The New Yorker, April 13 , 1929P. 88 In general, she bears in mind that statements beginning "All women" have just enough truth in them to be irritating, so she always regards them with academic detachment as referring to all women, with one exception.
"Speak your truth" is a cliché, an often irritating one.
And if the truth is that relationships can be awkward, irritating, indistinct and sometimes just boring, then we ought to appreciate this film for pointing it out.
"Less is more" is a trite and irritating phrase, but it's one of the few absolute truths in advertising.
The title is meant to be romantic, but anyone who manages to sit through both irritating acts of this lowest-common-denominator comedy will know that the truth is far more painfully dermatological.
I consider this just one of those irritating lies about the president that his detractors hope to establish as truths by the mere act of repetition.
A didactic strain has dominated the early part of Cannes, and it's rather irritating (I write before Al Gore has turned up to show his environmental film, An Inconvenient Truth).
For the better part of the book, Ms. Byatt inexplicably renounces her copious gifts as a writer to construct a dry, tendentious and thoroughly irritating narrative designed to hammer home a single philosophical point, namely the familiar notion that historical truth often eludes the human rage for order.
As ever, Egoyan is fascinated by the narrowing gap between history and reality, between myth and truth, but this is a by-the-numbers drama, with no believable tension, and there's an irritating visual cheat involved in the way the plot is presented.
That was irritating enough.
