Sentence examples for irritating book from inspiring English sources

This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason.

Until, in the final turn of the plot, in a playful moment of dramatic genius that redeems this ponderous, often irritating book, Delia's heart is broken and she unties the knot for good.

Mr. Hitchens made it clear that his pugnacity would be with him until the last: "This is an extraordinarily irritating book," he began, later saying of one of Mr. Mamet's opinions that it "has a long way to go before it can even be called simplistic".

At the beginning of his urban memoir, writer and broadcaster Robert Elms recounts his mother's dying words: "This is no longer my London". Over the course of his engaging, if occasionally irritating, book, Elms reflects on the ways in which his native city has changed.

In fact Fielding's novel was subject to an almost instant backlash – in this paper, Decca Aitkenhead sniffed: "Bridget Jones is merely a depressing character in an irritating book, but she is already in danger of turning into a social type" – but that does not seem to have harmed sales.

But it didn't feel like an irritating moral book being preached to you (the sort of book adults recommend to teenagers).

Ms. Matossian's second agenda, which is increasingly irritating as the book wears on, is to be the savior of Gorky.

Jonathan Franzen, no friend to the rapid onward march of technology, has now turned his ire on Twitter, reportedly describing the microblogging site as "unspeakably irritating" at a book reading.

Muhammad fought 19 military campaigns.The most irritating aspect of the book, however, is not its content, or its logical lapses, but its tone.

What makes this book so irritating is Peterson's failure to follow many of the rules he sets out with such sententiousness.

Mr. de Botton also displays an irritating tendency in this book to deliver common-sense statements with an oracular and self-congratulatory air.