Rather, it seems more like a few mindless expressions of irritation at higher authority in a magazine he probably never reads: snidely mocking Vice President Joe Biden with the comment "Biden... Who's that?"; complaining about frequent e-mail messages from the administration's special representative to the Afghan war area, Richard Holbrooke.
The talks "were overshadowed by a dispute over India's opposition to a world trade pact and a new expression of Indian irritation over US surveillance activity", The Economic Times reports.
A look of irritation flashes across his face.
The models wear expressions of mild irritation and never smile, which is just as well because there is no room on their faces for anything as large as a smile.
The Brussels official who found a majority of E.U. members liking the idea that Turkey's entry seems shelved for now — I spoke to a cabinet minister from another E.U. core country who agreed — described Turkish assertiveness as "tactics, not strategy," and part of an expression of Turkey's irritation with Europe's resistance to it.
"If we have clarity," observed the committee chair, Bernard Jenkin, one of Brexit's most vocal enthusiasts, "then what does a muddle look like?" Heywood flushed, his expression an unhealthy mix of irritation and anxiety.
In the other painting a young woman with a headband of blue cloth and bayleaves turns to look over her shoulder at us, as if interrupted – her expression just teetering on the edge of irritation.
"Aha," she says, with a wicked grin, and, all trace of irritation gone now, her expression reads, "Trumped".
Yet if revisited now, it looks the expression of a passing mood – partly irritation at humdrum critics who simplistically use authors' intentions or biographies to "solve" texts – albeit disguised by Barthes's characteristic certainty and rhetorical flair.
