Among the cultural and social transgressions led by Novo and Villaurrutia, a less scandalous but in the long-term more subversive (or establishment-irritating) event took place: Ulises, the first modernist journal, was born.
Inevitably deprived of these, the baseball telecast is but an imprecise and irritating summation of events.
Whenever you experience a stressful event – an irritating phone call, rude email or a meeting that doesn't go your way, try doing the following exercise.
The Socialist Workers' party and their newspaper sellers have long been a recognisable, and – to other activists – rather irritating presence at leftwing events.
In fact, these details intertwine, and the drink now epitomises seasonal events featuring irritating rich people: trilbied fops in preposterous blazers; hawing women in silly hats; drunken trustafarians lounging on riverbanks; fans of Nigel Farage doorstepping ahead of European elections.
As a work of narrative history, this volume, like its predecessors, combines detailed narration of events with irritating rhetorical tics, like the alternation of long paragraphs with dramatic single sentences that sometimes fade into ellipses: "Everyone assumed the immediate impendence of a historic White House legislative proposal, a proposal bound to raise a storm of controversy......
Oskar, at three, refused to grow any more, and became a small, irritating, persistent witness to 20th-century events that most Germans wished to forget.
But now, with television's newfound star status and the Internet-driven demand for recapping, it isn't surprising that networks have turned this once irritating necessity into a full-blown marketing event.
In my New Year's manifesto for the arts, I said that something must happen about those iniquitous booking fees and other irritating charges that ticket buyers for arts events are landed with.
Barth has an irritating habit of dropping in references to passing current events -- the Bosnian war, the Lewinsky affair, the millennium bug.
