Sentence examples for faintly annoying from inspiring English sources

I find the device faintly annoying, like some overpolished missionary trying to convert me to the future.

(Browning goes in for such abstractions; identities are concealed, with faintly annoying cuteness, with names like the Bitch, the Artist, the Helpful Men).

The Oxford of The Riot Club, and of the Bullingdon – that "truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness" as Johnson put it – is for most modern undergraduates a distant, faintly annoying myth.

You feel what Mitchell felt about Woodstock: the urge to get back to the garden, fully aware that it can't be, that it's impossible and faintly annoying to think otherwise, but knowing also that people's best intentions are always beautiful.

Natalie Portman's best actress prize for Black Swan is perhaps a reward for miraculously perfect casting: her own, faintly annoying "white swan" characteristics as a performer have been visible in other films for some time, but this picture got exactly the right notes of self-doubt and sexual anxiety out of her.

They bite a faintly annoying guy, who duly turns into a vampire and wants to hang out with them, and he brings along his best mate, a really nice non-vampire human bloke called Stu: all the vampires get a bromance crush, holding back from biting him and he is the Bella Swan of this story.

"No," she answered, appearing faintly annoyed by the question.

Fixing his eyes at last on another character, he seems faintly annoyed that his privacy has been violated.

Fixing his eyes, at last, on another character, he seems faintly annoyed that his privacy has been violated.

"Anthony, the second drip is about 10 minutes after the shot is over," says Mr. Somoroff after five or six takes, sounding faintly annoyed.

"I … got to try Google Glass, if only for a few seconds," he tweeted recently, "Was faintly annoyed at just how interesting I found the experience".