, the man behind the movie, on his wrongful conviction and the fight to clear his name 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Right from the opening scene, the actor’s liveliness embodies someone who hasn’t entirely dimmed her light for an unresponsive boyfriend — though Stephens frustratingly leaves unsaid any reason that Sylvie should stick around. ‘Modern Swimwear’ Review: The Designer and the Murderer 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Beth Orton recalled the frustrating process of making her 2022 album, “Weather Alive,” and how label woes and abandoned sessions prompted her to believe she no longer belonged in the music business. How Shahzad Ismaily Became Musicians’ Favorite Musician 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

Particularly if the reviewer is Reginald Edward Morse, the querulous narrator of Rick Moody's frustratingly uneven novel, "Hotels of North America." Rick Moody's uneven 'Hotels of North America' is not worth a stay 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

While frustrating for people in the business of using words to convey precise meaning, the fact that QAnon defies easy definition is exactly what makes it so powerful. Confronting the Threat of QAnon 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z

I couldn’t be as good as I wanted to be, and it was frustrating. Billy Joel’s Got a Good Job and Hits in His Head 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

So on a single visit to this meticulously crafted new museum, I found myself thinking less of an artist whom I almost always admire and more of one whom I often find frustrating. Review | The country’s newest must-see museum is meticulous and quietly spectacular 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

The most frustrating airports tend to be disliked because of one or two specific problem areas, be it delayed or cancelled flights, long treks or public transportation shortcomings. The Secrets of Surviving the 10 Most Nightmarish Airports This Thanksgiving 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

As intriguing as she is, the character remains frustratingly undeveloped. Review: ‘Standing Tall,’ a Boy’s Encounter With the Law 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

To former President Ronald Reagan: “Is it, for you, frustrating to not remember something?” Larry King, Breezy Interviewer of the Famous and Infamous, Dies at 87 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

The set pieces are predictably great, but the story seems needlessly intricate and frustratingly opaque. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

But the artist’s fixation on scientific theorems and rational systems can sometimes be frustrating. In San Francisco, Art That Unspools the Mysteries of the Universe 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

That’s a bit frustrating, since the carefully composed dance is also ever changing. Review: In Liz Gerring’s Latest, Words Dance, Too 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Yet it seemed frustrating that in the urge to codify brand Chanel, there was no hint of the visionary modernity of Coco’s early comet designs nor of the recent lion symbolism. The Year of the Snake in a Bejeweled Garden 2013-01-28T13:56:12Z

“That’s the frustrating part to me — that we can’t have a conversation about how to get creative in this sort of middle space.” The Hamburglar? How a story about meat limits fell apart 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Deliberately frustrating fans who have become used to instant gratification, Daft Punk stoked anticipation and created an aura of mystery around “Random Access Memories.” Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z

It was deeply frustrating, all the more so as the problem was almost certainly mine. Precision: The Measure of All Things; The Greatest Shows on Earth – TV review 2013-06-25T06:00:00Z

The frustrating part about Broadway dance isn’t that there is no choreography of quality, but that what’s excellent — “Oklahoma!” and, in another register, “The Prom” — isn’t being recognized. There’s Great Dance on Broadway. Hello, Tony Awards? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

When it comes to broadening the sounds that echo through our opera houses and concert halls, change can be frustratingly slow. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

At times this was frustrating, but over the course of the full three hours judgment couldn't help but be passed, albeit indirectly. The Iraq War; Dates – TV review 2013-06-12T21:30:00Z

“International travel remains either off limits or frustratingly difficult for many,” she added. Travelers’ Frustration Mounts at ‘Confusing’ British Traffic-Light System 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

The snub is frustrating, because NIN more than any band is determined to haul rock ‘n’ roll into the modern age. Trent Reznor was robbed: Nine Inch Nails’ snub proves the Rock Hall of Fame doesn’t get electronic music 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Where the first half of the book is brilliant, the second can be frustrating. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

In the absence of strong, clearly defined dramatic action James’s leisurely plots can feel frustratingly irresolute, and the characters’ many scruples and hesitancies, so evocative on the page, can become downright puzzling on the screen. Translating Henry James for the Screen 2013-04-28T03:43:13Z

It was a characteristically sensuous, appealing performance from one of the most frustrating figures in classical music. Joshua Bell Plays Mostly Mozart 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Car rental companies have frustratingly variable definitions of the word “reservation,” ranging from “whimsical notion” to “binding agreement.” Help! I Reserved a Rental Car, but There Was No Car for Me. 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

I’m sure it was satisfying to see people so engaged, but was it also frustrating that your biggest secrets were revealed ahead of the finale? ‘Westworld’ Creators Speak of Seasons, Spoilers and Patience 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Everything I do as a person with a disability takes longer and then to have to deal with that is more frustrating,” Ms. Boyd said. Everyone Has a Theory About Shopping Carts 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

MZS: Here's the frustrating thing, though: As you point out, this sort of role is indeed a gimme for any skilled British actor. Great Oscar debate: Why was Franco nominated? 2011-02-24T21:20:00Z

The season closed on a successful note overall, with a script by written series creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan that was as electrifying as it was puzzling and frustrating. “Westworld” season finale: Violent delights, violent ends and new questions 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

He'd gotten an American degree and his English was comfortable, fluent, and yet his name, skin and decided lack of connections made his first attempts to find work frustrating. Antyesti in Brooklyn: How NYC honored my father upon his death, during a time of anti-Asian hate 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

But she’s also frustrating in the particular way that addicts are, where they just can’t seem to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over. Paula Hawkins on Why Her Book The Girl on the Train Is Being Called 'The Next Gone Girl' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

But whether it's truth or fiction, I left with frustratingly little idea. Rhod Gilbert – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-24T17:00:01Z

Certainly, for those who don’t speak Dani it is frustrating not to know what they’re saying, which is presumably to the movie’s point and the questions it raises about anthropology. ‘Expedition Content’ Review: Anthropological Maneuvers in the Dark 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

He asked Wendt what she wanted to collect — insulin pumps was the answer — and what she liked and found frustrating about the job. New Smithsonian chief takes the grand tour 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The work is great, but it can be frustrating to be denied a bigger slice of stardom. Experience: I regularly smash things in a rage room 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

And so Friday’s early set was casual, stylized, spare, genial, dreamy and, except for about four minutes near the end, almost enervated, frustratingly low-impact. Music Review: Bill Frisell and Friends Play Venerable Country Tunes 2014-01-19T22:08:32Z

“You become a little more aware of yourself in the world and you want things a certain way and when they’re not, it’s frustrating,” he says. Paul Reiser: 'I'm at a point in my life that playing a cranky older guy is appealing' 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

Many significant questions go unanswered, which is especially frustrating given Conason’s access to all the major players. Joe Klein of ‘Primary Colors’ Reviews the Latest on Bill Clinton 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Like many who are single in the dating-app era, Cooper has had her share of frustrating false starts. Welcome to Rom Com Fest, a haven for fans who never stopped believing in happily ever after 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

“Deep River” earns its scope in part because it reveals the frustratingly incremental effort to improve conditions — every demand, from straw for bedding to eight-hour workdays, becomes a pitched battle. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

This timidity brings up the most frustrating aspect of American orchestras over all: a deep-rooted fear of jettisoning the weekly subscription series format, or at least cutting back on it. Critic’s Notebook: Alan Gilbert Shapes a Legacy of Change at the Philharmonic 2013-07-15T20:46:01Z

And “I don’t have all my fingers and toes, so I find doing everyday things a bit more frustrating than she does.” For Couple With Moebius Syndrome, Love Is Expressed From the Heart 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

"She doesn't listen and she can be frustrating but in a funny way." Jessica Walter tests boundaries in 'Jennifer Falls' 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Teetering between definitive fates is frustrating unless you view it as the anticipatory cushion between where you are and someplace brighter. Keep on believing in "Ted Lasso" because its second season is richer and sweeter than the first 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Even with its storyline's clichés and inconsistencies waved in your face, director Sylvian White's entry into the action-movie sweepstakes emits a frustrating aura of clutter and compromise. "The Losers": Big explosions, little surprises 2010-04-23T00:23:00Z

It’s nearly five years since we started this project, as frustrating and sort of anxiety-making as that can be. Ladies and Gentlemen, Daniel Craig 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

I want us to want to talk about them, and yes, even gossip about them, in all their complex and frustrating glory. In defence of gossip: no better way to navigate life's flawed relationships 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

But during the first interview, a director pointed out that she finds it frustrating that reporters almost exclusively interviewed her about “being a woman in Hollywood” rather than about her work itself. Women reign on Emmy favorites, but few are involved in making them 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s been a difficult, long and somewhat frustrating set of conversations over the years with Croatia,” said Gideon Taylor, chair of operations at the restitution organization. Croatia Takes a Step Toward Returning Art Looted During the Holocaust 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

The "Fishing" pirates are so frustratingly ineffectual there's a mutiny. 'Fishing Without Nets' fails to catch interest 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Unlike many of his daily newspaper peers, Gold penned reviews without affixing stars to them, no doubt frustrating both editors and readers who desired a quick calculation of a restaurant’s worth. Jonathan Gold did more than critique the Los Angeles food scene. He defined it. 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

It's incredibly frustrating, for Simon of course, but also for his mother and brothers. TV review: My New Brain 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z

That's kind of the saddest thing for the sufferer and the most frustrating thing for the person who is watching them suffer. Rock band Shinedown removes the stigma around mental health and addiction in “Attention Attenti... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Asked if she was frustrated that a New York museum had yet to give her a show, she replied with equanimity, “I never expected it so it’s not frustrating.” Her Views From Close Up Are on Everyone’s Radar 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

“One thing that’s very frustrating about this stuff, but also really fun, is that we’re learning new stuff every single day,” he said. The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composers’ Dramatic ‘Library Music’ 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

If this sounds tedious and frustrating, it is. T Magazine: Keeping Time 2012-11-26T14:00:26Z

Ms. Olsen’s performance is both the key to the film and the source of its sometimes frustrating opacity. Movie Review: Elizabeth Olsen in ?Martha Marcy May Marlene? - Review 2011-10-20T22:19:32Z

These omissions prove especially frustrating in the case of the new book. The Kathleen Collins Revival Continues With ‘Notes From a Black Woman’s Diary’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The shortcomings of virtual gatherings are frustrating and numerous. Samin Nosrat Wants Us to Make Lasagna Together 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

"This is very frustrating," one TV news reporter said at the news conference. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z

It made for a frustratingly flippant whole, with a penchant for relentless carbonated jollity that suggested the series was almost embarrassed by its more intellectual components. Last night's TV 2010-06-17T07:00:00Z

But the particular nature of this family blindness remains frustratingly unexamined. What if the Thief Who Steals Your Identity Is Your Mom? 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

That kind of thing can be incredibly frustrating, but it feels alive in some way, like a wire of electricity you can use to activate something else. Noah Baumbach Knows What You’re Thinking 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

And despite the bitter cold, our season is frustratingly short. 2010-01-13T13:42:00Z

Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of accessibility is how random it all seems, how much it depends on chance and the whims of non-disabled people. What's so hard about making movies accessible? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

We obviously fight sometimes – there's stress and frustrating moments – but I think it's longer-lasting. Delorean: 'We're a friend alliance first, a musical project second' 2012-06-20T14:26:00Z

The seemingly perfect sibling of the Fleabag clan was given ample opportunities to be heartbreaking and hilarious and frustrating when the series debuted three years ago. Let us praise Claire, the true hero of "Fleabag" 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

I found the digressiveness of this collection frustrating at times — it’s not a likable or easily accessible book. In Stories About Slavery and Its Legacy, Hints of the Author’s Life 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Brassai was a favorite photographer of Picasso, and he made moody black-and-white images of the master’s sculpture that become frustratingly indelible once you’ve seen them. In a MOMA retrospective, Picasso’s sculpture is still full of surprises 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

And it was frustrating, he said, because there were empty houses on the islands, more than ever in fact. Voyages: My Debt to Ireland 2012-02-10T20:35:10Z

The prospect of facing a crowd at the airport is endlessly frustrating to travelers like Annette Kleier, a retired accountant from Louisville. How to avoid that thousand-yard stare from standing in long airport lines 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s frustrating — disempowering even — to realize how much of our lives this country yields to tradition. Perspective | Trapped in while dining out: When white people make me part of their show 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

“He’s just taking it in kind of instantly, almost frustratingly, to be perfectly honest,” Adams said. So Long, Medical Scrubs. Jesse Williams Is Ready to Play Ball. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Being healed in order to be immediately re-blown to bits is frustrating in the extreme. Killzone 3 ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:20Z

It's very frustrating: you work for nothing and the only advertising is you going on talk shows and all of that. Behind the Candelabra is tipped for Cannes success – but can't win Oscar 2013-05-21T16:27:22Z

So those things are incredibly frustrating and it doesn't make for a good restaurant. "We'll all get there together": Chef Edward Lee on restaurants' resiliency and #MeToo in the kitchen 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

Rogers said it can be frustrating to watch British actors give interviews about the extensive research and character work they did to prepare for a US role. Black American actors slighted as Brits nab roles: 'we can't tell our own stories?' 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

But even she has two backing singers to perk up her high end, and an effects unit to play with, making this theoretically triumphant return after 14 years a little frustrating in places. Antony's Meltdown – review 2012-08-11T23:06:00Z

The film captures the precariousness of an addict’s sobriety, how easily it is violated, and how humiliating and frustrating the repeated experience is for the sufferer and his loved ones. Fathers and Sons, Reliving on Film the Pain of Addiction 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the film reveals frustratingly little about the sisters themselves. 'The Midnight Swim' a mystery with supernatural touches 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“Poor People’s TV Room” was at its most frustrating when it featured overlapping conversations that were impossible to understand. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

This sort of broad line of questioning – and the fact that an anonymous dialogue might tail off, without scope for any follow-up – can seem frustratingly opaque for anyone trying to measure Moonshot’s success. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

But both also said that, while there may be some frustrating moments — just like with any new activities, there are learning curves — there's a lot of comfort to be found, too. Raise chickens? Make preserves? Why Americans are flocking to urban homesteading activities 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

But it necessarily suffers from the frustrating opacity of its subject, and the unfortunate timing of its release. Review | ‘The Butterfly Effect’ charts Kendrick Lamar’s evolution from platinum-selling rapper to protest artist 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

But these frustratingly all-too-rare moments made me feel like I was glimpsing spirited bits of greenery pushing through a crack in a sidewalk. 'Elsa Schiaparelli': Fashion designer too elusive for words 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

"It was really frustrating because I wanted to release asap," she says. 'I want this to last for ever' 2010-06-15T20:00:00Z

Of course, if you are trying to get pregnant, an irregular cycle can be frustrating. Another routine the pandemic has disrupted: Your period 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

“For such a powerful man, for such an influential man, to not be able to control the outcome of what’s going on, I’m sure, is frustrating,” Alderman Sawyer said. Struggles for Jesse Jackson, Father and Son 2012-11-23T21:27:53Z

The sense of time and place is vivid, but the lack of a strong plot can be frustrating. "You Won't Be Alone" is a sensual and gory shapeshifting film that pushes back at society 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long. Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show 2010-03-18T23:15:00Z

“It was frustrating. In 1999 you couldn’t find what you wanted, which was a friendly neighborhood store that sold highly selective cosmetics and skin care products.” Beauty Emporiums Including Sephora and Ulta Are Riding a Wave of Popularity 2014-04-30T23:43:37Z

By the time the book reaches its close, on Page 459, it all seems frustratingly repetitive. After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

I think that it was a long and frustrating process that didn’t achieve the greatest hopes of the citizens who pushed for it. Can cancer clusters be explained? 2013-03-31T17:00:00Z

And their audience is, frustratingly, not always us, but too often each other. Review: 'The Laramie Project' paints public, private face of grieving community 2010-07-16T15:34:00Z

It was exciting, but also frustrating, because there was little response from the rest of the world or even Africa itself. Ibrahim el-Salahi: from Sudanese prison to Tate Modern show 2013-07-03T18:30:01Z

Because Gandalf is larger than most of the other "Hobbit" characters, including its 13 dwarves, McKellen often filmed by himself in front of a green screen, which he called "frustrating." Wizard garb helped McKellen re-conjure Gandalf 2012-12-12T15:40:14Z

A movie about their frustration ought to be equally frustrating to watch — and this one is. Review | Like the activism it chronicles, ‘Baltimore Rising’ struggles to find real progress 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z

Yet without any context to help you situate what you're seeing, Layman's visions have the frustrating allure or magnetic pull of a tune you can't place or a name that escapes you. Isaac Layman's 'Paradise' transcends ordinary 2011-12-01T00:40:04Z

These characters prove Marvel knows how to write and bring to life interesting women of color — that's why it's so frustrating they remain confined to the role of sidekicks. "Shang-Chi" crafted a fantastic, badass fighter – too bad the movie was all about her brother 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

And last month, a new $600 million wing was postponed by several years, frustrating the Met’s efforts to become a serious player in the competitive field of Modern and contemporary art. Is the Met Museum ‘a Great Institution in Decline’? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

Hearing only snippets of a lot of poems is also a bit frustrating; slam poetry doesn’t break down well into sound bites. | 'Louder Than a Bomb': A Stream of Words, Painting a Picture 2011-05-17T22:53:02Z

The programs, too commonly a numbing pileup of tired showpieces and frustrating excerpts, disappoint. An All-Star Dance Gala Takes Risks and Soars 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

“As frustrating as it was to be a nurse, now that I’m not at the bedside I’m feeling a bit guilty. I’m working in an office,” she said. Health beats wealth for nurse expecting pandemic Mother's Day baby 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

That last aspect is as bracing as it can be frustrating. Review: Hopscotching Between Worlds in ‘My Dear Brooklyn’ 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

We find Coach reacting to Tami’s news with a frustrating chauvinism. ArtsBeat: ?Friday Night Lights? Watch: Tami Taylor?s Dream Job 2011-07-02T04:01:26Z

“I find the process frustrating, because the nozzle is so small,” one of them said. Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z

Gail Jaworski’s reservation is lost when she and her husband arrive in Barcelona, and getting help is a frustrating, soggy experience. Squish, squish: Hotels.com left us waiting in the rain for our room 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Which may be frustrating and inconclusive, but then, so is our current reality. Hashtag Fashion on the Rise 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Within a song they would follow the logic of tension and release and then become profoundly frustrating; they made no-shows, violations of contract and a disinterest in promotion cycles almost essential to their aesthetics. Albums From Art Hirahara and Death Grips 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

In this frustratingly opaque world, it’s not clear what will remain the morning after. Dance Review: Lost in Their Own Worlds, Yet Performing Together 2010-10-15T22:54:00Z

I find her expectations frustrating but am struggling with how to change this dynamic. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If you want to stop a diva’s melodrama, let her hear crickets 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

But that lack of control seemed to prove more frustrating to Fonda, who was vocal about her desire for more women to be running film studios. Sundance 2015: Jane Fonda calls for shaming of 'gender-biased' studios 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

It hints frustratingly, throughout, at a comedic impulse that the direction of its actors suppresses. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

This frustrating, almost allegorical inequality contours the whole tale. Review | In Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall,’ there is life after death 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

And yes, her preference for fuzzy platitudes over actual opinions is frustrating to those of us who know how smart she is. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

None of the posts on my social-media feed suggested that being a “Cycler” would be such a frustrating, often daunting commitment. ‘I felt colossally naive’: the backlash against the birth control app 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

"There was a complete Vivaldi silence for almost 200 years, which is very frustrating and very exciting at the same time because there is constantly a possibility of making new discoveries." World premiere of Vivaldi's earliest known work 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

But it must be frustrating to aim for Munch and Kinski, only to be reduced to internet supercuts about Cage Rage. Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

But she finds it frustrating that women aren’t allowed to fail in the same way as men. 'There's this idea that mothers are completely selfless': Diablo Cody on Tully – and the Juno backlash 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Interestingly, and frustratingly, this man who was so integral to the creation of the M.F.A. project, is only partially present in the murals themselves. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

"I do think a lot of breweries are really IPA heavy now, and I get why that can be frustrating," Howard said. IPA: Why the love-it-or-hate-it beer is here to stay 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

There are lots of romantic interludes, frustrating breakups and unfortunate misunderstandings as the film moves toward its answer. Romance proves ageless in 'Elsa & Fred' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Perhaps most frustrating is a pervasive lack of charm or humor. Jaap van Zweden: Before You See Him, Listen 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

“New York is a frustrating place to live for a musician,” said Ms. Greenleaf, who worked for 10 years as an executive assistant and sang on the side. Critic?s Notebook: Vespers Born of Determination and Joy 2010-12-30T22:40:55Z

“Wildcat” is well-meaning, but it’s very frustrating, particularly as Turner’s mental health begins to erode. ‘Wildcat’ Review: Rescue and Rewild 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating,” says Bob Glaze, the curator of online travel guide Globalphile.com. The worst travel fees, and how to avoid them 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

“The reductive nature nowadays of most journalism is very frustrating.” Cillian Murphy: ‘It is getting absurd with the dumbing down' 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

There are other reasons the mainstream success of “Boys Don’t Cry” was as validating as it was frustrating for trans viewers. ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ 20 Years Later: For Trans Men, a Divisive Legacy 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Although, it's just still so frustrating that Trump is in The White House, and I wonder how much progress can we really do? "Big Summer" author Jennifer Weiner: We all deserve pleasure amidst our quarantine soap opera 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine “Family Portrait in Black and White,” a documentary by Julia Ivanova, leaves a lot of questions unanswered, which is frustrating, but it gets high marks for honesty. Movie Review: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ 2012-07-12T23:34:21Z

Perhaps one of the more frustrating things about Raising Dion is that despite feeling like a padded season, it still leaves so many questions unanswered. Raising Dion – the superpowers and supertwists: discuss with spoilers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Healing can be an arduous and frustrating road, a process fraught with setbacks and fear and the intense pressure to just get over it and be our old selves again. Welcome to the age of cancer rehab 2013-01-29T20:57:00Z

After a frustrating year on Match.com — “The type of man who’s on it and of a certain age shouldn’t be on anything,” Ms. Goldman said — she stumbled upon Ashley Madison, the site specializing in extramarital encounters. Dating 6 Men at 68: The Woman Behind the Musical ‘Curvy Widow’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

That’s a natural thing to do in quarantine, when the mind is seething with internal conversations and possibilities for real dialogue are frustratingly limited. It Takes One: How the Monologue Speaks Loudest in Lockdown 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

For the first time in my life I felt the baffling, frustrating and debilitating effects of fatigue: inability to concentrate, loss of memory, tiredness, apathy, you name it. You don’t know $#% about CFS 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z

What is most frustrating about Lagercrantz's installment is that he never fully trusts the reader, and so key revelations are repeated several times by different characters in connected scenes with little to no new insight. Does 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' hurt the legacy of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander? 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

The work is likeable and very engaging, but with these flaws – that are frustrating in seeming avoidable – it may not be indispensable. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z

The structure of the book — bouncing nonlinearly among the past, the near-past and the present — is frustratingly complex, to the point where it's nearly impossible to grasp the storyline. In 'The Lost Time Accidents,' John Wray balances the logical and the ludicrous 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

“I just feel it’s a frustrating time,” he continued. Perspective | At the Toronto International Film Festival, you can feel anxiety in the air — and on the screen 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z

None of that is particularly surprising, but it’s certainly frustrating. Science explains Donald Trump: Why cold weather makes people doubt global warming 2014-01-14T15:24:00Z

“It’s getting to be more and more of an endurance race. The frustrating part is we’re so close, yet so far away.” Vaccine envy is real. Here’s how to tame it. 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

It was both perfectly silly and frustratingly short-lived, which Richardson puts down to network interference. Sam Richardson: ‘I love characters that are optimistic and sweet’ 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Right away, he experiences a generosity that is real and frustrating. Ken Ilgunas' 'Trespassing across America' on the 1,700-mile route of the Keystone XL pipeline 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

But earlier in the afternoon, the scene was a much different one, as first-day jitters were apparent all over the festival grounds, which made for a frustrating opening. Rock in Rio starts slow, morphs into wild party 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z

But musically, balance was off in this frustratingly uneven performance of works by Dvorak, Beethoven and Franck. The Cassatt String Quartet at Bargemusic 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s history repeating itself,” the star warned, saying it was frustrating to see a pregnant woman “pursued and vilified” by the press. Scrutiny, family woes pile pressure on pregnant Meghan 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

There’s a big debate, and sometimes it is frustrating because it cuts out the nuances, but it is over the influence that the internet is having on music and the arts. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

They're right about that, but this also speaks to an aspect of Jackson's story that remains frustratingly unconsidered here and evokes what is presently playing out in our political landscape. The injustice done to Janet Jackson isn't only in the past – new film "Malfunction" also falls short 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Classic, old-school diplomacy,” he observes, is “frustrating” and involves “a lot of jet lag.” In His First Book, Ronan Farrow Laments the Decline of Diplomacy 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

In the words of the citation, Sergeant Gardner's "skilful directions and accurate fire played a good part in frustrating the attacks and enabled his captain to return safely to base". Jimmy Gardner obituary 2010-06-16T17:14:00Z

So although it's a pleasure to read the transcripts for Lee's shows, the experience is frustrating, because they cry out to be performed. How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian 2010-07-31T23:14:00Z

It’s frustrating because people stop listening, and then funding dries up.” AIDS Activist Mary Fisher Is Defined by Words, Not Disease 2012-08-22T21:10:19Z

I was writing a little bit in Yiddish, I was writing a little bit in Hebrew, but I was trying to write in English and it was very frustrating to me. Autism in the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Judaism: “There were superstitions and things that God knows how many other mothers had to deal with” 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

Bizarrely, I find they are often 149 characters, which is extremely frustrating. I’m tweeting “The Great Gatsby” 2013-05-10T23:43:00Z

“I am sure it is very frustrating to work in his communications operation. But they knew what they were getting into when they went to work there.” Stepping on the message: Trump can’t stop generating bad news amid the good 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

It is just incredibly frustrating because it kind of implies it's an intentional thing on our part which is ridiculous. Ed Vaizey defensive on arts funding cuts 2011-03-03T12:12:42Z

“It’s frustrating to see the same kind of mistakes made again,” Ms. Talbott said, “as if history does repeat itself and leaders don’t learn.” Wounded in Crossfire of a Capital Culture War 2011-03-30T11:57:54Z

In a sense, then, the necessity of talking about his physical affinity with The Sessions's subject matter must be frustrating. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

“My search returned a few different addresses. I emailed all of them, mentioning I loved this product, but the experience was beyond frustrating,” he says. Have a consumer complaint? Here’s how to get it before the right pair of eyes. 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

“We were dealing with a section on border control and immigration and now saying those words and seeing what’s happening with that is really heavy and frustrating and horrifying,” Ms. Whorton said. He Said, She Said: Gender-Bending the Presidential Debates 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

“It is the most frustrating thing you will do in your life. But once you get it — whoo-eee!” Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

I’m not saying that at times it wasn’t helpful, but there were times when it was really, really frustrating. The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Director Found Working with EL James Difficult 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

"But outside of Stratford-upon-Avon it's the closest we get to anywhere Shakespeare slept and ate. It's frustrating." What happened to Shakespeare's theatres? 2014-04-23T06:29:19Z

So do you ever find it frustrating – that kind of “freedom” – where you have to stand back and let someone else take control? Will Oldham barest interview: “I trust that there are people every day, finding their way to the pieces of work that are going to be important in their lives” 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

By which he doesn’t simply mean a man whose family fortune came from wartime slave labor, but something much more newly sinister — and frustratingly, for now, unclear. 'Homeland' Season 5 Premiere Recap: Carrie Has a New Boss and a New Life 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

My job requires me to coordinate with bureaucracies that are complex, obstructive and immensely frustrating. What Should I Do About My Rage? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

This can be frustrating — to cover so much time and space, the novel often resorts to neat and distanced summary, especially of emotion. Book review: ‘Some Luck,’ by Jane Smiley

One of the most frustrating things about the main opinion in McCullen v. Frightening audio reveals how Texas antiabortion groups “track” patients and doctors 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

One of many frustrating things about the human psyche is our natural tendency, when we’re feeling low, to drag ourselves down further still. Chronic illness is wrecking my marriage 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

It is incredibly frustrating, it reminds us of many aspects of the society we live in, where that plays out. “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

“Fred” concludes abruptly, not really resolving things; it’s a frustrating ending, but an honest one. ‘Fred Won’t Move Out’ memorable but a little too real 2012-12-13T22:23:51Z

So that must be a very frustrating situation. Read the Full Interview With American Sniper Chris Kyle That Didn't Make it to Press 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Settle for More” is a lively read, even though it is frustratingly on-brand. Megyn Kelly, the Glittering Aberration 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Nothing more frustrating than having to stop and tend to the opening of a new bottle. Hints From Heloise: Keeping raisins from clumping 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It is also frustrating, she said, to sing so rarely in her own language. Deborah Voigt to Play ?Annie Get Your Gun? Lead 2010-07-22T21:29:00Z

That Pup renders both goofy internal conflict and frustrating external tension with similar verve is part of its charm, but listen closely to Mr. Babcock, and it’s clear where his real enemies lie. Up North, Pup Makes Freshly Mutating Punk 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

“One very frustrating thing for us was that the interaction between Rimowa and the customer is always on the unenjoyable part of the travel,” he said: home to airport, airport to hotel. An Arnault, in Private and in Public 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

That was part of their final American tour under their last chief conductor, Simon Rattle, whose interpretations could be willful in a way that was sometimes illuminating and sometimes frustrating. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

The sexual tension frustratingly resists rearing its head, but we do witness some light hand-holding and forlorn looks in expensive bars. Where will The Good Wife's rollercoaster plotlines head next? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Which is another frustrating way of saying, I’m glad people are paying attention. Jordan Peele Says There May Be More ‘Nope’ Stories to Come 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z

Rhode Island’s beaches are gorgeous, dramatic places, but frustrating for walkers and swimmers who like to go the distance. My Favorite Place: Little Compton, R.I. 2011-09-23T18:58:31Z

The tenor Jonathan Burton gave a frustrating performance as Johnson. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

My point is that these barriers to entry are real, and they are frustrating to people not currently suffering from a mental health issue. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sometimes, seeking help for depression can be depressing 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Being forbidden to write about the one Broadway show everyone is chattering about can obviously be frustrating. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Why Waiting to Review Makes Sense 2011-01-06T16:52:18Z

"It's a frustrating fight, but it's one that needs to be fought." South African debuts AIDS film on World AIDS Day 2011-12-01T12:54:16Z

“Horace and Pete” is a riveting series that dares to take big dramatic risks, but what makes it frustrating is that its problems are mundane. How ‘Horace and Pete’ Made the Network Suits Look Good 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The result — somewhat frustratingly for a reviewer — is that La Farge has written a self-critiquing novel that seems to anticipate every possible complaint a reader could have. Paul La Farge’s ‘The Night Ocean’ will suck you into the vortex of H.P. Lovecraft 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

It’s so frustrating that travelers — and at least one travel insurance company — are doing something about it. Travel Wise | Going on a summer vacation? Read the fine print first. 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a frustrating, anguishing place to live, full of challenges and conflicting emotions that are difficult to convey to an outsider. TELEVISION: Kiefer Sutherland in Tim Kring?s ?Touch? on Fox 2012-01-11T12:58:00Z

The best ideas are rhythmic ones, even when the extramusical element remains frustratingly obscure. Interzone ? review 2010-11-23T22:00:00Z

There are hints here, too, tantalizing but frustrating, of books Orwell had in mind but never got to write. Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z

When people are drunk, it can get very frustrating. Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

As a result, “The Last Thing Mary Saw” is as surprising as it is frustrating. ‘The Last Thing Mary Saw’ Review: God Is Always Watching 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

This largely co-op outing proves glitchy and frustrating, with the twin leads of Kirk and Spock frequently tripping over or blocking each other. Star Trek – review 2013-05-14T23:01:01Z

To feel that safe and feel you can be yourself—we all have our stuff, and it can be frustrating when you can’t harness it on demand. Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer on Hollywood, Female Directors and Their New Movie 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

“So, the response was still frustrating,” the woman concluded. Air Canada blasted for allegedly asking girl, 12, to remove hijab before boarding 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the whole evening felt like a thumbnail sketch — a signature on a portrait left frustratingly behind a curtain. Ryan Adams at 9:30 Club: Performer and his fans find a comfort zone in D.C. show

It also describes the memoir’s recursive style, which an impatient reader may find frustrating. How Rebecca Solnit Found Her Voice 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mr Karzai personally abhorred corruption and angered his relatives by frustrating their attempts to obtain government contracts and jobs. Karzai Inc 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Welcome to the often fascinating, occasionally frustrating, sometimes cursed rabbit hole known as the Wikipedia “personal life” entry. Obsessed with Wikipedia ‘personal life’ entries? You’re not alone. 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

It’s also frustrating, because I see all there is to do.” Hard Work of Keeping City Ballet?s Costumes Fresh 2010-06-14T22:59:00Z

But the orchestra sticks frustratingly to the most tried and true. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

I was wondering if it's at all frustrating to build a team, everyone is working well together, then you lose players? "Last Chance U" basketball coach on DeShaun, Joe and the "hard as hell" grind of junior college ball 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

The New Age jargon may put off some viewers, but Mr. Ferrante proves to be a compelling on-screen presence: at once honest and manipulative, hopeful and frustrating. The Bay Citizen: Showcases for Locally Made Documentaries 2010-10-08T05:05:00Z

But that very invisibility is frustrating, because one's brain can't necessarily define them clearly at first. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

But it has taken to coming here with repertoire chestnuts, worn smooth with familiarity, which is frustrating given the wealth of orchestral music to choose from. Philadelphians reliably glorious in all-too-reliable repertory 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

Appearing first as a titled man, the character suddenly becomes a woman — who later faces a comparatively frustrating life on the other side of gender politics. Genre-Blurring, Politically Charged Opera Wins Top Music Prize 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

I walked by many desperate cages; it was frustrating and upsetting. You changed me: I rescued my dog Augusta, but really she rescued me 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

The result is a frustratingly superficial look at a smart, driven and sometimes frightened young man who always felt as though he were “racing against time.” Movie Review: ?Better Than Something,? a Documentary About Jay Reatard 2012-03-02T01:38:40Z

Jonathan Cape; 305 pages; £25 A meditation on the transitory and frustrating essence of light, as studied by poets, painters and scientists, by our obituaries editor. What we wrote... 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The New York Times notably and strangely endorsed both Warren and Klobuchar as the best candidates of the current field, which was frustrating. Warren fought back at the media erasure that felled other candidates by stealing Bloomberg's show 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Despite the action verb in the book title, this brother and sister are fascinatingly, and often frustratingly, inert. When the Family Falls Apart 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Given the D.C. traffic, for many people the morning commute is the most frustrating part of the day. Just Asking: Armando Trull, WAMU’s mouth of the morning

“What Belongs to You,” Mr. Greenwell’s debut novel, is a lyrical look at the frustrating, irrational and obsessive love between an American teacher in Bulgaria and a local hustler. Around Town for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

All the Way captures him in all of his frustrating complexity, and his contradictory nature allows his meaning to ebb and flow with time. Why is Lyndon B Johnson suddenly prevalent in pop culture? 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Eventually, it works — all the bases have been covered — but it can be a frustrating experience. Save My Blockbuster! 2013-06-28T16:14:07Z

“I’m frustrated and I know this is frustrating for you, too. As soon as I learn more, we will make a determination based on what is found out.” Afton Williamson, a Star of ‘The Rookie,’ Says She Was Sexually Harassed and Bullied 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

In an email on Sunday morning, Mr. Soderbergh called the turnout “certainly frustrating,” but he vowed to try again with his next film. ‘Hitman’s Bodyguard’ is No. 1, as ‘Logan Lucky’ Disappoints 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

That this must be frustrating to the other person? ‘Like a Romance’: Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht’s Spring Fling Onstage 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

The play does not settle the question: Indeed, after a frustratingly draggy final section, “Small Room” concludes without any closure. Review | Spooky Action Theatre’s ‘Small Room’ for patient fans of the offbeat 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

For about a dozen frustrating years, he struggled to land roles, appearing in fringe films and performing in dinner theater. Dean Stockwell, Child Actor Turned ‘Quantum Leap’ Star, Dies at 85 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

For me, the most frustrating misstep was the use of video. Review: Passion Fruit Dance Company Brings the Club to the Stage 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating but most people look at the theatre, music and comedy listings, and ignore the dance. New Art Club's ballet of belly laughs 2010-07-26T21:00:00Z

In these middle sections, the stop-start nature of the narrative becomes particularly frustrating. A War Correspondent Comes Home, Bringing War With Her 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

She navigated the hearing with her signature composure, frustrating some congressmen with her strict adherence to the Planned Parenthood script. The abortion rights movement is bolder than it’s been in years. That’s Cecile Richards’s plan. 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Kwon’s crisp, poetic style conveys events that feel lightly obscured by fog, just enough to be disorienting without being frustrating. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

For the rest of their careers—glorious in Dietrich’s case, but less in movies than in life; frustrated and frustrating for Sternberg—their shared work marked an unsurpassable summit. The Front Row: Marlene Dietrich in “Dishonored” 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

So I can see where, if there’s a clash between the expectations and the actual book, that always gets frustrating. How Tana French Inhabits the Minds of Her Detectives 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

The sound projection, because there was a guitarist and pianist, was not great and I just found it frustrating not to see - particularly what the pianist was doing. Composer of the Week marks 70 years 2013-08-02T07:21:46Z

But for visiting performers caught in the middle of the latest surge, the experience has been frustrating. Taiwan Was a Covid Haven for Performers. Then Cases Flared. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

When you're young, the fear of being the subject of gossip is paralysingly real, a frightening and frustrating sensation evoked by Guided By Voices in Teenage FBI. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z

Although it may be frustrating to learn that you can’t blame extra pounds on your metabolism, it also offers an opportunity to dig deeper and learn more about your weight. Perspective | Why scientists now say you can’t blame midlife weight gain on a slow metabolism 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The film’s pacing often matches that static sensation, to a frustrating degree. ‘The Pink Cloud’ Review: Love in Lockdown 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Bigsby said the letters are full of references to writing - but are frustratingly short on detail. Letters reveal human side of JD Salinger 2011-01-27T00:16:46Z

Morison made her film debut in 1939’s Persons in Hiding, but she often found her options in the studio system frustrating. Patricia Morison, star of Broadway and Hollywood, dies aged 103 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

What limits were frustrating you about the typical rock-band sound palette, and how did you decide where to go next? The Airborne Toxic Event renovates, recharges on 'Dope Machines' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

I saw this show in its initial presentation at the Pompidou, and although it looks great here in New York, it is smaller, for sensible reasons and frustrating ones. Flying Goats and Black Squares, Charging Into the Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

What’s most exciting about the trailer — or frustrating, depending on your point of view — is the lack of footage from the upcoming episode. The Day of the Doctor Trailer: Doctor Who To Celebrate 50th Birthday With Special Episode 2013-10-21T15:58:24Z

For all its subtext about identity and London’s social fabric, “Dreams of a Life” leaves too many blanks and is ultimately more frustrating than rewarding. Movie Review: ‘Dreams of a Life’ Looks at Joyce Vincent 2012-08-02T20:52:19Z

Yet because much of the rest of the story is so underdeveloped — notably Claire’s intimate life with her frustratingly generic children — the character overwhelms everything, including the fragile realism. ‘Who You Think I Am’ Review: A Woman of Feeling, in Bed and Out 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

What is less present, sometimes frustratingly so, are ways to imagine a different future. Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

At the time, I found her stuff very frustrating. Q&A: Writing the New 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' 2010-04-19T09:05:00Z

It looks as if you spent many frustrating hours on the phone with Travelocity and Delta, trying to get an immediate resolution. Why won’t travel insurance cover my flight cancellation? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

“The last 20, 25 years have been very, very frustrating,” Mr. McKinnon said at the coffee shop. The Annals of Flannel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“It can be a frustrating and isolating experience, allowing someone else to determine the direction I’m going and the rate of speed I can travel. The pusher is in charge,” Fox writes. When It Comes to Living With Uncertainty, Michael J. Fox Is a Pro 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

There is a chapter devoted to Stern’s most frustrating non-get, Hillary Clinton, as well as 11 excerpts from interviews with Donald Trump, a frequent guest long before he entered the White House. Meet the new Howard Stern. He’d like to make amends for the old Howard Stern. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

On a moral level, I’m pretty sure the answer is “some of both” or “it depends,” which is frustrating. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The work ethic of the arts industries is, by necessity, both notoriously "flexible" and demanding; it is what is thrilling and frustrating about the profession. Women in theatre: let's get rid of the equality myth 2011-07-18T13:17:05Z

This is a story of many acts: anguished, frustrating, uplifting and sometimes comical. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Not only is this frustrating, but it hurts. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: It’s nature over nurture when it comes to changing your mother 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The situation has been frustrating for those still in the trenches at MGM. Hunt for MGM CEO hits snag 2010-06-16T05:13:00Z

I didn’t mind — this was a frustrating concert. Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

The two actors later paired for the ill-fated Big Trouble, which Bergman walked away from as director, to be replaced by Cassavetes — his last, most frustrating gig behind the camera. Peter Falk: From Lt. Columbo to Wings of Desire and Princess Bride 2011-06-25T05:45:00Z

That’s why the film’s reductive presentation of it is all the more disheartening and frustrating. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

It's frustrating, then, that the action stumbles only when it turns its focus toward heaven. 'A.D. the Bible Continues' a Sunday school lesson in your den 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Do you find that gratifying or frustrating, that it's so easy to achieve similar results using what was formerly a more complicated process?  John Oswald on Plunderphonics, "Grayfolded" and audio collage 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Also, so many details of her story seem frustratingly buried. Ina Ray Hutton: the forgotten female star of 1930s jazz 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z

Playing the city’s courses during the summer can be frustrating, because, even though fourteen courses sounds like a lot to a non-golfer, it’s actually nowhere near enough for a city the size of New York. The Joys of Golf, No Matter the Weather or the President 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

We move on to less frustrating topics: how chuffed he is that his two eldest kids are musicians. Paul Weller: National treasure 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

This has been a frustrating season to watch – and write about, at times – but your enthusiasm has certainly helped me to soldier on. True Detective: season two, episode eight recap – Omega Station 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s a dream come true for any writer, so to not be able to fully engage in everything to do with the book is frustrating.” ‘The Revenant’ Author Michael Punke Has a Day Job 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

All that money, all that youth, and yet he seems frustratingly detached from commenting on it. The Oscars: the hot tips from those in the know 2011-02-20T00:05:33Z

But the orchestra’s playing lacked clarity and bite, making the work’s theme-and-variations structure frustratingly difficult to discern. Music Review | American Symphony Orchestra: Loosening the Reins on Composers After Stalin 2010-03-01T05:50:00Z

“It’s not the quality of these performances that’s frustrating; it’s the default nature of the selections,” Mr. Harris wrote. Week 1: 'Selma Rises' and Lack of Actress Contenders Rankles 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

And the movie ends on what's either a frustrating or brilliant note: A literal cliffhanger. The 25 Best Heist Movies 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

These things are never personal, but straight friends whose chosen family structures are supported and encouraged rarely recognize how frustrating it is for someone different to experience them as part of an aggregate power structure. Thirtysomething, bisexual, single and satisfied: Your breeder friends can’t bare it 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Because for women, especially women of color, “I tried so hard” is a frustratingly familiar refrain, particularly when paired with “it still wasn’t good enough, and you still don’t fit in.” What ‘Harry & Meghan’ Still Doesn’t Say About Race 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Many of these plant varieties were the progeny of his frustrating, pre-internet experiments in cross-pollination. Out of the Desert, a Rare Fruit Garden and a Lasting Legacy 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

It's still an imperfect, often scary and frustrating process for doctors, researchers and patients. I was the new Nobel Prize winner’s lab rat 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

News of the Omicron variant was particularly frustrating, he said, because the venue they booked for their wedding on Jan. 15 would not allow them to cancel or postpone and still get their money back. Ready to Get Married Already? Some Couples Face Postponement Fatigue 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Change in Hollywood, in terms of portrayal of minorities, is a long, frustrating process. Utkarsh Ambudkar on his "revolutionary" love interest role in "Brittany Runs a Marathon" 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

It is frustrating to me and, I will presumptuously say, most other African-Americans or people of color in my industry. Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Follett offers a particularly impressive portrait of the civil rights era and of the frustratingly slow struggle for basic human freedoms. ‘Edge of Eternity,’ the final installment in Ken Follett’s sweeping trilogy

The frustrating end was encapsulated with about 15 seconds left to play in overtime. Northwestern loses to Minnesota in Big Ten 2012-03-09T00:46:00Z

“Regarding the project, what we’re facing, the city is not a fine partner. Their objective isn’t to preserve open space or provide trail access for the public and that can be frustrating.” The Fight for Franklin Canyon 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

And the Russians found it quite frustrating because they often didn’t understand what was going on, because they didn’t speak any English. Why Oscar-Winning Director Kevin Macdonald Decided to Make a Submarine Thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The decision not to dwell on the subjects is especially frustrating considering what happened in Tultepec last December, after filming, when an explosion at Mexico’s largest fireworks emporium killed dozens. Review: In ‘Brimstone & Glory,’ Passions Blaze at a Fireworks Festival 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

To keep your hands off of it must be extremely frustrating. 2010-01-29T03:53:00Z

For Ms. Nusbaum, the experience of being delayed at the Israeli border for nearly five hours when she tried to cross from Jordan into the West Bank was both frustrating and enlightening. More Students Choose a Junior-Year Abroad in the Mideast 2010-08-06T22:00:00Z

Which is why going backwards in time now feels so frustrating. The “Baby It’s Cold Outside” fight is back — but why?! 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

"A lot of Gus was frustrating to me," Hanks said during a recent sit-down at his publicist's office in Beverly Hills. Colin Hanks hopes to finally break Mr. Nice Guy mold with 'Fargo' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

I let her mark particularly bad or frustrating occasions with particularly colorful words. Why I Let My 8-Year-Old Use Swear Words 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

But she seemed cautious, and that reticence was sometimes frustrating. Review: A Soaring Soprano Helps Bel Canto at Caramoor Say Farewell 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

"I find it immensely frustrating when a playwright says proudly, 'This play presents no answers but asks lots of questions'," Owen says. Gary Owen: Bridgend and beyond 2010-04-07T20:45:00Z

Obama agreed to dispatch an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan only after months of study that many in the military found frustrating. White House summons US general to explain himself 2010-06-22T12:12:00Z

“Obviously it’s been a frustrating year, but at the same time, I’ve always been confident in myself, confident to help the team.” Guzan pushes struggles aside, puts focus on starting for US 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

She paces circles around her own mind, a provocative but ultimately frustrating place, not a staging area from which to launch useful action. A Debut Novel With Prose as Lively as Its Heroine’s Mind 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Lawrence was unpredictable and unconventional enough to be often frustrating to those around him but fascinating to the rest of us, who may observe his antics at a safe distance. Review | ‘Burning Man’ presents D.H. Lawrence in all his flawed brilliance 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

It is so frustrating to see a pupil who has been given last chance after last chance repeatedly throw those chances away. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z

It was frustrating at first, but then she started confiding in me about things that were bothering her. I’ve fallen in love with a colleague – but I’m married with children 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

After a frustrating day spent reading the news online, she would begin to write. From ‘The Simpsons’ to ‘The Twilight Zone.’ And Now, Trump. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

Parker clearly shares this opinion, which leads to a frustrating disinclination to explore the nature of these collaborations beyond such passing comments as “dramatic composition was an eminently social activity for Brecht.” Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

And a little frustrating, because I wanted my work to stand on its own. "My Dark Vanessa" author: Canceling Nabokov's "Lolita" is "missing the point" of society's problem 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

But no matter how exquisite Little Dragon's production skills, how sophisticated Nagano's tones, Ritual Union remains a frustrating record as well as a good one. Little Dragon: Ritual Union ? review 2011-07-16T23:05:27Z

The spine of "Poser," so to speak, is Dederer's practice of yoga, a healing, yet often frustrating pastime taken up when her back rebelled against the strain of toting a sturdy baby around every day. 'Poser': Yoga as metaphor for earnest young parents seeking to do right 2010-12-29T23:02:04Z

Heiden’s experience was echoed by many others who used words like “exhausting” and “frustrating” to describe an evening of straining to follow along with the action onstage. ‘Matilda’ complaints reflect Kennedy Center’s acoustic issues 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

For audiences, they are most often a frustrating experience: the last vestiges of a social function that was once the predominant purpose of an evening at the opera or the music hall. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z

Pekar, opinionated and curmudgeonly, was often the most frustrating and aggravating character to appear in his books. Harvey Pekar obituary 2010-07-13T12:56:00Z

You have to shoot them and set up rigs and lights, and that part of it is very frustrating. Ryan Gosling on the violence of femininity 2011-05-23T17:01:00Z

Though the rest of that Brooklyn indie-pop trio’s self-titled debut is an earthier set of fables about lost loves and frustrating careers, anchored in feathery guitars that turn torrid in a flash. Pop and Rock Listings for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-30T23:46:58Z

Yet his father, he says, always found it frustrating that his grandfather was quite so silent. How my family’s history in London hid a revolutionary Russian secret 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Unlike my frustrating publishing rejections and erratic contract assignments, this gig was steady: I showed up, they paid me. A Zoom of one's own: Leaving my job helped my mental health — and my mission 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

It’s a profoundly frustrating movie, which is to say that it’s an authentic expression of profound frustration. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ambitious, torpid, wildly overlong and frustratingly underdeveloped, “Palm Trees” follows Lea as she falls for Tom, who turns out to be as awful — and as much a near-parody of villainy — as his clichéd smooth talk. ‘Palm Trees and Power Lines’ Review: A Teen’s Cautionary Tale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

But that may alienate viewers who find the resulting slow burn frustrating, cold and without payoff. The Americans Watch: The Evil Empire Strikes Home 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

This is good because you get a huge amount of creative freedom, but bad because indies are frustratingly hard to actually get made. Daniel Radcliffe on Why He Loves When People Make Fun of Him 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The contradiction in that statement is why this pretty film is also a frustrating one. Review: In ‘Argentina,’ a Call to Save Traditions 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

And they never had an answer, which was frustrating. Jarvis Cocker Keeps Hearing That Voice 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

So it was frustrating that every attempt to settle down put a settled feeling further out of reach. My generation, living on the road 2014-04-20T23:59:00Z

It’s frustrating to read about people experiencing abuse and it’s a natural human response to offer advice. 10 common comments on feminist blogposts – and my responses 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

What makes the Murray silence so frustrating is how easy it is to track him. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

He constantly finds excuses to not try, and it's really frustrating and draining. Perspective | How do I teach my teen to not give up? 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

Here’s a foolproof method for triggering a futile, frustrating argument with your partner, best friend, parent, child – anyone, really. How to pick (and stop) an argument 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

It occurs to me that what she’s describing is a kind of utopian incrementalism: a poetic inversion of the frustrating slowness the city brings to its own progress on huge projects like TARP. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z

But it’s slightly frustrating, because we go in, and we hadn’t played those songs for a while. Chrissie Hynde, holding out for the independents 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Yet there is something a little frustrating about a performance where every inflection, every gesture comes across as the calculated result of a lengthy thought process. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The most frustrating part about it is that for a lot of people, it calls into question why you were chosen and why you were you reached the level of success that you did. Joel Kim Booster on his radically transparent comedy, critiques and "the Bechdel test of it all" 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

Her album was about how fulfilling, if frustrating, it is to be in a long-term monogamous relationship. Beyoncé's "Ring Off" is a sweet tribute to her mother 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

On the subject of the Sony awards, it's equally predictable and frustrating when you consider the nominations an overview of what British radio currently looks like. Call Clegg – radio review 2013-05-10T05:59:04Z

What’s frustrating is that there are all of these oppressive laws going into effect, and you don’t know what to do. “It’s really terrifying”: Lizz Winstead on stealth antiabortion laws and fighting politicians in “their last grasp of hanging on to unearned power” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Featuring a wonderfully dry sense of humour, but also a tendency for a frustrating lack of explanation in some of its puzzles, Sticker Star is a highly engaging RPG-lite. Paper Mario Sticker Star – review 2012-12-08T00:05:40Z

“I see that this makes small businesses successful. It’s kind of frustrating, especially where we are right now with the economies of rural America, not to see the benefits.” Making cheese or jam? A USDA program to pay farmers more for their crops faces cuts—again 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

The below video, from the Idaho Statesman, is beyond frustrating. New creationism museum in Boise says Noah brought baby dinos aboard the ark 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

She's also in a frustrating emotional struggle with her mother, who lives vicariously through the movies, film magazines, Hollywood stars and their on-screen characters. Dale Kushner's debut is '50s coming-of-age tale 2013-05-13T15:57:08Z

A long, long time ago — way back in the mid-1990s — when I was living in Southeast Asia, getting around the region was a frustrating process. Short Hops, Low Fares, Around Asia 2010-03-17T03:01:00Z

Walker, captivatingly raw, makes Star both charming and frustrating in her aloofness. ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’ Review: Secret Soul Mates 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

Though this was a great night for Mr. Nézet-Séguin and the Met, it was also somewhat frustrating. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads a Revelatory ‘Turandot’ 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

The most frustrating element of the show is that despite a last-minute sort-of plot twist, Regina mostly serves as an unwitting wedge between the rookies. Review: ‘A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet’ Is Missing a Few Notes 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

The women told the company that shopping for healthful food was a frustrating and expensive exercise, recalled Jack Sinclair, the former vice president for the grocery division of Wal-Mart U.S. A healthful legacy: Michelle Obama looks to the future of ‘Let’s Move’ 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Girard’s ultimately frustrating production, the “ghost factor” does come through, but he’s not content to stop there. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The writers transform their boredom into mockery and judgment as they circle around a tantalizing, perhaps frustrating question. Review: In ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie, Sex Is a Knotty Business 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

So why does this celebration prove interesting rather than frustrating? Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z

It was frustrating in the moment as a fan, when they would skip seasons – it would seem to be taking so long to unfold. ArtsBeat: Jennifer Egan Talks TV Plans for 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' 2011-04-21T16:26:04Z

Fletcher’s divided conscience, like Holiday’s activism, carries intriguing dramatic and historical potential, but like nearly everything else in this feverish, frustrating movie, the political themes are handled with maximal melodrama and minimal clarity. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

The result is a fascinating and sometimes frustrating hybrid, a film that tries both to transcend and to exploit its genre. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“It’s frustrating, we’re both quite practical – the hardest part is the uncertainty.” 'I never imagined it would be so long': the couples kept apart by Covid rules 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

All of this is often riveting, but it can be frustrating too, because “Texas Blood” is more a box of parts than a smoothly cresting narrative. An Unconventional History of Texas, From a Writer With the State in His Veins 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

It is frustrating in a great way, because that's what happens! “White Lotus” star bids Aloha to a shocking finale: “Privileged, rich people get away with stuff” 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

“I think if we see more cases of the new variant, we’ll all wear it more. It’s just frustrating.” Hold on to Your Masks 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

The frustrating thing for us is that it felt like the ingredients were there. Masked Lawman Stumbles at the Gate 2013-07-07T19:43:07Z

Granted, some of this Title:Point company production, at the Brick Theater, about a certain kind of mythological American noir is frustratingly cryptic, and some sections extend their welcome way too long. ‘Sleeping Car Porters’ Review: Billy the Kid Meets the Zodiac Killer 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

And that's the way it went down: he wanted to back out and, as frustrating as it was, I didn't really get angry because I knew he would come round. James Gandolfini remembered by The Sopranos creator David Chase 2013-06-26T17:47:50Z

The polarity of film is frustrating for me. Lisa Joy on ‘Reminiscence,’ ‘Westworld’ and the Lure of Techno-Noir 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

By suppressing Wahlberg's more typical sparkling unpredictability, this new reading of the character recasts him into someone more frustrating than free. 'The Gambler' comes up short by failing to go all in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

The frustrating irony is that these are the exact sort of difficult and complicated issues artists often interrogate through film. Analysis | The recipe for an Oscars’ best picture nod includes an infusion of Hollywood love 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Parmar is certainly true to her sources in creating characters who are frustratingly blind to their own privileged position and the narrowness of their intellectual world. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

“It’s just so frustrating when you see how rigged the game is,” he tells The Associated Press. One half of the ‘Property Brothers’ praises solar in doc 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

The production offers headsets for English translations, a laudable effort but a frustrating way to experience the show. Spanish-Language ‘Vagina Monologues’ at Westside Theater 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

We've faced frustrating research about male hiring managers and mentors turning away women workers, for fear of "temptation" and ruin. Despite male hysteria, #MeToo didn't “go too far” — it hasn't gone far enough 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

At times it's unimaginably harrowing, at others, inspirational, if frustratingly sketchy. This week's new films 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

It becomes even more frustrating when they don’t seem motivated to fix any of their own problems — and dismiss your advice when you try to help. The Science of Dealing With People You Hate 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

What’s really frustrating is that after the meal they only thank my husband — and never me! Just So We’re Clear: I’m Also Paying the Bill 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

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