| His discomfiture was to prove the difference between the sides when the dramatic finale was played out. |
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| Tarapore and Kapila even had the discomfiture of being fined five penalty points for jumping the starter's gun in the second race. |
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| Recent years have seen an increase in private sector health care, to, inevitably, the relief of some and discomfiture of others. |
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| The Germans are less inclined than the French to gloat over Mr Cameron's discomfiture. |
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| For there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city the hand of God was very heavy there. |
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| There is a thin line between Schadenfreude, which I take to be measured satisfaction in the discomfiture of opponents, and the sin of morose delectation. |
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| So, the next time you feel discomfiture while being inside a building, the source of illness could be the poor design of the structure rather than anything else. |
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| The choice causes her some discomfiture, but all's well that ends well. |
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| It is also worth remembering Europeans' lasting discomfiture during operations in Kosovo at the random nature of US action taken without consultation with the Allies. |
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| The discomfiture, perhaps even revulsion, in the Shah of Iran's eyes, when I asked him if there was torture in Iran, intensifies as I ask the question three times, implicitly not accepting his answers. |
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| But his discomfiture has emboldened one of his rivals. |
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| Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast. |
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