It threw us for a loop not because New Yorkers are not obnoxious, but because Donald Trump's kind of obnoxiousness has always seemed to be atypical of New York values, and even, to put it bluntly, a kind of tourist trap for people from Texas who think his is anything like the real New York obnoxiousness.
It strikes me now that there can be few clearer signs of obnoxiousness than an 11-year-old's use of the word "obnoxious".
"There's something that's a tad obnoxious about Bondi," says Boshier. "You either live here and know the obnoxiousness or you don't live here and it's like: 'Eugh – Bondi.' People are so beautiful here".
She is brusque and unkind to the point of obnoxiousness for much of the time but also capable of great generosity.
But Rockwell is still often found as a second stringer – amid the support casts of The Assassination of Jesse James...and Frost/Nixon, or playing a brattish villain in Iron Man 2, even upstaging Robert Downey Jr with sheer showboat obnoxiousness.
Hall insists he was misquoted, particularly over the Lynx comment, insisting he hadn't worn it since he was 12. Any list looking at obnoxiousness should include Kanye West, who has made outlandish statements and bizarre lifestyle choices his calling cards.
His (literally) wired narcissist hero is such a gabbler that everyone else has to raise their game to talk around or over him – notably Sam Rockwell, playing a rival whose thoroughgoing obnoxiousness is designed to make Stark look slightly less of a blowhard.
Greenberg is a delicately observed, very well acted character study that is undermined by the utter obnoxiousness of its main character.
Any expat Brit in America, let alone a chat show host, knows the narrowness of the territory that separates caustic British wit from tiresome British obnoxiousness.
They want to see a certain level of obnoxiousness tempered by a covetable lifestyle and a raging commitment to beauty, and probably most people are OK with being portrayed that way, even the designers who have a tendency to be sensitive and vain".
Kramer came off as a weird mixture of Jerry Rubin and Mahatma Gandhi: three parts obnoxiousness and one part righteous indignation.
