John Dickerson

When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.

American Journalist

Ron Williams

Much of a leader's responsibility in creating a positive, high-performance culture is setting the right tone and acting on it consistently. That day-to-day execution - the tenor and tone - really makes the difference. One deviation - one exasperating meeting - and the CEO legitimizes bad behavior.

American Businessman

Lynne Ramsay

My brother and my mother had a really difficult relationship; he would exasperate her to death but she'd always be there for him, she always loved him even if she didn't like him at the moment.

Scottish Director

Oscar Wilde

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

Irish Poet

Howard Hodgkin

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?

British Artist

Samantha Harvey

Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

English Author

John Updike

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

American Novelist

Noel Coward

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

English Playwright

Rae Carson

I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.

American Writer

Donald Judd

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.

American Artist

Exasperate means more than 'annoy'; it suggests deep frustration, often with someone's behavior.

Intensity Scale

Using 'exasperate' can imply that you're on the verge of losing your patience.

Emotional Reaction

The word 'exasperate' is often used for repeated actions that frustrate over time.

Specific Triggers

'Exasperate' suggests taking a problem to a more intense, sometimes unbearable level.

Problem Escalation

Exasperating a situation means making noticeable negative progress or change.

Negative Improvement

 without taking a breath. And every single time I failed, I had to start over. And I failed a lot. By the end, I got it, but when I got out of the pool, I was exasperated and tired and annoyed, and I said, "Why are we doing breath-holding exercises?" And my coach looked me at me, and he said, "Mellody,

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 exasperate it don't you ever do anything else but as soon as I said it I realized they were doing something else they were sitting in close proximity and doing the human equivalent of grooming laughing and talking and strengthening their bond

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 tim is exasperated he hears the explosion and sees the smoke he assumes the torpedo has struck home but still the vessel stays afloat after tim fired four torpedoes he had to reconsider a situation because

The Sinking of the SS...

 The wish was granted, and Yamraj rode on. But still Savitri’s footsteps echoed behind him. Exasperated, the God granted her a second wish.

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