What I like about them is the lack of irritating and inappropriate background music which TV programmes seem to have all the time, even on the news.
Most of the time, the war feels for Jaan like background noise, a constant, irritating humming, that can only be drowned out by the Afghan pop music playing on the small radio in his yard.
The heads that star in Ronald Sloan's two paintings might be bleached, but against rich backgrounds they make their deliberately irritating presence felt.
I heard a variety of irritating mechanical noises, although threaded deeply in the background was the inaudibly basslike "mmmm"'s of human intonation.
I sat at a table in the deep background of a shot with an irritating Canadian girl, unable to summon the energy to get away from her strident opinions on everything.
"People say I am an only kid, a spoilt only boy from a middle-class family, I do find it intensely irritating that they always say 'Jewish, north-west London background' – they don't often say 'Catholic, north-east background', or whatever.
V. S. Pritchett came from a working-class background, and found Orwell's proletarian affectations rather irritating… The New Yorker offers a signature blend of news, culture, and the arts.
Margaux: The irritating thing is that the lyrics are not bad, but the background noises are annoying enough to make me want to turn it off.
Trying to update applications in the background slowed the tablet down to a crawl, with missed button taps, hangs and generally irritating sluggish performance.
That was irritating enough.
