Indeed there would be less confusion if the Treasury ceased announcing so many of its plans so far in advance, not to say the other irritating practice of reannouncing them as new.
It's an irritating pattern.
While I concede that no one would want to create a whole new system of email police, perhaps we could create an app that would enable fines to be laid on people who engage in this irritating social practice".
It's all produced quite a spectacle, to the extent that Putin -- I'm told miming what he sees as the irritating American practice of delivering moral lectures to other countries -- produced a chutzpah-filled New York Times op-ed taking Obama to task on "American exceptionalism" in particular and American geopolitical strategy in general.
The TPP clearly sought to regulate irritating Chinese trade practices and to forestall their replication as an RCEP model.
While he found attending the group a hugely normalising experience, he found the meditation practices irritating and difficult.
The practice is also ineffably irritating because it ultimately and slyly asserts the triumph of business over the personal: given that there's a higher tolerance for bragging in business than social circles, many falsely modest statements on Twitter and Facebook try to fly under decorum's radar by whispering to their readers, "You're my fan, not my friend".
The Calgary Albertan took note of this practice, commenting "it must be rather irritating for a gentleman like J. W. Hugill, a practitioner at the bar and a King's Counsel withal, skilled and experienced in the art of debate, not to be free to make use of it".
The work of the tabloids can be irritating, provocative, ethically questionable and even (as the scandal spectacularly shows) highly illegal, but when practiced according to existing laws, tabloid journalism can be an important player in modern culture, helping to mitigate some of the central tensions in democratic society.
Try not to practice gutturals in the presence of other people if at all possible; most find it irritating and don't appreciate the work that goes into learning how to do it.
