Instead, I waited patiently for the impatient truck driver behind her to give her a blast on his air horn. |
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After openly avowing that his soul was bound with hers, William could not but be impatient with Elizabeth for refusing to make up her mind. |
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Now, I was feeling somewhat nervous, and I could sense her becoming impatient with my mouse-like personality. |
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Capt. Julius Boyd is a supply officer for an impatient and under-equipped army. |
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I guess I can't blame him for being impatient, if indeed he is and not simply excited. |
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He asked me with an impolite, almost impatient lilt, as he slackly sat himself upon a tree-stump, violin in hand, hand upon knee. |
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Venezuela owed about sixty-two million bolivars to an impatient consortium headed by Great Britain and Germany. |
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The Brazilian fans' samba rhythms may be loose, but when it comes to their national team, they are incredibly high-strung and impatient. |
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Airen was becoming angry and impatient with Bowen, and began to regret telling him the story. |
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The car horn beeped, signaling that my father was getting extremely impatient. |
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Marion was impatient for success and the wealth that she missed so desperately. |
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Three overs later he was also gone, undone by an impatient waft at an innocuous delivery from White that took the top edge. |
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Now many of you will say that he deserved it for being so impatient with the nice Sunday driver, I say tosh! |
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There were a couple of impatient car honks behind her, so she pulled up beside the curb. |
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Bet all this boiling rage and impatient was absent in the days of pony traps. |
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I became very impatient with the game before I had even gotten far into it. |
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Michelle was starting to get a little impatient waiting for Guy and stood up to get ready to leave. |
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He was never angry with any person, nor was he ever impatient with their human weaknesses. |
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We are not to strive, become impatient with ourselves, or grow angry or despairing when we find we are bound by some uncleanness. |
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I was brought back to reality by the honk of an impatient driver behind me. |
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Impatient for progress and impatient of toffs, we just have no sympathy for the fact that they can't get along with the world as it is changing. |
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The kids poke at their breakfasts, impatient for the sand and its myriad of playing opportunities. |
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In the meantime, those pushing for streamlining of the system are getting impatient for change. |
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Once my boss gave me the go-ahead on it, he was impatient for me to finish it. |
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If you're getting impatient for your 15 minutes of fame it's time to make your move. |
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Maybe they do need more time to deliver on better public services, but clearly the country is now impatient for improvements. |
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I guessed the fact that it was Friday was making her more impatient than usual. |
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Winston Churchill was always impatient for action and unable to understand the time the Generals took to prepare for action. |
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Even colleagues who have happily signed up to support his candidature admit that they are impatient for his real views to become clear. |
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It was hard to recover my form, but I'm not afraid to go into tackles any more and I feel great and impatient for the games to come. |
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Even those who felt liberated, however, are impatient for a government they can call their own. |
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Therefore, although impatient for the morning, I slept soundly and had no need of cheering dreams. |
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I grow impatient with the victims, the helpless, the colluders, the conformists, the irresponsible, and the pseudoinnocents. |
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Lino A. Graglia of the law school at the University of Texas is exceedingly impatient with such suggestions of symmetry between right and left. |
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Being an impatient sort, I added water to hurry it along, but I think this stopped the sugar obtaining that lovely golden caramel colour. |
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It wasn't long before one of his blue-eyed boys got impatient with the company despite its aggressive marketing focus. |
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This decline in the institution of the papacy made many members of the clergy impatient for reform. |
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But obviously any impatient pedestrian stepping out immediately on getting a green man only has himself to blame if he's clobbered. |
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He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde. |
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What he really wanted was an ice bag to soothe them, but he felt too impatient to fetch one. |
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His posture was impatient, peevish and annoyed that he had to answer to anyone. |
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I was impatient with her politics and repulsed by her unevolved narcissism. |
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At first Mahmut is caring but he soon grows impatient with his sometimes slow-witted relative and berates him for his sloppy habits. |
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Luckily pseudonymous kid is a great city kid, though we had a couple of bad mornings where late breakfasts made everyone cranky and impatient. |
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Are you feeling angry, impatient, or out of sorts every time you think of it? |
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It occasionally crashes on start-up, especially if one is impatient to get to the game and uses the intro escape, the space bar, too eagerly. |
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A piece of veiling fell across her face, and she brushed it away with an impatient hand. |
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This high-speed technician can be brusque and impatient with the indecisive, but he is a wonder to behold. |
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She looks back expressionlessly for a moment, looks back at the commanding stranger with his cruel, impatient face. |
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I am impatient with critics who find the musician devoid of expressiveness. |
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He's impatient with everything, annoyed at everything, and he always acts without thinking. |
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Like the rest of us, he is sometimes short and impatient with those around him, and he does not suffer fools gladly. |
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He becomes so impatient that later that night, he decides to pack some food and get the dogs himself. |
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Sometimes he sounds impatient with the necessary formality of the interview contract. |
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Just some people are too impatient to see it, or they don't take it for what it is. |
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He quickly tuned my own guitar, having grown impatient with my sitting there. |
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Suddenly you feel irritated with others and impatient with your own inability to do things as well or as quickly as you hoped. |
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He quickly grew impatient with it, though he could not speak to Isobel of why. |
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Last week's conflict was provoked by the arrogance of a Prime Minister impatient with the parliamentary process. |
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She had the impudence to get impatient, tapping her fingers on the desk, and tidying empty bags as she waited. |
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He had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot-dragging. |
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The shot fades out and comes back up the next morning with Kanzaki, asleep at his desk, being awoken by an impatient man holding a tux. |
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The revolving door that moved quite slowly contained a very impatient female, as she humorously tiptoed along with the door. |
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But the government cannot afford to be seen to be bounced into making a decision by an impatient management. |
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No one could get it to sound quite so annoyed and impatient apart from her. |
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There's not a lot of breathing space, and if there were we'd feel oddly impatient. |
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He understood best how to play the emotions, but his contemporaries are impatient with an aesthetic of art for art's sake. |
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By next spring that mood may grow a good deal more impatient to try out this promised new era of good governance sooner rather than later. |
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You are generous and giving to friends, loved ones and family but impatient of opposition. |
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It just made impatient about having to wait four weeks before being allowed to leave all my niggles and gripes behind. |
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It can make us rude, abrupt and impatient, but it can also inspire us to tremendous courage, bravery and leadership. |
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They didn't have it easy because I am quite an impatient person when it comes to training, I just want to do as much as I can. |
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Interspersed among these episodes, on the other side of the stage, we see a querulous old man confronting an impatient, offensive nurse. |
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Long acquaintance with her own profession makes her impatient with fantasists and phonies. |
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He says people dash out in front of traffic at the busy crossroads, impatient for the pedestrian green light to show. |
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Jason fumbled with his keys, laughing, until Bruce got impatient and took the keys away from him. |
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A good crowd of over 15000 grew more and more impatient as the game wore on and still the Amakhosi failed to break the deadlock. |
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The aspirations of these voters are far higher than other voters and hence, they are more demanding and impatient. |
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You think journalists are being more impatient with the outcome, waiting for denouement, than the public is? |
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Surprisingly, a plane's performance at slow airspeeds actually improves during ground effect, so don't be impatient to escape it. |
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But amid the roar of the new economy, he grew impatient and gradually dumped his blue chips. |
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Ministers now come and go, booed off the political stage by an impatient media if they fail to keep the pack amused. |
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A guy with sandy brown hair was sitting on one of the seats, his foot tapping in an impatient rhythm. |
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Afterwards, fuelled by chocolate Santa heads, I would sit in a nest of crumpled, torn wrapping paper, impatient for the new year to move quickly. |
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By the time he gets his DVDs on the shelf, impatient Bollywood trainspotters could have been watching them for days. |
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We all get impatient at times but most people have the maturity to hold this in check and would rather arrive late than risk not arriving at all. |
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See, I'm impatient at the best of times, and P frequently accuses me of wanting everything at once. |
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Jason had been in the kitchen for at least 5 minutes, and Sarah was getting a wee bit impatient. |
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The android made slow progress, and she was impatient, so she went outside to the truck and lowered its tailgate. |
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The dogs are starting to get a little impatient, but I'm glad to say they are not allowed off their leads until the first fox has been sighted. |
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He finally grew impatient with his temporizing and commenced military operations. |
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For such a normally quick tempered and impatient people they have shown themselves adepts at procrastination and brinkmanship. |
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In his more recent roles, though, the self-deprecating oafishness of his previous roles has been replaced by an impatient humourlessness. |
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Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise. |
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However, at 127 minutes and with a dialogue-heavy middle, some more impatient folk may be thumbing the scan forward button. |
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The best salespeople, meanwhile, were impatient and aggressive, and needed a lot of affirmation and encouragement. |
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Fiona is the first to admit that she is impatient when it comes to her home. |
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The gigantic hands of the clock watching over us up on the wall made me impatient. |
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Alarmed by the violence of her sorrow and by being a witness to it, but impatient with the sorrow itself, Ray was a poor pacifier. |
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I had to admit that I was starting to love that smirk but I was growing short-tempered and impatient. |
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I'm an impatient person, which can be a problem when you're trying to grow fruit and vegetables on an allotment. |
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Hardly anyone responded, put off by either the slightly intrusive questions or perhaps my impatient demand for a quick response. |
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Harried health workers picked through the impatient crowd, sorting out the sickest children. |
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He admits he is impatient by nature, but believes speed is of the essence. |
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It's the constancy of calls, the harassed and troubled nature of people on the phone, people are very impatient, they are very abusive of operators. |
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It takes a few listening sessions to bring out these hidden depths, but even impatient listeners will be caught by the catchiness of the melodies. |
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Prince Asgard stalked to Baron's chambers, angry and impatient. |
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The sharp-chinned, goateed 55-year-old is too impatient with black stagnation to mince words, though he softens his more provocative statements with a disarming chuckle. |
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I feel the impatient breath of my daughter's future on my neck as I nurse her before bed, her fist clenching my thumb until she grows sleepy and gradually lets go of me. |
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But the shutdown is something of a sideshow, provoked by impatient conservatives who wanted confrontation. |
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When it comes to being impatient, it seems men are much worse that women and are only prepared to hang on for three minutes before bogging off somewhere else. |
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And you have to be certain that you don't get impatient and smack the horse in the belly and ruin everything it was understanding up to that point. |
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He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity. |
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We grew impatient waiting for the next dose of reading matter. |
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At intervals I went to the front window to see if the sign had arrived, becoming more and more impatient as the morning passed and the afternoon ticked away. |
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Adrian drummed his fingers on his thighs, impatient and nervous. |
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Silence still came from the dark huntress and the king grew impatient. |
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He is a man of plain words, impatient with metaphor, fascinated by the structure of the land and evidence of early attempts to cultivate and civilise it. |
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His voice used to be sonorous, melodious, and relaxing to her most of the time, but lately, he nearly always sounded impatient, stressed, or angry. |
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The shorter man with black hair that was gelled back got impatient. |
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She adored Louise, but somehow at this crisis she could not help feeling impatient with the other woman's nervelessness and that devastating inertia. |
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Many of the contestants who have coughed up their proverbial blood, sweat and tears for the last few months see the decision in a much different, more impatient light. |
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I come on behalf of someone who's grown very impatient with your games. |
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Frankly, it was annoying and I was growing impatient with all the delays. |
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Letting out an impatient sigh, Jackie felt the world move in slow motion. |
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Although he's clearly still at the rules stage of building the structure into this young garden, Conran is impatient to get on with the fun of messing. |
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Sometimes I wish they could stay kids forever and at others I'm impatient for them to grow up and venture out into the world so I can see what they make of their lives. |
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My weaknesses are that I'm impatient, impulsive and slightly stubborn. |
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But being slightly edgy and impatient, he struck a bit too soon. |
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As readers, we are all a little bit more impatient to get to the point. |
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But I am still impatient for a medal and having missed out on competing in the individual competition this time I really want to get one in the relay. |
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Children who are able to delay gratification 15 times as long as their more impatient peers score 210 points higher on their sats. |
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I was impatient for the future to start happening right now. |
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The second question asked the interviewer to evaluate if the respondent appeared bored or impatient during the interview and was scored as a dichotomy. |
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They say photography is an addictive hobby, like golf, and once bitten by the shutterbug, one is always impatient to grab the camera and go for a shoot. |
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She makes an impatient gesture and hurries away on plimsoled feet. |
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But I think we can be a disconnected, impatient and lonely people. |
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It got burnt cos I was impatient and cranked the heat up a notch. |
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He was impulsive and impatient and wanted things done quickly. |
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He is transparently impatient with the traditional tribal leaders whose support has always been the bedrock of the monarchy. |
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Those who seemed most impatient of barbarisms, solecisms, and paralogisms in a sermon, seemed to easily tolerate them in their life and conversation. |
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No imperialists have even been so impatient for quick results. |
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Certainly, they are extremely impatient with the split the difference, triangulation strategies that have failed to win majorities for the last several election cycles. |
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Yes, a Plan B, one that places more stock in patient strategy as opposed to impatient action. |
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It is a product of an impatient society that prefers to crick its neck peering at an online news bulletin than wait until the morning for a paper. |
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She sensed that he was growing impatient and somewhat antsy. |
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Still, that message can be a hard sell in an impatient global village. |
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Lipstick had stroked a thin line across her lips, while delicately manicured and bejewelled fingers beat out an impatient rhythm on the menu cover. |
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As she slowly untied the bow and removed the tape from the wrapping paper, Charlotte grew impatient. |
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She remained always allergic to sanctimony, impatient with convention, honest to the point of impropriety. |
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She looks tired and impatient, lips drawn in a thin line of displeasure. |
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It was noon next day when he stood on the platform, the train breathing steam alongside like an impatient dragon or an old scholar puffing poppy heads. |
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I'd have the strident voices of Zulu women talking to each other across the width of a suburban street, and the rhythmic songs of strikers toyi-toying among impatient traffic. |
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Exhausted and in constant pain, she had to contend with vast, unfathomable personality changes that made her capricious, indecisive, impatient and intolerant. |
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Hawke had grown impatient with the General's indecision and he issued an ultimatum to Mordaunt. |
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Angry tenants impatient to reclaim pastures for tillage were illegally destroying enclosures. |
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The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. |
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The Germans assumed this was deliberate, and as the raids increased in frequency and scale the population grew impatient for measures of revenge. |
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Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead. |
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It took several weeks for the American agent to secure ships for their transportation home, and the men grew very impatient. |
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Steve had already spent half an hour waiting for the No 4 on the first leg of his journey so was understandably getting impatient by now. |
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Inwardly, Seven smiled, glad that the predictably irritable and impatient engineer had remerged from her cocoon. |
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As half in the deep window embrazure, Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call. |
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We must travel voiturier, which among many conveniences and suitablenesses has its plagues for an impatient spirit. |
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He used to be impatient of poems about budding flowers and zephyrous breezes. |
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Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller. |
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The board again became impatient and sacked Gray in 1985, replacing him with another Revie teammate, Billy Bremner. |
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His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on. |
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Edgar Hoover's pre-movie promotion reel about G-men and the FBI draws impatient boos. |
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They take over the first two rows of seats in front of the stage, impatient and grumblesome and muttering about having done this too many times before. |
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The bears are impatient to dine on ringed seals, their favorite food. |
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The mum and her 12-year-old were on a zebra crossing in College Road, Moseley, on January 21, when they were struck by an impatient motorist who overtook queuing traf-fic. |
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Rendering in so many words an event that intuitively should be referentially quite imageable, this sentence is likely to make some readers impatient. |
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Despite his relatively venerable age of 55, his son, John, Earl of Carrick, grew impatient and assumed the reins of government as Lord Lieutenant. |
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It was simply the name of a house opened as a rallying point for all the young and ardent artists impatient to show the modernity of their tendencies. |
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To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless. |
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However, the board became impatient for success and dismissed Armfield, replacing him with Jock Stein, who also lasted just 44 days before leaving to manage Scotland. |
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Impatient people don't sit still and grok the whole page, check out the archives and figure out what's up. |
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Impatient mothers began urging their charges to finish up, for heaven's sake, so they could get dressed. |
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Impatient and dismissive, punctuated by forced, faked little laughs and peevish demands for more airtime. |
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Impatient outer suburban types force the doors, setting the beeper off. |
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Impatient fingers untied the knots, pulling the blindfolds from my eyes. |
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