That symbol would also be a fitting provocation: if it proved irritating, that feeling of irritation might stand most evocatively for the history in question.
He was both irritable and irritating, equally adept at feeling intense irritation and dishing it out.
In "Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself," Lipsky writes that he was relieved by Wenner's fiat that he shouldn't write the piece, rather than experiencing it as a loss somewhere on the scale between devastating and irritating — the usual range of feelings available to a journalist upon having a piece killed.
Patients can seek to gain the favour of nurses, keep them feeling happy, and avoiding irritating them, in order to smooth their clinic experiences.
The way Mr. Currin hides genuine feeling behind coy facades is irritating, but his paintings remain fascinatingly bizarre.
The lousy feelings and thoughts that come from irritating or unfortunate obstacles don't have to be swept under the rug though -- it's counterproductive to blow off your feelings.
Reznor was apparently not happy that Keenan performed the song: "I have to admit I find it mildly irritating for "Vacant" to debut in this fashion before feeling it has been properly realized," Reznor said in a post on the Nine Inch Nails official website.
So long as he lived he committed the irritating maladroitness to be someone other in his thinking and feeling than ourselves!
Ross famously saw failure and disappointment lurking everywhere, and he seemed to almost enjoy feeling embattled; his beleaguered vigilance was part of what made him charming, irritating, and successful.
The pattern is unvarying and ultimately irritating and the absence of romantic development is paralleled by choreography that, lacking a feeling for pace, proceeds in a series of false climaxes.
The prisoners' moods can be affected by a variety of things: the feeling of uncertainty in the run up to an imminent sentencing, an irritating new cellmate, an unhelpful officer on the wing.
