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  • Chris was just being Chris, but it infuriated me.†   (source)
  • By all accounts, this was the moment that derailed him, leaving him feeling disgraced, infuriated, and bitterly jealous of officers.†   (source)
  • His tone of weary unconcern infuriated her.†   (source)
  • She had the infuriating iron-clad confidence of the true believer.†   (source)
  • But she maintained an infuriatingly disinterested expression, as if she hadn't the slightest awareness of the hunt that was underway.†   (source)
  • But the sight of Tony punching Wes in the face infuriated her.†   (source)
  • And tigers hiss and snarl, which, depending on the emotion behind it, sounds either like autumn leaves rustling on the ground, but a little more resonant, or, when it's an infuriated snarl, like a giant door with rusty hinges slowly opening—in both cases, utterly spinechilling.†   (source)
  • There was always something, some minor thing that would infuriate him, because no matter what she did to please him, no matter how thoroughly she submitted to his wants and demands, it wasn't enough.†   (source)
  • "I've got something to tell you," Harry began, but they were interrupted by Fred and George, who had looked in to congratulate Ron on infuriating Percy again.†   (source)
  • It was infuriating.†   (source)
  • The whole thing was infuriating.†   (source)
  • He spoke in his calmest, most reasonable voice, the voice which infuriated the twins.†   (source)
  • And the two of them looked at each other in that infuriating way guys look at each other sometimes, like they have this secret.†   (source)
  • She was crossing herself, repeatedly—a helpless, unthinking, Catholic gesture; it must have infuriated Owen.†   (source)
  • "Funny to you," she said, "infuriating for me."†   (source)
  • The weakness in her tears infuriates me.†   (source)
  • What that means I don't know, and it infuriates me.†   (source)
  • One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words, he thought.†   (source)
  • Reynie was hoping his words would infuriate Mr. Curtain into sleep, but Mr. Curtain had prepared himself and was not so easily goaded.†   (source)
  • This infuriated her even more, and Mother began to rain blows around my head and chest.†   (source)
  • Whatever version she gave, it was sure to infuriate Mama Elena.†   (source)
  • Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, infuriatingly, for the first time.†   (source)
  • He grew uncomfortable and then infuriated by her silence.†   (source)
  • Ford leaned back on the mattress with his hands behind his head and looked infuriatingly pleased with himself.†   (source)
  • Our opposites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconscious conviction that demonology gains both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten.†   (source)
  • The infuriating boy laughed again.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said the woman who answered, in an infuriatingly calm voice, "I see here that you've phoned in already, we've got her down on our list."†   (source)
  • He's particularly infuriating on Sundays, when he switches on the light at the crack of dawn to exercise for ten minutes.†   (source)
  • I jab him with my elbow, but this only infuriates him.†   (source)
  • There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile.†   (source)
  • I knew my anger toward them was misdirected—it absolutely infuriated me that my father lingered on while my mom was in the ground.†   (source)
  • After a time, they would get infuriated enough to use magic.†   (source)
  • Infuriating?†   (source)
  • There they came again, those infuriating tears!†   (source)
  • Cowboy's face turned red, infuriated.†   (source)
  • IT WAS INFURIATING to be told what to do by civilians.†   (source)
  • It exploded into stars and the smell infuriated them.†   (source)
  • My answer seemed to infuriate him.†   (source)
  • 'Well, if she weren't such an infuriating girl—†   (source)
  • Failing to fall out might infuriate them even more.†   (source)
  • It took an infuriatingly long time, of course.†   (source)
  • Macon was infuriated, or maybe he was just worried.†   (source)
  • It infuriated Marx too.†   (source)
  • At one point she stumbled on an article called "What's Left of Henrietta Lacks?" that infuriated her by saying Henrietta had probably gotten HPV because she "slept around."†   (source)
  • He had impeccable taste, though my library to him was a 'pile of dust,' and he seemed more than once to be infuriated by the sight of my reading a book or writing some observations in a journal.†   (source)
  • Clary could tell that he had come up behind her and was standing there with his hands in his pockets, grinning that infuriating grin of his.†   (source)
  • But Briarcrest had a new policy of shunning the inner-city black athlete, and it infuriated him.†   (source)
  • But more infuriating to Luma than simple matters of control or authority was her belief that the YMCA had simply failed repeatedly to follow through on its word.†   (source)
  • It made him feel infuriated.†   (source)
  • What infuriates me is not what he was or what he did, but the deception he practiced on all of us for so many years.†   (source)
  • By that time the archives manager was so infuriated that a girl like this one could boss her around that she called Herr Frode.†   (source)
  • Lately I had done this a few times, and it infuriated Precious Auntie.†   (source)
  • The outpouring had moved her grandparents—and me, too—but it had infuriated Mia.†   (source)
  • The fact that I am now here, the fact that I came to be to all intents and purposes at the mercy of Mr and Mrs Taylor's generosity on this night, is attributable to one foolish, infuriatingly simple oversight: namely, I allowed the Ford to run out of petrol.†   (source)
  • Yet it wasn't so much the cold and the fact that they'd lost an evening that infuriated them; the point was, there'd be no time now to do anything of their own in the camp.†   (source)
  • It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time see her, because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.†   (source)
  • He went on slotting bullets into the magazine with the infuriating air of someone who knew he would be proven right.†   (source)
  • Not only did it escalate her worry, it also infuriated her whenever the U.S. military was portrayed in a negative light.†   (source)
  • It was not like the thrashing of the night before, when she bucked beneath him like an infuriated horse or a beached fish.†   (source)
  • All this infuriated the brothel owners, who couldn't understand why a sparrow-sized woman—a girl!†   (source)
  • The way he ordered the healthy crew and passengers around infuriated the sulking captain, but if Thomas Stone was aware of this he paid no attention.†   (source)
  • Milo didn't have any idea what this meant, but it seemed to infuriate the Spelling Bee, who flew down and knocked off the Humbug's hat with his wing.†   (source)
  • But although my victory was complete and the man was ruined, and six years have passed, the thought of him still infuriates me.†   (source)
  • It infuriated Monkey John.†   (source)
  • He showed her kindness and she repaid him with treachery, and it infuriated him to think of the way she must have laughed while she did it.†   (source)
  • Face sculpted by the merciless knife of hunger, the infuriated artist with the helpless clay, and red eyes rimmed in black.†   (source)
  • she replied, infuriated.†   (source)
  • Thing after thing tried, cynical and cruel, to foist itself off as my mama's shape—a black rock balanced at the edge of the cliff, a dead tree casting a long-armed shadow, a running stag, a cave entrance—each thing trying to detach itself, lift itself out of the general meaningless scramble of objects, but falling back, melting to the blank, infuriating clutter of not-my-mother.†   (source)
  • Drew Pearson, an avowed Klan hater, now began giving regular Klan updates on his radio show, and then gave further updates, based on John Brown's inside reports, to show how the Original updates were infuriating Klan officials.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn halted without warning when he was almost by and came whirling back down upon the chaplain with a glare of infuriated suspicion.†   (source)
  • It infuriated Brave Orchid that her sister held up each dish between thumb and forefinger, squirted detergent on the back and front, and ran water without plugging up the drain.†   (source)
  • "I shall stay out of their way," said Mau with infuriating calmness.†   (source)
  • As infuriating as he is, I want him to be gazing only at me.†   (source)
  • The gesture was infuriating, but in his condition, there was little Max could do.†   (source)
  • In no time at all, the infuriating click on the line was telling me my fifteen minutes were up and the prison system was going to end the call.†   (source)
  • Wade Lanier had pulled a masterful dirty trick, and it was infuriating.†   (source)
  • This belief in the equality of blacks and whites, something that Emmett finds relatively common in integrated Chicago, infuriates Milam and Bryant.†   (source)
  • And what is so infuriating, looking back, is how I accepted the situation.†   (source)
  • You're infuriating!†   (source)
  • No—infuriating as it was, the strangers were best forgotten for the moment.†   (source)
  • It was the strangest thing, to be suddenly infuriated, like something he'd said, or done, had uncapped a valve within me, long sealed, and suddenly something was shooting out, gushing like a geyser.†   (source)
  • I was infuriated.†   (source)
  • Roarke's voice was lazy, confident, and infuriating.†   (source)
  • Something that has both embarrassed and infuriated him no end.†   (source)
  • I struggled as hard as I could, chopping at the Eraser, punching and scratching, and it was infuriating how little effect I had on the beast.†   (source)
  • Thomas had given the man from Southern enough latitude; now his antics were infuriating.†   (source)
  • Sadness flits across Cain's face, infuriating me further.†   (source)
  • Her father's voice was infuriatingly quiet.†   (source)
  • Today, talk of reconquest infuriates some Americans, who are worried about immigration and the Mexification of the Southwest: they hear more and more Spanish, and they fear that English is threatened.†   (source)
  • And so, I tried not to be too infuriated as I sat there, leaning my head into the window, pretending to be asleep.†   (source)
  • He wants each philosopher to go a certain way and becomes infuriated when he does not.†   (source)
  • And yet I was becoming aware of something warmly, infuriatingly feminine about her.†   (source)
  • With infuriating equilibrium.†   (source)
  • To add to the terrors, the animals, burnt and infuriated by the cinders, darted through the streets regardless of all human obstacles....The flames from the houses on the west side reached in a diagonal arch quite across the street, and occasionally the wind would lift the great body of flame, detach it entirely from the burning buildings, and hurl it with terrific force far ahead.†   (source)
  • His voice was infuriatingly friendly, his eyes only lightly amused.†   (source)
  • Oh, this is infuriating.†   (source)
  • What infuriated Jerry was that Carter toppled him gently, lowering him to the ground almost tenderly as if to prove his superiority.†   (source)
  • More to the point, she was like a mother, who couldn't stop worrying about you, who couldn't help reminding you that you still needed her help, which was infuriating because in fact you did.†   (source)
  • "True," Rafi said, infuriatingly.†   (source)
  • They hurt them, of course, and infuriate them: like stinging flies.†   (source)
  • When I saw that, I was so infuriated that I waded in and stopped the fight myself.†   (source)
  • It was mind-numbing and infuriating, particularly because 10 percent of the chemistry grade was tied to attendance.†   (source)
  • He called her the reasonable twin, which sometimes infuriated her mother and other times made her laugh.†   (source)
  • We stopped eventually (even though it really infuriated Slim and Hawkeye) because it was terribly hot and you couldn't see where you were going and it played havoc with your hair.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dubois had an infuriating way of getting a person mixed up.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, however, were full of a sadness that infuriated him so much he was nearly capable of striking her.†   (source)
  • The dead calm in her voice is infuriating.†   (source)
  • Socrates must have known that his proposed "punishment" would infuriate the jury.†   (source)
  • It's infuriating not to be able to get him.†   (source)
  • "What?" said the Knight, still laughing and patting her head in a quite infuriating fashion.†   (source)
  • Oh, Linnie had been so foolish, so infuriatingly brainless, to meet him like that at the drugstore in the middle of her hometown wearing her dress-up dress and her high-heeled shoes!†   (source)
  • Infuriated by Ben's insolence, Lucas growled and hurled Ben to the other side of the room.†   (source)
  • "Those are aristocratic names," she explained with infuriating haughtiness.†   (source)
  • Miss Crail thought he would come back: she had discovered she owed him some money—wages underpaid—and it infuriated her that her monster had been so unmonstrous as not to collect it.†   (source)
  • If he had missed the heart with the first shot the bear, numbed to further pain, would have taken a whole magazine of bullets and kept coming, an infuriated devil.†   (source)
  • Therefore, although Nathan's remark was doubly infuriating at the time, piling, as I thought, imbecility on plain viciousness, I realize now how weirdly prescient it really was, how typical it was of that erratic, daft, tormented, but keenly honed and magisterial intelligence I was to get to know and find myself too often pitted against.†   (source)
  • I behaved like the others who had infuriated and saddened me by refusing to acknowledge that change was coming to our part of the world.†   (source)
  • If Randy irritated Edgar, Mark infuriated him.†   (source)
  • Infuriated, Yurii Andreievich told him to get the nurse on the telephone.†   (source)
  • That seemed to infuriate him, and he turned my chin gently with his fingers and drew back his right fist.†   (source)
  • They heard his rapid walk and he thrust his infuriated face into the room.†   (source)
  • A pair of pretty girls, engrossed in the infuriating dead-end of long range telepathic communication, demanded of Dr. Jordan why transmission of visual images always showed color aberration, which it did not.†   (source)
  • ...then dancing among the trees he began to sing a song to infuriate them and bring them all after him, and also to let the dwarves hear his voice.   (source)
    infuriate = make very angry
  • The clans have ever been contentious; what pleases one infuriates another.†   (source)
  • That infuriating, irresistible smile broke across her face for one second.†   (source)
  • Rahel called him Elvis the Pelvis and did a twisty, funny kind of dance that infuriated Estha.†   (source)
  • But there would never be an end to that, and seeing her mother diminished shamed and infuriated her.†   (source)
  • And by the time she returned home, it positively infuriated her.†   (source)
  • Counting my coins with infuriating slowness.†   (source)
  • Infuriated, she struck against the air with her fist.†   (source)
  • His face infuriated me, his fear, his contempt, his rage.†   (source)
  • Infuriatingly, he assured me that he hadn't really meant it—it had been only a "passing thought."†   (source)
  • The sticky sweetness of her voice was infuriating.†   (source)
  • Even so, it infuriated me: You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore.†   (source)
  • Maven runs next to me, never more than a step away, and it's strangely infuriating.†   (source)
  • He barely flinches and it infuriates me.†   (source)
  • He seemed infuriated by the need to ask.†   (source)
  • Eragon clenched his jaw, infuriated that Brom was deliberately keeping him in the dark.†   (source)
  • The weakness in her tears infuriates me.†   (source)
  • Laws about who you could love, forms about your virginity being intact; it was infuriating.†   (source)
  • This was really upsetting Jacob, and that infuriated me.†   (source)
  • The man seemed to enjoy infuriating her.†   (source)
  • As much as I've been infuriated by Kartik's arrogance, his sureness, I find I miss it now.†   (source)
  • The infuriating part was that I thought I might be on to something.†   (source)
  • In November he demanded that Adams explain his actions, and in a tone bound to infuriate Adams.†   (source)
  • "I ...I," Jason stammered, the mists interfering, infuriating him.†   (source)
  • But her struggle to hold back both challenged and infuriated.†   (source)
  • Just the sound of his voice was enough to infuriate Miri.†   (source)
  • He watched her with the tolerant amusement she found both infuriating and irresistible.†   (source)
  • This infuriated Cleon because he had only eighty acres, but yet these black folks had the same.†   (source)
  • Do you know what's so infuriating about this little flower?" said the Demon.†   (source)
  • The crowd was howling epithets, the stewards were infuriated, the reporters were unsympathetic.†   (source)
  • He hates them both, and this will infuriate him.†   (source)
  • "Just relax," he said with infuriating coolness.†   (source)
  • When something really comes up and he needs one—It's infuriating.†   (source)
  • Infuriated, Jeff rushed into his apartment.†   (source)
  • Don't worry," Alessandro said, infuriating him.†   (source)
  • Lin's remarks not only astonished him, they infuriated him.†   (source)
  • Infuriatingly patient, she smiled compassionately and held out a hand to him.†   (source)
  • He grins, and his defiance infuriates me.†   (source)
  • "You carried my luggage to my room," she continued, infuriated.†   (source)
  • It infuriated him anew to admit it, to know she could so easily devastate him.†   (source)
  • But to have such a blow as this fall now in his old age, and inflicted by a friend, was infuriating.†   (source)
  • General Dreedle was infuriated by his intervention.†   (source)
  • A cry of frenzy exploded from the throat of an infuriated man.†   (source)
  • It infuriated him that she could, simply by existing, be his weakness.†   (source)
  • Everything was suddenly clear ...clear and infuriating.†   (source)
  • He also infuriated Mrs. Brown by completely ignoring her presence.†   (source)
  • It was then that he began his infuriating prattle.†   (source)
  • An infuriating piety reinforced even my anger.†   (source)
  • " Again, infuriatingly, he was laughing, "—all those children," he said.†   (source)
  • It infuriated him that he couldn't snap out the answer at them.†   (source)
  • That was what made the whole thing so infuriating.†   (source)
  • It's infuriating.†   (source)
  • I should infuriate you more often.†   (source)
  • It was an infuriating habit.†   (source)
  • Restless and irritable, Ron had developed an annoying habit of playing with the Deluminator in his pocket; This particularly infuriated Hermione, who was whiling away the wait for Kreacher by studying The Tales of Beedle the Bard and did not ap-preciate the way the lights kept flashing on and off.†   (source)
  • His hair was longer, and he had aged some, but elegantly, in a way that some women his age might find unfair and even infuriating.†   (source)
  • It was infuriating that everyone had to have their hands on this—the girls, his parents, even Aspen.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that Davis probably liked what infuriated Daisy—that I didn't ask too many questions.†   (source)
  • It was infuriating to discover the reason for all these terrible disasters and not to be able to tell the public, almost worse than it being the government's fault after all.†   (source)
  • A BOOM reverberated through the woods—the sound of barroom doors being thrown open—followed by the roar of infuriated giants.†   (source)
  • It was too low, mid-belly, and I wrestled with it a few seconds, and it raised only an inch, the kind of malfunction that would normally infuriate me, but I could no longer be infuriated in public, so I took a breath and leaned down and read the words that my sister had written for me: "My wife, Amy Dunne, has been missing for almost a week.†   (source)
  • Yet I was sitting here, listening to the same songs as before, staring at my poster of Anubis and feeling helplessly conflicted about something as trivial and infuriating as ...yes, you guessed it.†   (source)
  • I bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.†   (source)
  • She had the infuriating feeling that he was toying with her, that there was some joke she didn't understand.†   (source)
  • Infuriated by his failure and by Ron and Hermione's attitudes, Harry brooded for the next few days over what to do next about Slughorn.†   (source)
  • I came to understand that I had baffled and infuriated my father at least as much as he had baffled and infuriated me.†   (source)
  • "I infuriate myself," he said gently.†   (source)
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