"No, it was just irritating.
But the disparity was only occasionally irritating.
Some trees shed huge amounts of highly allergenic pollen; others produce very little, or their pollen is only moderately irritating.
Introduced by the actor Aidan Gillen as "big, groovy, loose, sexy, spacey", White deals in a kind of lush, psychedelic soul-rock that is so brimming with pleasure – so utterly "switched on" – it's only mildly irritating you can't hear a word he's saying because his drummer is too loud.
He was only mildly irritated when Ali, gliding sideways past his corner, muttered contemptuous predictions.
He is only mildly irritated when he comes across what he considers to be a particularly obtuse or outlandish interpretation, often one that reaches into a poem and picks out a phrase and worries it, teasing out all sorts of meanings while ignoring the fabric of the whole.
And while Jets safety Nick Ferguson is only mildly irritated when his nickname is revealed, he embraces the sort of fearless tackling that has earned him the name from teammates and, earlier in the season, a rare public rebuke from Coach Herman Edwards.
Capriati was just irritated.
That might remind them that you are only human, and not simply out to irritate them.
