Chagrin seems to me to have nothing to do with raging ambition, though the connection may be clear if you read the sentence in context. |
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New Hydra air-cooled circulator from IMS, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, can both heat and cool molds without external water, sewer, and cooling tower costs. |
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Imagine my surprise and chagrin when I realised that I could not hear any music above the din of the rattly old Northern Line train. |
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Much to my chagrin no such indication appeared, and I handed the candy back to my daughter. |
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To Eliza's chagrin, she was sent to the office to learn secretarial skills. |
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She says she always dreamed of becoming an actress but, to her chagrin, opportunity and ambition didn't seem to go hand in hand. |
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Partick's chagrin, he suggests, might also fail to take into account a number of factors at work in these acquisitions. |
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Predictions are hazardous business, as all poll pundits will have realised to their chagrin this month. |
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I think, you know, I've been very open in the past, and a little bit to my own chagrin. |
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At the mention of Vannington, the look changed to chagrin and embarrassment. |
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The pigeons, probably well used to such manoeuvres, took off timely, to the chagrin of their destructors. |
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To the chagrin of his coworkers, Pace commits to delivering 40 high-priced cars to a South American gangster with only a few days to spare. |
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Now it is becoming a festival of Mammon, much to the chagrin of the religious. |
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But to Thayer's chagrin, the movie meets with a chilly reception from critics and public alike. |
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Imagine my amazement and chagrin when I saw the statue and surroundings in such a state of neglect. |
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Much to my horror and chagrin, I had neglected to follow this instruction, and before long found myself with a radio in my hotel room. |
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To my chagrin, I notice that the two sets of documents are cross-referenced. |
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The president has expressed his support for amnesty on some occasions for illegals, much to the chagrin of many in the party. |
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Much her chagrin she saw that through the ravages of time it was pitted with holes, some small others rather large. |
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And to the chagrin of Danish film boosters and patriots, they all turned out to be relative flops. |
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A lamp post intervened much to the amusement of the watching public and chagrin of the cameraman. |
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On one occasion I watched the ball skittle all the bowls much to the chagrin of the bowlers. |
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Imagine the chagrin of a young team that has spent several practices learning a conventional offensive play only to meet this pattern. |
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Finding the strict regime unnecessarily repressive on the kids, he drafts them into a choir, much to the chagrin of the tyrannical head teacher. |
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In the early 1920s, Mounties not only made the arrests but also, to the chagrin of some lawyers seeking work, prosecuted cases. |
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It's been nice, though to my chagrin not a single multinational corporation has offered me an endorsement deal of any kind. |
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Lars taught me to skip rocks, and soon I was better than he was, much to his chagrin. |
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In the face of your inconsideration or unkindness, I may experience pain, indignation, chagrin, shame, annoyance, bashfulness and more besides. |
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Carol, to her deep chagrin, has no job, yet, and proves like a bear with a sore head until she finds one. |
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But here's the view from the other side, from someone who's smarter, and to my chagrin, better at snotty remarks, than me. |
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Imagine what chagrin we can bring to this nation if we were to sneer or giggle at a visiting diplomat from say Nigeria or India! |
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But, despite my chagrin at what I regard as a rip-off, I have booked two tickets. |
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However, much to Dare's chagrin, the faculty did nothing to oppose Halpern's position. |
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To his embarrassment and chagrin, not one of these claims has turned out to be true. |
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He coughed up his Bickfords and turned purple with a mixture of shame and chagrin. |
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Too late, to his chagrin, not to mention embarrassment, he found that he had rather overdone it, and could not get near him. |
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The long-awaited breakup will ensue, to the embarrassment and chagrin of many. |
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I realised, with some chagrin, that for Hilberg the conclusion was implicit in the sequence, and he had trusted me to see it. |
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Much to my chagrin, we drove past Skip's without stopping for an eye-opener. |
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Much to the chagrin of my room-mates, come election time I will roam around extolling the necessity of voting with the zeal of a religious fanatic. |
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To their chagrin, neutral observers have questioned the adequacy of due process in these cases. |
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He made little secret of his ambition to become the next prime minister, much to the chagrin of Netanyahu. |
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Samaras saw me and, to the chagrin of security, beckoned me just before the start. |
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And much to the chagrin of some in the Lone Star State, a lot of people seem to be buying it. |
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To the chagrin of these 40 courageous online petitioners and their hoops-hungry brethren, March Madness is not a national holiday. |
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She had gained five pounds over the winter, much to her chagrin. |
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Morgan reviewed extensive longitudinal studies and other research and found, to the chagrin of adoption opponents, that outcomes for adopted children are good. |
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To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland. |
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I too, much to my chagrin, fell prey to the seductions of the city. |
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Imagine my chagrin when, after a full-price offer, I was turned down. |
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Much to our chagrin, someone put out a bootleg recorded at rehearsals. |
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Pauline and David were great picture takers, invite them to a gathering and they were sure to bring their camera, much to the chagrin of the camera-shy. |
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His hard-headedness was also in evidence when the Tour's television contract was awarded to Sky, much to the chagrin of the terrestrial traditionalists. |
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Much to their chagrin, Kerry never went over his allotted time. |
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To his chagrin, he has come up with the evidence to prove him wrong. |
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He has adopted the one by the radiator, much to Tess's chagrin. |
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Poor Kate was so chop-fallen, she looked like a convicted criminal, who would gladly have hid herself, to conceal her mortified pride and deep chagrin. |
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To her chagrin, Nook burst out in peals of unrestrained mirth. |
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Much to my chagrin, it turned out to be tough field corn that Zambians eat as a fresh vegetable, but more commonly grind into meal or flour for cooking. |
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Much to your chagrin, you fall through the trapdoor of never-used warranties that have milked you for thousands of your hard-earned dollars. |
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For many years now, our student population has been ghettoised in various corners of the city, often to the chagrin of some locals. |
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Dim-witted leading man Martin tries to remember his lines to the chagrin of long-suffering soundman Preston. |
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Attempts were made to draft such levies, much to the chagrin of the militia commanders. |
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To the chagrin of his overbearing teacup Chihuahua, Poncho, Brendan Kelly made time for me in order to answer some burning questions. |
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He had little use for amenities that tend to grow up around the rear echelon, much to the chagrin of a few of his ISAF colleagues. |
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Hence his chagrin at the fact that the conceptual break-through that made the thermonuclear weapon possible has always been attributed to him and Stanislaw Ulam jointly. |
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