As has Ellen DeGeneres, who managed a solitary year of gratingly nicey-nice criticism before packing up her wares and heading back to daytime television.
His views on race and sex seemed gratingly old-fashioned to some.In this section Fat of the land Quacks unite!
As the head of a richly endowed faculty at New York University, his contempt for the poverty of British universities could sound gratingly complacent.
Just as gratingly, a new treaty delineating his republic's powers has been held up in Russia's parliament (the old agreement, signed in the laissez-faire Yeltsin years, has expired).
With his yachts and multiple homes, Mr Abramovich has a more gratingly lavish lifestyle than did Mr Khodorkovsky.
The sensitive viewer would find strong expression and forceful activity in monumental, freestanding sculpture illogical (i.e., marble should not writhe or fly) and gratingly theatrical.
There's a hashtag, there's a petition, and you can bet your sweet bippy that there'll be some gratingly twee protest of some sort to follow, as a public who can't quite ever let go has its say.
He has sometimes been gratingly off-form, but he's one of contemporary American cinema's few devoted risk-takers.
But there is something gratingly cute about it, something breezily, notebook doodley in its nature that makes me want to smack the half circle off its stupid face.
Spelling Bee is a dippy, spirited mix of the genuinely funny and gratingly fake.
I have never seen a conductor more visibly out of sympathy with his material, nor heard a more drably mechanical account of this supremely Romantic work: no drama, no poetry, gratingly crude dynamics – it could have been a first rehearsal.
