"I thought you were meant to make things up, you know, like a novelist". The prime source of Amis's irritation turns out to be Powell's forthcoming novella, O, How the Wheel Becomes It!
And that sense of irritation came out in subsequent polls suggesting Osborne hadn't quite got the hang of a national psyche for which the term bolshie often seems inadequate.
"I really try to design irritations out of people's lives and to bring in elements that will make them feel better," said Clodagh, who has followed the tenets of feng shui for 25 years and designed a number of wellness studios and spas, including YogaWorks in SoHo, Sasanqua Spa at the Kiawah Island Club in South Carolina and White Horses Spa at Doonbeg Lodge in Ireland.
Those irritations out of the way though, chants turned to "I pay taxes, why don't you?" A question so completely reasonable seems to sum up why this sort of shonky dealing has caught the public imagination.
Dealing with the constant irritation of children acting out, fighting, running around and doing everything they are not supposed to do, is inevitable.
Mr. Blair had voiced his irritation at finding out that France and Germany had struck what his spokesman today called a "pre-cooked summit deal" that would largely preserve generous farm subsidies and delay for many years changes long sought by Britain.
Particles only two microns (0.002 millimetre) in size are wrapped in mucus and transported by other cilia to special food grooves, along which they pass to the mouth by the action of yet further cilia; particles that are too large, too heavy, or capable of producing irritation are sorted out and rejected by various mechanical means.
On a trip abroad three years ago he showed a flash of irritation - lashing out at foreigners in some of the only unguarded comments he's ever really made.
Wakefield never seemed too perturbed by my questions; if he felt any irritation, he took it out on his GPS, which he seemed to think was out to get him, just like his critics.
In vivo eye irritation study was carried out by a modified Draize test.
