| 单词 | irritatingly |
| 例句 | Irritating, and irritatingly familiar, like something she was supposed to remember but couldn’t. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She never put herself forward, but kept her position respectfully equal with other people, and she did not say irritatingly clever things. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They were irritatingly garrulous, prone to fits of chicanery, and often surprisingly incompetent at what seemed to Indians like basic tasks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But, irritatingly dutiful, he takes the other seat at the table, fiddling with one of the teacups. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z So it's a puzzle, but irritatingly, not one that we can solve: the narrative just outs the werewolf as being Reverend Lester Lowe, the town's priest. Rereading Stephen King: week 17 – Cycle of the Werewolf 2013-03-07T12:02:36Z The three stars, irritatingly, used free-standing microphones for the most part, thereby robbing us of a natural balance between voices and orchestra. Netrebko/Vargas/Schrott – review 2012-06-07T11:33:40Z One of the biggest obstacles many of us who want to lean more plant based face is how irritatingly, unappetizingly virtuous so many of the recipes out there are. An indulgent brownie that's accidentally vegan, in less than a minute 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Planet Earth is too classy to mimic those modern documentaries dominated by irritatingly macho cameramen. Your next box set: Planet Earth 2011-03-11T08:00:01Z Reading James Salter’s novel “Light Years,” he remarks that the young couple in it, Nedra and Viri, are “possibly the most irritatingly named characters in literature.” Books of The Times: Inducements to Filthiness and Other Paradoxes 2011-03-22T11:00:00Z The A party, and more irritatingly, both tour managers, were staying at The Nimb. 41 Days, 26 Shows, 10 Countries: A Rock Tour Diary 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z David stars in the production as a familiar version of his screen persona -- neurotic, un-politically correct and irritatingly self-absorbed. 'Fish in the Dark,' with Larry David, gets mixed reviews on Broadway 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z But ladling on the atmosphere doesn’t make up for the thin story, with its obvious twists and irritatingly ambivalent ending. | 'InSight': ?InSight,? Directed by Richard Gabai ? Review 2011-09-02T04:43:03Z His interest in her troubles with her mother extends no further than offering irritatingly bland observations. Review | ‘Burnt Sugar,’ a challenging Booker Prize finalist, is hard to take, but harder to shake off 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Many contradictions reside within Shakespeare's portrait of Cleopatra, who must beguile even at her most irritatingly manipulative, as the play opens with an Egyptian-style bacchanal. Seattle Shakes' 'Antony and Cleopatra' a full-scale telling of fascinating classic 2012-11-06T00:15:09Z After Seattle’s music goes viral and commercial, the young roomies descend into jealous backbiting and feuding — irritatingly resurrected when the group holds an awkward reunion 20 years later. ‘These Streets’: guts and glory, but little story 2013-02-27T22:58:32Z Marriage “is both the most public and the most secret of institutions, its miseries as irritatingly insistent as a hacking cough, its private malaise less easily diagnosed.” For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z But its second season, predicated on the irritatingly omnipotent “Next Generation” antagonist Q, was a regression. Catching Up With ‘Star Trek,’ the Quiet Franchise 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z In its early years, South Park became irritatingly over-marketed, with each of its character getting its own raft of peripheral merchandise. From Sherlock sandwiches to gay daleks: 30 secrets about your favourite TV shows 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Phrases like “energy efficiency” and “help the environment” appear throughout the F87000P’s literature, but AEG is irritatingly imprecise about its environmental impact. Design: Respect for the Humble Workhorse 2011-06-27T09:38:23Z At times, the metaphor can be irritatingly pat: As the feasters unleash their appetites, they gain weight, literally “taking up space.” Can Food Help Women Resist the Patriarchy? This Novel Says Yes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In the new series, Cumberbatch’s detective is less of the irritatingly smug know-it-all we saw in earlier episodes. The return of Sherlock: ‘Being a hero isn’t about being bigger, richer, more powerful' 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z But the "real" story, the story of the writer's financial woes – that is left irritatingly unexamined and unresolved. Cannes 2012: In Another Country ? review 2012-05-21T15:30:59Z The irritatingly dogged Wiley — he’s the Louis Canning of investigators — discovered that Prima was on the stand at the time he was supposed to have deleted the email. 'The Good Wife' Recap: It's Gross, You're Gross 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z They seem to fit in without trying and, most irritatingly, without caring. Mastering Middle School Friendship Drama 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z There are also group tours, which depart from Ponza Porto, though be prepared for irritatingly loud music. Overnighter: Off the Roman Coast, Bobbing for Views 2011-05-06T20:15:00Z Nothing is irritatingly wrongheaded about Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s direction or choreography — cynical ambivalence about these sins is built into this 1933 ballet by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill — but nothing is remotely memorable either. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z An exhibition at the Fruitmarket last year, filling the gap created by the public work's delay, irritatingly made Creed look like an artist obsessed with numbers and clever-clever plays on pattern. Martin Creed's stairway to?heaven 2011-08-01T20:31:00Z Campbell clearly has talent to burn, but her Deloris is irritatingly loud and crass for most of the sometimes-sluggish, 2 ½-hour production. Touring ‘Sister Act’ has more sass than soul 2013-08-21T21:55:05Z Suddenly, the ghastly similarities between typing and what I imagine to be the irritatingly intermittent joys of auto-erotic asphyxiation come galloping to the fore. The language of verbal restraint 2010-07-20T14:11:00Z They deal in lowest common denominators: lyrical clunkers such as "in for a penny, in for a pound" are set to irritatingly catchy, chugging guitar pop. Scouting for Girls 2010-05-09T20:50:00Z Annabelle is irritatingly hapless, but she can display unexpected resourcefulness and toughness. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Michael the filmmaker tags along, capturing all the shrieking, cursing, howling, body twisting and slamming with phony surveillance images and irritatingly palsied camerawork. | 'The Devil Inside': ?The Devil Inside,? A Fake Documentary - Review 2012-01-06T20:26:38Z As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The screenplay credited to William Brookfield covers the basic facts of the kidnapping and briefly and irritatingly suggests that the abductors were at least partly motivated by economic hard times. Review: ‘Kidnapping Mr. Heineken’ Revisits a 1983 Dutch Crime 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He also named his son Dax, after the sentient, wormlike life-form in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, of which Bailey is an irritatingly blameless fan. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z "I find it impossible warmly to recommend a play that is at once irritatingly arty and terminally depressing." Can't bear it 2010-04-08T11:37:00Z Director Gabriel Barre’s young cast, as usual with these non-Equity tours, ranges from promising to very good, though it’s impossible to reconcile its sturdy singing with the irritatingly tinny sound of the computer-processed score. Review | ‘Amazing Grace’ lumbers into the new Museum of the Bible 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It patched together snippets of interviews with dancers and Ms. Johnson as well as current rehearsals — irritatingly, many of the shots featured bodies grotesquely chopped at the waist — and black-and-white vintage clips. Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z The way apps presented deals in map form was irritatingly inconsistent. Frugal Traveler: Last-Minute Hotel Bookings Made Cheaper 2013-06-25T18:10:01Z While he never seems irritatingly deaf to his music, he at no point helps me to hear it better. Dance Review: Waves of Movement, Ever Flowing 2010-11-19T22:55:00Z Mr. Rattle described “Gruppen,” which means “groups” in German, as “irritatingly complex.” 109 Players. 3 Conductors. It’s Even Harder Than It Sounds. 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s one thing to watch these amazing athletes on television, but to see them right in front of you whooshing by with such extraordinary grace and power — and irritatingly perfect form — was truly a highlight. Want to ski on your summer vacation? Head to the Chilean Andes. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z It's a fascinating story, much more engaging than , but rather irritatingly told. Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Project Nim ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:34Z The games are often frustratingly random, irritatingly saccharine, or just plain boring. Mario Sports Mix ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:38Z Also, Kate Humble has been known, on occasion, to be irritatingly upbeat. Rewind TV: The Newsroom; Twenty Twelve; Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies; Volcano Live – review 2012-07-14T23:06:06Z That is, of course, a mistake; but Andrew and Julie are irritatingly slow on the uptake as their guests become more menacing by the minute. Review: In ‘Caught,’ a Couple Lets the Wrong Ones In 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Jay-Z plays irritatingly coy with conspiracy theories: he repudiates the old illuminati canard, but it's rather disingenuous given, for example, the title of this album. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z Good things happen to him, irritatingly good things, constantly. We Had It So Good by Linda Grant - review 2011-01-30T00:38:01Z I’m a fan of Stewart’s, generally speaking, and will irritatingly add that I always think of her, first and foremost, as “that girl from ‘Adventureland.’” “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z On the boat and at the island, Noah, in Alison’s eyes, was irritatingly cheerful — whooping and forcing her to strike “Titanic” poses, loudly singing songs from “Camelot.” ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z As it points out in the blurb, most dishwasher baskets are still designed to accommodate 1970s place settings, which is why they can seem irritatingly inflexible today. Design: Respect for the Humble Workhorse 2011-06-27T09:38:23Z Using a Replenish is irritatingly tricky thanks to the cramped keyboard and fiddly operating system. Design: Good-Looking and Responsible Design 2011-08-05T17:30:07Z You may find yourself throwing things at the screen when the irritatingly tremulous Claire goes to bed and covers herself, head to toe, with books — the only way she can get to sleep. Review: ‘Flesh and Bone,’ a Ballet Drama With Strippers 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z The letters DON’T have to cross; just think of each answer on the grid as an individual word or phrase, just placed in an irritatingly unwieldy format instead of a nice tidy list. Style Invitational Week 1446: Clue us in — as we spill the beans 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Even more irritatingly, Guy came to the meeting only because of its proximity to his mother-in-law, "with whom I had for a long time been thinking of having an affair". The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z I'll sift through the loose portobellos, irritatingly bagging the choicest mushrooms one by one, then wander over to the technicolor stacks of hot and sweet peppers while dreaming up relishes and roasted pestos. A love letter to all the produce I haven’t picked 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Much of this is still funny, and Hitchcock consistently turns the joke against his own countrymen — nearly all of the British characters are irritatingly superior or xenophobic to some degree. Television Review: ‘The Lady Vanishes’ on PBS 2013-08-15T21:28:57Z The name of Sassou became irritatingly repetitive as the night wore on and the bottles stacked up. T Magazine: Expatriot Games 2011-03-11T17:02:22Z Having recently splashed round with the shark in“Jaws,” I was struck by how irritatingly bloated “Jurassic Park” is by comparison. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z That unfortunate tendency is particularly evident in the final scene, an irritatingly unlikely denouement in which all common sense is jettisoned and mawkishness prevails. Inconsistent tone, uneven direction plague 'Off the King's Road' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z I promise, this is not snooze-worthy documentary film narration, or irritatingly convenient exposition that the writers use as a crutch. Why we need narrators: “Jane the Virgin” has the best voice-over on TV 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z J. R. felt irritatingly underplayed, with a rushed mumbling delivery. ‘Dynasty’ or ‘Dallas’? Squaring Off in the Lily Pond 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z I'd have taken Laurel and Hardy instead every time; you wouldn't have had to hold a gun to my irritatingly precocious head to make me admit to even preferring Harold Lloyd. Bravo Charlie 2010-07-30T11:15:00Z Men, bad; women, good — its feminism is irritatingly reductive, but it does make the movie topical fodder especially in 2018, a year that has reminded us that feminism speaks in many different voices. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The epitome of low-budget high concept, this impressively sustained but often irritatingly overwritten real-time exercise features an ever-assured Johnson as a streetwise young traveler and Sean Penn as her very loquacious cab driver. 'Nyad,' 'Rustin' and 'Wildcat': The Telluride biopic, three ways 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z If you’ve been anywhere near a TV screen during a football game in recent months, you might be familiar with these words and the irritatingly catchy melody they are set to. Opinion | Burger King came up with one whopper of an earworm 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z This makes them irritatingly difficult to detect and, for neutrinos streaming in from cosmic objects in the sky, even harder to know exactly where they come from. Neutrinos from a Nearby Galaxy Reveal Black Hole Secrets 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z And it is made even thornier by the drama’s most disagreeable character, a victim of Fred’s, now grown up and portrayed all too irritatingly well by Tim Hopper. Review | ‘Downstate’ is a play about pedophiles. It’s also brilliant. 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z For one thing, these widgets are still irritatingly noninteractive; they can update with new information, but the only way to use them is to tap on them to open their app. iOS 16 review: unlocking the lock screen 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Although it sold 84 million copies in print worldwide, The Da Vinci Code received mixed reviews when it was published in 2003 with Mark Lawson in the Guardian describing it as "irritatingly gripping tosh". Richard Osman to embark on new series of crime novels 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z From opposite ends of the continent, the Washington Spirit and OL Reign have become quite familiar with one another of late, irritatingly so. In third meeting this month, Spirit extends unbeaten streak vs. OL Reign 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z He said Morgan's interview with Trump "was irritatingly cut into fillets with before and after comments from the presenter, rather than trusted to flow as a conversation". Talk TV: Piers Morgan attracts mixed reviews after network launch 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The products’ packaging — done up in shades of pink, featuring a glamorous cartoon image of Dolly herself, all big hair and eyelashes — looked irritatingly cutesy. Review | I tried one of Dolly Parton’s new cake mixes, and it got me out of my 9-to-5 funk 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z When I am struggling to understand the mathematical rules underpinning quantum mechanics, they often seem irritatingly arcane and arbitrary. Talking to My Daughter Can Be Harder Than Learning Quantum Mechanics 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Some of them will be so inane or irritatingly nonsensical that you will rue the day they were written, then accidentally-on-purpose misplace them behind the couch. Remembering 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' author Eric Carle 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Miami stayed irritatingly close, within about 10 points. Lakers defeat the Miami Heat in Game 2 of NBA Finals to take 2-0 series lead 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Until February it was, for a non-believer like me, irritatingly active. Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z I have to say, I picture you being irritatingly productive during this time at home, like learning Greek or taking up the viola. Pete Buttigieg Just Wants to Be Useful 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The book is irritatingly sloppy: An entire section containing speculation on the outcome of the 2018 elections wasn’t updated to reflect the results. Review | The liberals are coming, and they’re bringing fancy coffee 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z The outsides of the little cookie discs are irritatingly slimy, and the interior is oddly vacuous. The official breakfast cereal power rankings: Part I 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Things improve when I have the Galaxy Buds hooked up to my MacBook Pro, but I still get an irritatingly frequent blip in the connection between the two Buds. Samsung Galaxy Buds review: imperfectly acceptable 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The new role puts the 29-year-old actor elbow-deep in theological discussions and thought, which he says was a place he felt more comfortable in his youth when he was “irritatingly belligerent” about his atheism. Daniel Radcliffe admits he 'would be pleasantly surprised' if there was a God despite new role as an angel 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And it’s everywhere present, this time around, in the phase of the publishing calendar irritatingly known as “New Year, New You”. Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z But upon inspection I found none open — even though, irritatingly, several of the cars parked in the charging spaces were not, in fact, charging. My kingdom for a charging station: one electric-vehicle driver's frustrating search 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z So I’m stuck with irritatingly contradictory feelings that thrive by feeding on each other—the feeling that I’ve been invaded and the feeling that I don’t exist. No Place Like Home, by Nancy Franklin 1995-10-09T04:00:00Z A: “A few more months” is an irritatingly vague timeline. Doing more work, for the same money and title | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z “A few more months” is an irritatingly vague timeline. Your Job Is More Intense. Your Pay and Title Haven’t Kept Up. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z To see Tom Brady now -- legendary quarterback, husband of a supermodel, author of a forthcoming book about peak performance -- is to assume he was irritatingly cool right from the start. New video evidence that even Tom Brady was sufficiently awkward in high school - Golf Digest 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z “It’s irritatingly warm,” said Carver Sinn, 45, of Arlington, who works in Farragut Square. Will the third try be a charm? Metro says temporary chiller fix will bring relief to Farragut North and Dupont stations. 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Hemorrhoids are irritating, IBS is irritatingly and irritably explosive, and kidney stones, well, kidney stones make IBS look like a hangnail. Perspective | What’s worse, the NFL draft or kidney stones? Couch Slouch makes the call. 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Sources said Manigault made it clear that the attendance — seven of 49 Black Caucus members — was irritatingly small. Omarosa Manigault is in Trump’s White House because of her loyalty. But what is she doing there? 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It is at times irritatingly self-serious, with scenes weighed down by portentous dialogue and characters who don't seem to have unique voices. 'Legion' is a mindbending superhero tale that may try your patience 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z “Suits”: The show with the most irritatingly scheduled season premieres, midseason finales and whatnot returns for whatever. 2017 Midseason TV premiere dates for new and returning shows 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Season 1 is over, and no one knows what comes next as “Westworld” changes leadership — another real-world parallel that would feel prescient if it wasn’t so irritatingly close to the bone. How 'Westworld' has uncomfortably reflected our world 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In “Scrappy Little Nobody,” Kendrick tells how she shaped her career by being irritatingly ordinary. Kendrick is authentic, engaging in ‘Scrappy Little Nobody’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Thursday marks 37 years since the publication of The Neverending Story, Michael Ende’s beloved fantasy novel that spawned a cult classic film adaptation with an irritatingly infectious pop hit to accompany it. New Google Doodle Celebrates 'The Neverending Story' 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z There are plenty of comic misadventures en route, including some creatively inspired shoplifting, the shrewd bamboozling of a traffic cop, and several irritatingly smug, lazy jabs at Christianity. Father doesn't always know best in the slick 'Captain Fantastic' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z No one wonder the guy always looks so irritatingly happy. What I learned from following pro athletes on Snapchat 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Proponents of this multiverse model claim that it neatly explains our universe’s habitability, but many scientists find it irritatingly circular in its reasoning. 5 Cosmic Mysteries That Scientists Still Hope to Solve Other than being irritatingly ubiquitous or hating America, what exactly are their crimes? The war on “unlikeable women”: Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian and the brazen misogyny we choose to ignore 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z From the biggest keynote event to the smallest stall on the show floor, everything was being documented with Apple’s latest smartphone, and it all looked so irritatingly easy. To beat the iPhone, you have to beat the iPhone’s camera 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Still, even if irritatingly placed in a public space, Bates said, "you'll definitely remember the name on the sign. Or at least that's what the campaign hopes." Pesky, effective? Campaign signs spread like weeds 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z We all knew someone in college who had a sort of irritatingly complicated relationship with their parents. The U.S. Can't Combat Ebola and the Islamic State Group Alone 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The most recent study on the subject has an answer that’s not likely to lessen our irritation about this whole thing, but irritatingly makes decent sense. Understanding The Seductive Power Of Overconfidence 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The trouble is that much of it is so "irritatingly convenient" that we can't help adopting it. Fighting for the art of conversation 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z When they debuted a decade ago with the impressive Fingers Crossed, they chartered a delightful menagerie of stylized woodwinds and irritatingly catchy children’s choruses. REVIEW: Architecture in Helsinki Makes No BFFs with Album NOW + 4EVA 2014-04-01T19:44:30Z This irritatingly uninformative term reveals the lack of clarity present in the field from its very beginning in 1925. Physics: QBism puts the scientist back into science 2014-03-26T18:20:27.279Z The game mechanics were simple yet irritatingly difficult. Exclusive: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Says App 'Gone Forever' Because It Was 'An Addictive Product' 2014-02-11T07:30:00Z Clearly for New Yorkers and perhaps increasingly for younger, urban Chinese, making a public and disruptive display of yourself is not just irritatingly anti-social. Dancing Grannies raise a ruckus 2013-12-12T01:56:26Z The apartment is full of energy, with music blasting without fear of noise complaints, and irritatingly filthy to one of them. Maryland basketball 2013: Separate paths, similar goals for Dez Wells, Nick Faust, Evan Smotrycz 2013-11-05T21:35:27Z Occasionally irritatingly juvenile, occasionally repetitive, it is, at its heart, a frivolous, funny game intended purely as mindless entertainment. Deadpool Review 2013-07-02T19:14:00Z Mr. Breker is irritatingly discreet about the identity of the seller, saying only that he is a young American who works for a software company. Apple-1 Computers Jump in Value at Auctions 2013-05-23T18:28:29Z Ms. Draper’s Angela elicits the sympathy of the audience, even when the character seems irritatingly naïve and meek. | Long Island: A Review of ‘My Brilliant Divorce,’ at the Bay Street Theater 2012-06-09T00:50:54Z I say I suspect, because Nintendo reps were being irritatingly tight-lipped about the specs of the new device and also exactly what you will get when you buy one. Nintendo Wii U offers glimpses of next must-have for video gamers at E3 2012-06-07T14:29:09Z Some hailed it as a work of surpassing genius, some found it irritatingly bad. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Were one or both in the Premier League they would soon find their activities spread irritatingly across television's three-day weekend. Sheffield's Green 'Un evokes fond memories of super Saturdays of old 2012-02-08T17:05:28Z Judging from the little I could find out, she was irritatingly happy in her work among rescued women and children, at the lonely old house on Long Island. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Weirdly, and irritatingly, Kumar never says in the note what component he means; I’ve asked the question and will update if/when he responds. Apple: iPhone 4S Constrained By Parts Issue, Analyst Says 2011-11-29T14:45:36Z It was Flacco, who has often been irritatingly inconsistent as he tries to develop into an elite quarterback. Joe Flacco delivers for Ravens; next step, consistency 2011-11-07T16:52:10Z And they had been so irritatingly careful of him before, never left him alone a moment; neglected her on his account; wouldn't even let her hold him—oh, so carefully; and now—this! The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z "I have a number of accomplishments," he answered irritatingly. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z First, there is the problem of trying on clothes in front of irritatingly svelte young shop assistants—an ordeal many plus-sized shoppers would rather not endure. Plus-sized clothing: Big business 2011-09-29T09:32:50Z “What would our critics have had us do, falsify the algebra?” he asks, and says of the criticism, “It was irritatingly stupid, actually.” | Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, an Original Thinker Who Bashes Orthodoxy 2011-09-19T17:34:05Z "Oh, if there's any secret about it—why, I—" Mayhan laughed irritatingly; so irritatingly that his questioner was tempted to silence him with his fist. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z She turned appealingly to Wantele, but he looked, as those about him so often saw him look, irritatingly indifferent, almost bored. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z That evening, however, Lois sent for Leverich, who was evidently disquieted, though bluffly and rather irritatingly making light of her fears; he seemed to be both a little reluctant and a little contemptuous. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z I noticed in the different places where we went a little, frail figure with a pretty, strained face, with eyes continually and irritatingly on Roger. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z Such men as Carlyle and Browning were sometimes irritatingly discordant and unshapely in style—occasionally giving the idea, as a first impression, that their words were shovelled together irrespective of sound or sense. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z However, I find most yoga classes to either be irritatingly perky or atrociously boring. iPhone Apps That Could Save Your Health, If Only They Existed 2011-07-08T19:50:24Z "It seems to me the only thing I can do," she spoke in a very low voice, but to the woman listening she seemed irritatingly calm. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z But she also knew that so far he was content, most irritatingly content, with the status quo. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z Grant is so irritatingly competent, in fact, that I can't help being secretly overjoyed about his one weak point. Four and Twenty Beds 2011-03-30T02:00:13.610Z "I cannot wait so long, old man," said Edwards irritatingly. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z Maybe, to use a phrase he is so irritatingly fond of using, he is what he is. Will 2011 be the year when Tiger Woods rediscovers his A-game?| Lawrence Donegan 2011-01-04T08:01:00Z The word, "trade," as used in connection with statistics of foreign and domestic trade has been irritatingly ambiguous. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Now, irritatingly for many, Dubai is showing signs of recovery. Dubai's finances: Debt forgetfulness 2010-12-29T10:57:07Z And in the trade sites where the industry talks to itself, they have already come up with an alternative to the irritatingly independent scientists at EFSA. Flogging foods with the help of junk science 2010-11-23T13:24:00Z In it I expressed all the gratitude and love I had failed — not wanted — to tell him about while he was irritatingly alive. My Life in Therapy 2010-08-06T12:00:00Z The county tried to sign him up after giving him two games in their second XI, but he is one of those irritatingly talented types who preferred to try his hand playing for Australia. Australia prove too strong for Tigers 2010-05-05T20:54:00Z However, many pedestrians are irritatingly distracted, and need to wake up. | Horns and Drivers 2010-04-23T19:13:00Z The BBC, as ever, is irritatingly good, despite all the dittos about video. I was shown the media's future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it's here 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z More often than not these colophons are irritatingly reticent, and withhold the very thing we want to know. The Story of Books He had patiently endured the disrespectful language of a young man whose point of view differed so irritatingly from that of the earnest men who were laboring to solve the problem. H. R. A wife could not have been more irritatingly observant of such shortcomings; and it is doubtful if even so godly a man would have yielded to a wife's suggestions with fewer protests. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 Somewhere in the house a bell commenced to jangle, and continued, irritatingly, insistently. The Gray Mask In the early light he had seated himself to make a few sketches, drawing little exquisite studies of her, and the face on the paper was ideal, irritatingly so. Fairfax and His Pride He had his cap in his hand—a shabby, gray tweed cap—and he was twirling it between his fingers round and round with an irritatingly nervous gesture. The Heart of a Woman He was a man of middle age, irritatingly careless about his appearance. The Dictator "I only meant it in relation to numbers," said Osmond, again irritatingly, in his indifference to all interests outside his dear boy's home-coming. Rose MacLeod "The girls" also had merely nodded as the small creature, looking almost irritatingly young and childish in her widow's garb, took her seat among them. Leonore Stubbs For another reason he was strangely perturbed; that afternoon he had seen a face which was irritatingly familiar but which he could not correctly place. The Song of the Wolf For in the first place it is an irritatingly conventional phrase, and in the second the paternity is usually questionable. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Galactics, of whatever race, were aloof, polite, reserved, and sometimes irritatingly patronizing—never buddy-buddy. A World by the Tale Callously modern indeed must be he who would wish Mr. Munroe's quaintly euphonious lines transmuted into the irritatingly abrupt and barren phraseology of the day. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The married boy and girl, with their doll baby and irritatingly unreal quarrels, reminded me of the boy-and-girl lovers in Brantingham Hall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. "One, two, three…!" the band launched into an old Talexian mazurka, which Barbary organs used to play, irritatingly, under my window last year. Letters from my Windmill Jim was silent, but a devil of wild deeds stirred irritatingly within him. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country He was the most irritatingly impatient of convalescents. In a Little Town He was conscious of having drowsed away in his chair, into one of those intervals he found so inevitable, and that were, at the same time, so irritatingly foreign to his previous habits of life. The Prisoner Accident brought it fast enough, however, and that rather irritatingly. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel He was irritatingly good-looking, good-humoured, and at his ease, and particularly well-dressed, without appearing in the least conscious of it. The Limit The morning was rather dull, to tell the truth, and the sounds of revelry that floated up from the scene of the practising below were not too "sacred" to be irritatingly attractive. Under the Southern Cross With a deprecatory manner that was irritatingly exaggerated she crossed the room on tip-toe, bestowing a single searching glance on the sofa and its occupant. Juggernaut He was firm but kind—the velvet hand beneath the mailed fist—irritatingly tactful, outwardly conventional, raffiné, and rather tedious. The Twelfth Hour He had struck the right note, for the British Columbian is a somewhat chivalrous person, and there was silence, through which the jingle of a piano in the saloon broke irritatingly, until Lee stood up. Lorimer of the Northwest Then in the little silence, as we paused, a voice spoke irritatingly. Desert Dust His words and glances were usually bold 214 enough, but, as he clasped the little brooch on, his fingers were almost irritatingly deft and steady. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter His irritatingly calm and beautiful devotee argues with him on religion until he is driven to cast off his disguise. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Lady MacDonald follows her example, her jingling chatelaine clanks irritatingly, as if protesting at being found in such company. When the Birds Begin to Sing "Able to walk up to the house," responded the boy irritatingly. The Opened Shutters He was irritatingly formal, his tone was precise, but it changed as he added: “So you knew Cyril!” Prescott of Saskatchewan For some time the girl’s watchfulness and intrusions had become irritatingly noticeable. The Branding Iron Our progress down the valley seemed now irritatingly slow, for I felt I could walk or run three times faster than Miela. The Fire People They were known to be able men, but they were not excessively laborious, and they kept themselves irritatingly detached from the interests of the college. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 St. Simon's voice sounded harsh in Danley's earphones, and he felt irritatingly helpless poised floatingly above the ground that way. Anchorite “No, I don’t see,” returned Bryce so irritatingly that his comrade left the confidential stage astern, and requested to know, with an affable air, when Bryce lost his eyesight. The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea He is a very fine, a very noble, a very blind, and irritatingly inconsiderate man! The Lady of the Basement Flat He must either brace up and make his style less irritatingly slipshod, or he must give us a few more murders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 The clock on the mantelpiece ticked irritatingly, and sounded the quarters at intervals which seemed curiously irregular. Despair's Last Journey "Let's cut 'Waterspin' adrift," I whispered, glaring at poor Toon, who stood steering the squat little barge, with an irritatingly complacent look on his nice face. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon "How are you going to prove your theories?" asked the Banker, in his most irritatingly practical way. The Girl in the Golden Atom "If it is impossible, I fear that thou must go from here with thy mission unfulfilled and without Mademoiselle," replied the Agha, irritatingly calm. A Soldier of the Legion Lady Agnes wandered joylessly with the girls in the Palais Royal and the Rue de Richelieu, and emerged upon the Boulevard, where they continued their frugal prowl, as Biddy rather irritatingly called it. The Tragic Muse The pose of the head, the hands clasped behind it, a trick so irritatingly familiar to me—was that the French girl? My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke The first time I saw my new coachman, there was something irritatingly familiar about him. At Home with the Jardines Her eyes grew sober enough as they rested inquiringly on my face, for all that they still held an irritatingly roguish twinkle in their depths. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country I know nothing more irritatingly alarming, when one is young and nervous, than to be roused thus by a voice in which the terror is evident and the cause unknown. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances To her he made no secret of his infatuation, but it seemed to him that when with her they were ever more constantly and more irritatingly interrupted. The Black Pearl Our fellow laughed irritatingly, and waved his hand toward Moore and me. The Colonel of the Red Huzzars De Lacy was growing used to these swift shifts of humor, these flashes of tenderness, veering instantly to aloofness, and then back to a half-confidential camaraderie, that was alluringly delicious, yet irritatingly unsatisfying. Beatrix of Clare It would be far better that that irritatingly attractive specimen of manhood should not step upon the scene, until he himself had some definite hope of affairs being satisfactorily settled. The Man and the Moment "You will have to show us the way back, as we are quite lost!" and she giggled irritatingly. Beyond The Rocks A Love Story And just at that moment he irritatingly discovered a dead mole, and fell to philosophising upon it and its soft, velvet, dainty skin—as if a girl's fingers were not softer and daintier! The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes But she stood her ground and shrugged her naked shoulders irritatingly when Hahmed crossed the dividing space in a bound with his hand upon the hilt of his dagger. Desert Love At the Rest Camp Doe and I were pushed into a tent that, insufficiently supplied with pegs, was flapping irritatingly in a rising wind. Tell England A Study in a Generation Others, the new ones especially, often gave out and had to be sent for, or came in an hour late to be most severely and irritatingly ragged by the host. Twelve Men Presently Mr. Curphy, my father's advocate, came in, rather irritatingly cheerful in that chill atmosphere, and, half an hour late, my intended husband arrived, with his London lawyer and his friend Eastcliff. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill They floated irritatingly in his head as he once more leaned back in his chair and frowned at the opposite wall. Queed His whole manner is now irritatingly calm and superior. Invisible Links The current on the pavements was irritatingly sluggish. Mr. Britling Sees It Through "What's that to you?" he replied irritatingly, with an ingrowing and obvious self-conviction of superiority and withdrawing as though he highly resented my question as condescending and intrusive. Twelve Men And he smiled again more irritatingly than ever. The Divine Fire She looked into his face serenely, but a little irritatingly. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 They were the longest, the dullest, the dreariest, the most irritatingly undelighting weeks that he had ever lived through. The Fortieth Door And his questions were to the point, and irritatingly categorical. Evelyn Innes The contrast it afforded to former opportunities was absurdly sharp and determined, and the irony of the little god's way of doing things was irritatingly manifest. The Man in Lonely Land And no doubt he found at times that the mere healthful, well-groomed look of his son was irritatingly conventional. Witness for the Defense For, after all, persistently--almost irritatingly, at times--this great federation, which was supposed to concern itself with many fine abstractions, swung back to that concrete and essentially womanly idea of the care of children. The Precipice Harry laughed, and so irritatingly that had his name been Thomas I should have struck him. The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life There were times when she seemed simply an antagonist holding out irritatingly against something I had to settle. Tono Bungay Throughout his life he had made a point of "getting even" with those who had irritatingly crossed his path, or much disliked him. The Shuttle Available records are irritatingly uninformative upon the arrest of the Lady Warriston. She Stands Accused The Cliff Walk belongs to the public, and here and there meanders irritatingly over some very exclusive millionaire's front lawn. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories As Cecil came in, looking, Hyacinth thought, particularly and irritatingly handsome, she felt a fresh attack of acute jealousy. Love's Shadow Oliver puts irritatingly careful quotation marks around the verb. Young People's Pride A Novel There was nothing bad about Molly; she was irritatingly blameless. Together Almost a foster-sister relationship seems to be implied, but actual detail is irritatingly absent. She Stands Accused Indeed, his utterances on any subject they had all found to be irritatingly constrained and limited of late. Mrs. Day's Daughters But his friend irritatingly replies that on pleasant mornings he prefers not to take the car. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 Some months before, this letter from Hans would have divided Deronda's thoughts irritatingly: its romancing, about Mirah would have had an unpleasant edge, scarcely anointed with any commiseration for his friend's probable disappointment. Daniel Deronda The more irritatingly unbearable, too, it was because of the excellence of Ida's qualities—qualities he had taken humorously before marriage, but which later he had to take seriously. Life at High Tide So the man lay still and suffered, not intensely, but irritatingly. The Wolf's Long Howl Dr. Slingsby's cross-examination was directed to ascertaining as near as possible the time when the murder was committed, but this was a point on which the witness allowed himself to be irritatingly indefinite. The Hampstead Mystery She was not eager on the whole to yield up a detail which after all added glow to possible prospects which from her point of view were already irritatingly glowing. The Head of the House of Coombe On his right hand the doorway incessantly flickered with distant lightning, and the continuous rumble of thunder went on irritatingly, like the growl of an inarticulate giant muttering fatuously. Victory An Island Tale When Martha, according to the custom of wives, inquired categorically concerning his day in Philadelphia, he dragged out most irritatingly vague answers. The Awakening of Helena Richie One morning Meffia, walking about the court, in her irritatingly aimless fashion, passed between Brinnaria and the edge of the tank. The Unwilling Vestal He had been irritatingly fastidious from boyhood up. Quill's Window "That is your woman's privilege," and Embury smiled irritatingly at her. Raspberry Jam Also, like the whiskers, it is obtrusive, and a matter for much irritatingly complacent pride. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The girl whose eyes had made him feel as if he were on holy ground—the girl whom he had been so irritatingly unable to get out of his mind! Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story The merry, ruddy face of the fire smiled irritatingly as it illumined the dark figures about it; and the voices blended mournfully with the soft rustle and crackle of the flames. Mother Yet no poet altered his verses so much in obedience to censure unjustly or irritatingly stated, yet in essence just. Alfred Tennyson "I didn't think he was such a stiff, Barney," she said in an irritatingly pleasant voice. Children of the Whirlwind The Rev. Alexander Naismith was a little man with a shrill voice, which gained for him the cognomen of "Squeaky Sandy," and a most irritatingly persistent temper. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies That same buzz came irritatingly to the ears of a none-too-sprucely dressed young man who lay, with eyes shut, under the shifting shade of a giant palm, a hundred yards away. Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story He applied the match to the pipe, took a contemplative whiff or two, and remarked, in an irritatingly familiar way: "Seems to me it's devilish odd weather for this time of year." The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut Yet, distasteful as the impending interview promised to be, the master was vaguely and irritatingly disappointed. Cressy Finally Gavegan managed to get a flame from one of those irritatingly splintery Swedish matches made in Japan. Children of the Whirlwind And then I heard a slight tinkling of china from the pantry as the steward proceeded to set the table, and, also, it was so warm and comfortable, and George Moore was so irritatingly fascinating. The Mutiny of the Elsinore The big mongrel, in agony, snarled and made a lunge at his irritatingly dancing tormentor. Further Adventures of Lad Casey drove as "purty" as was possible with a six-shooter pressed irritatingly against his lowest floating rib; but he did not dwell upon the spectacle of himself found dead with a carload of booze. The Trail of the White Mule Nevertheless the master was irritatingly conscious of her presence—a presence which now had all the absurdity of her ridiculous love-experiences superadded to it. Cressy “Now then, pass along, you girls, pass along,” they would say, in that irritatingly unsympathetic voice of theirs. Novel Notes If a similar situation had arisen in a subsequent hand he would have blundered just as certainly, and he would have been just as irritatingly apologetic. The Toys of Peace, and other papers Yet to me she was ever meek, almost irritatingly submissive. Paul Kelver, a Novel Hungry, tired, and depressed, with my head engaged inside a white shirt irritatingly stuck together by too much starch, I desired him peevishly to “heave round with that breakfast.” 'Twixt Land and Sea Chiefly I was aware of my mother as rather dull company, as a mind thorny with irrational conclusions and incapable of explication, as one believing quite wilfully and irritatingly in impossible things. The New Machiavelli |
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