The film is marred slightly by an over-abrupt ending and the irritating device of speeded-up clocks, but these are minor flaws in a film that has grown in stature over the years.
The Alphabetical Takeaway is a singularly irritating device in which a different letter of the alphabet is ignored in the wordplay to each of 26 clues: for instance, "I'm a superhero" might result in BOATMAN (a double-definition, if you ignore the "O" in one of them) and "Disney's first white-knuckle ride" might clue WALTZER (this time, ignoring the "Z").
"Prince of the Clouds" has its knowing literary references, its didactic pretensions and some deeply irritating devices at the end, which try to force-feed the reader with a dose of geopolitical significance; but it also has life and substance.
There's an irritating narrative framing device, wherein Animal is supposedly speaking into a tape machine, which is quickly forgotten until its unwelcome return in the final pages.
If the technology can be trusted then it should be used, which is why it is irritating that other devices, such as Hot Spot, are not being used in the World Cup.
Teenagers on buses are going to get considerably more irritating if the latter device becomes a successful commercial reality.
Even though I am a Townsend fan, this did not strike me as her funniest book, and various of her devices - notably an irritating collection of talking dogs - left me cold.
A vaporizer -- and I'm only going to say this one time, so listen up -- is a nifty device that voids the production of irritating toxic and carcinogenic by-products by heating the 'material' so its active compounds boil off into vapor.
"Frankly, my purse selection is more about utilitarian than how it looks," said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, explaining that her bags are always "big enough to carry one or two iPads, an Air book, a Hotspot, and a little bit of extra reading for irritating times I have to turn off my devices when we take off and land".
According to rail officials, riders and complaints on social media, the devices have been breaking down with irritating frequency, resulting in missed trains, lines at stations, lost revenue and commuters worried about being cited for boarding without paying fares.
You may also want to re-consider your daily Clarisonic use -- cleansing devices trap bacteria in their bristles and can have the same irritating effect as an everyday scrub, Dr. Downie says.
