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  • Chris was just being Chris, but it infuriated me.†   (source)
  • She had the infuriating iron-clad confidence of the true believer.†   (source)
  • And by the time she returned home, it positively infuriated her.†   (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)
  • The whole thing was infuriating.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Reynie was hoping his words would infuriate Mr. Curtain into sleep, but Mr. Curtain had prepared himself and was not so easily goaded.†   (source)
  • He spoke in his calmest, most reasonable voice, the voice which infuriated the twins.†   (source)
  • "Funny to you," she said, "infuriating for me."†   (source)
  • IT WAS INFURIATING to be told what to do by civilians.†   (source)
  • Infuriatingly, he assured me that he hadn't really meant it—it had been only a "passing thought."†   (source)
  • One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words, he thought.†   (source)
  • It was infuriating.†   (source)
  • What that means I don't know, and it infuriates me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Ford leaned back on the mattress with his hands behind his head and looked infuriatingly pleased with himself.†   (source)
  • He's partic ularly infuriating on Sundays, when he switches on the light at the crack of dawn to exercise for ten minutes.†   (source)
  • His tone of weary unconcern infuriated her.†   (source)
  • The weakness in her tears infuriates me.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The infuriating boy laughed again.†   (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)
  • After a time, they would get infuriated enough to use magic.†   (source)
  • Lately I had done this a few times, and it infuriated Precious Auntie.†   (source)
  • It took an infuriatingly long time, of course.†   (source)
  • But Briarcrest had a new policy of shunning the inner-city black athlete, and it infuriated him.†   (source)
  • It exploded into stars and the smell infuriated them.†   (source)
  • It was an infuriating habit.†   (source)
  • Cowboy's face turned red, infuriated.†   (source)
  • There they came again, those infuriating tears!†   (source)
  • He grew uncomfortable and then infuriated by her silence.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Failing to fall out might infuriate them even more.†   (source)
  • My answer seemed to infuriate him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Her father's voice was infuriatingly quiet.†   (source)
  • He wants each philosopher to go a certain way and becomes infuriated when he does not.†   (source)
  • It infuriated Marx too.†   (source)
  • 'Well, if she weren't such an infuriating girl—"†   (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)
  • And what is so infuriating, looking back, is how I accepted the situation.†   (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)
  • It was not like the thrashing of the night before, when she bucked beneath him like an infuriated horse or a beached fish.†   (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)
  • It made him feel infuriated.†   (source)
  • Sadness flits across Cain's face, infuriating me further.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • No—infuriating as it was, the strangers were best forgotten for the moment.†   (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)
  • To add to the terrors, the animals, burnt and infuriated by the cinders, darted through the streets regardless of all human obstacles….†   (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)
  • It infuriated Monkey John.†   (source)
  • All this infuriated the brothel owners, who couldn't understand why a sparrow-sized woman--a girl!†   (source)
  • As infuriating as he is, I want him to be gazing only at me.†   (source)
  • Infuriated, Jeff rushed into his apartment.†   (source)
  • It was mind-numbing and infuriating, particularly because 10 percent of the chemistry grade was tied to attendance.†   (source)
  • Face sculpted by the merciless knife of hunger, the infuriated artist with the helpless clay, and red eyes rimmed in black.†   (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)
  • The dead calm in her voice is infuriating.†   (source)
  • I was infuriated.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Macon was infuriated, or maybe he was just worried.†   (source)
  • The infuriating part was that I thought I might be on to something.†   (source)
  • Something that has both embarrassed and infuriated him no end.†   (source)
  • "You're infuriating!†   (source)
  • My enemy is kitsch, not Communism! she replied, infuriated.†   (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)
  • The outpouring had moved her grandparents—and me, too—but it had infuriated Mia.†   (source)
  • Wade Lanier had pulled a masterful dirty trick, and it was infuriating.†   (source)
  • And yet I was becoming aware of something warmly, infuriatingly feminine about her.†   (source)
  • "I shall stay out of their way," said Mau with infuriating calmness.†   (source)
  • Roarke's voice was lazy, confident, and infuriating.†   (source)
  • One in the south drive, the other by the kennels, possibly waking the drugged dogs, bewildering them, infuriating them-Do it!†   (source)
  • Though infuriated by Dickinson's "magisterial" tone, Adams replied calmly that there were many accommodations he would make in the cause of harmony and unanimity.†   (source)
  • He went on slotting bullets into the magazine with the infuriating air of someone who knew he would be proven right.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, however, were full of a sadness that infuriated him so much he was nearly capable of striking her.†   (source)
  • Oh, this is infuriating.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This belief in the equality of blacks and whites, something that Emmett finds relatively common in integrated Chicago, infuriates Milam and Bryant.†   (source)
  • His voice was infuriatingly friendly, his eyes only lightly amused.†   (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)
  • They hurt them, of course, and infuriate them: like stinging flies.†   (source)
  • Thomas had given the man from Southern enough latitude; now his antics were infuriating.†   (source)
  • He called her the reasonable twin, which sometimes infuriated her mother and other times made her laugh.†   (source)
  • "Those are aristocratic names," she explained with infuriating haughtiness.†   (source)
  • When I saw that, I was so infuriated that I waded in and stopped the fight myself.†   (source)
  • The gesture was infuriating, but in his condition, there was little Max could do.†   (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)
  • "True," Rafi said, infuriatingly.†   (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)
  • Socrates must have known that his proposed "punishment" would infuriate the jury.†   (source)
  • Infuriated by Ben's insolence, Lucas growled and hurled Ben to the other side of the room.†   (source)
  • It's infuriating not to be able to get him.†   (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)
  • If Randy irritated Edgar, Mark infuriated him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I knew what she meant by "nice boys"—boys who were not Italian—and the sly knife-thrust of her bigotry infuriated me.†   (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)
  • Mr. Dubois had an infuriating way of getting a person mixed up.†   (source)
  • That seemed to infuriate him, and he turned my chin gently with his fingers and drew back his right fist.†   (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)
  • Infuriated, Yurii Andreievich told him to get the nurse on the telephone.†   (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)
  • He barely flinches and it infuriates me.†   (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)
  • Even so, it infuriated me: You get all these friends just when you don't need friends anymore.†   (source)
  • The sticky sweetness of her voice was infuriating.†   (source)
  • Counting my coins with infuriating slowness.†   (source)
  • Infuriated, she struck against the air with her fist.†   (source)
  • Maven runs next to me, never more than a step away, and it's strangely infuriating.†   (source)
  • "Just relax," he said with infuriating coolness.†   (source)
  • Eragon clenched his jaw, infuriated that Brom was deliberately keeping him in the dark.†   (source)
  • Laws about who you could love, forms about your virginity being intact; it was infuriating.†   (source)
  • The weakness in her tears infuriates me.†   (source)
  • This was really upsetting Jacob, and that infuriated me.†   (source)
  • The clans have ever been contentious; what pleases one infuriates another.†   (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)
  • That infuriating, irresistible smile broke across her face for one second.†   (source)
  • This infuriated Cleon because he had only eighty acres, but yet these black folks had the same.†   (source)
  • An infuriating piety reinforced even my anger.†   (source)
  • His face infuriated me, his fear, his contempt, his rage.†   (source)
  • It infuriated him that she could, simply by existing, be his weakness.†   (source)
  • He watched her with the tolerant amusement she found both infuriating and irresistible.†   (source)
  • Just the sound of his voice was enough to infuriate Miri.†   (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)
  • Don't worry," Alessandro said, infuriating him.†   (source)
  • He hates them both, and this will infuriate him.†   (source)
  • When something really comes up and he needs one—It's infuriating.†   (source)
  • Lin's remarks not only astonished him, they infuriated him.†   (source)
  • In November he demanded that Adams explain his actions, and in a tone bound to infuriate Adams.†   (source)
  • He seemed infuriated by the need to ask.†   (source)
  • A cry of frenzy exploded from the throat of an infuriated man.†   (source)
  • Infuriatingly patient, she smiled compassionately and held out a hand to him.†   (source)
  • He grins, and his defiance infuriates me.†   (source)
  • But to have such a blow as this fall now in his old age, and inflicted by a friend, was infuriating.†   (source)
  • "You carried my luggage to my room," she continued, infuriated.†   (source)
  • But her struggle to hold back both challenged and infuriated.†   (source)
  • "What's all this 'infuriating' business?†   (source)
  • Everything was suddenly clear … clear and infuriating.†   (source)
  • General Dreedle was infuriated by his intervention.†   (source)
  • It infuriated him anew to admit it, to know she could so easily devastate him.†   (source)
  • "I … I," Jason stammered, the mists interfering, infuriating him.†   (source)
  • He also infuriated Mrs. Brown by completely ignoring her presence.†   (source)
  • It was then that he began his infuriating prattle.†   (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 was infuriating that everyone had to have their hands on this—the girls, his parents, even Aspen.†   (source)
  • I should infuriate you more often.†   (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's infuriating.†   (source)
  • Are you always this infuriating?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • On top of everything else, I had apparently managed to infuriate Master Elodin to such an extent that he had thrown me off the roof of the Crockery.†   (source)
  • This infuriated Martina, and as Jackson and Jillson redoubled their grips on Kate's limbs, the raven-haired girl prepared to unleash her most vicious attack yet.†   (source)
  • "I infuriate myself," he said gently.†   (source)
  • She had the infuriating feeling that he was toying with her, that there was some joke she didn't understand.†   (source)
  • But today it's not infuriating.†   (source)
  • Is he trying to infuriate me?†   (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 bet while we were gone, the boys were watching a video about how to look at each other in that infuriating way.†   (source)
  • Then whatever had troubled him passed over him completely, and he smiled again—he looked at us all with his old, infuriating smile.†   (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)
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