Example sentences for: flustered

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  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • Tripp told Newsweek that Willey did not seem upset at the time, but instead looked "flustered, happy and joyful."

  • Woodward--understandably flustered by this unenviable task--takes 56 seconds to say, in effect, that l'affaire Lewinsky is but one episode in a larger scandal.

  • Tommy Tolles, a golfer finishing on 18, made some gestures as though he was going to throw his ball in the lake, and the crowd cheered him on, which got Montgomerie flustered again.

  • DESIGNATED SCANDAL VILLAIN LINDA TRIPP , of course, told Isikoff that when she ran into Willey after Willey's Oval Office encounter, Willey looked "flustered, happy, and joyful"--not harrassed.


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