Sentence examples for irritating characters from inspiring English sources

Jesse and Celine turn out to be fully formed if somewhat irritating characters.

Wisely cut by Jackson from the "Rings" movies, Bombadil is the Johnny Appleseed of Middle Earth — an idealized, rustic man who is also one of Tolkien's most irritating characters.

The RPG element to Monster Hunter is perhaps not obvious, because there is little here we associate with traditional examples of the genre – the hero's quest, the interminable cutscenes, the irritating characters and, more than anything, the linear progression.

It was to Moore's credit that against all odds he gave the potentially irritating character some believability.

Among today's shows, Fox's "New Girl," in which a fairly irritating character played by Zooey Deschanel moves in with three guys, needed another title within weeks.

Mr. Segel, playing a less irritating character here than in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," manages to be almost as adorable if slightly less ingratiating than his co-star.

At first glance Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" is about nothing more than its main character, a relentlessly cheerful London schoolteacher named Poppy who is either the most endearing or the most irritating character in recent cinema.

The one major alteration Tony Huston made to Joyce's story was to add an eighth-century Irish poem, "Donal Og" (Young Donal, in Lady Gregory's remarkable translation), which is read to the assembled guests by a new and irritating character, Mr Grace.

But because there is no precedent for non-selection on grounds of irritating character, Strauss and his predecessor Paul Downton have allowed a more cogent cricketing argument to be swamped.

Sakura's creation is a result of Kishimoto's desire to make a somewhat irritating character who was well-intentioned.

If not for Quint's great monologue about the horrendous sinking of the USS Indianapolis -- which Shaw, a novelist himself, reportedly mostly wrote -- he might be a rather irritating character.