Sentence examples for plain annoying from inspiring English sources

Think of a film like "Full Metal Jacket" and you start to wonder whether its mood — etiolated, vicious, vinegar-thin — flowed not from the coolness of Stanley Kubrick but from the plain, annoying fact that, eight years before, Francis Ford Coppola had called all the shots.

It veers from the sublime, to the sublimely ridiculous, to the plain annoying.

But when you find yourself squeaking through a complicated mission only to be killed (again) at the end, it's just plain annoying.

Driving directions are sometimes eccentric; suggestions for public transport can be unreliable; trying to learn about the Massachusetts State House in Boston when your phone insists you are across the river in Cambridge is plain annoying.

Perhaps the ultimate litmus test for whether Sleepy Hollow is your kind of thing is whether Crane's insistence on Ye Olde (that is … British) pronunciation of "lieutenant" each time he addresses Mills is swoon-worthy or just plain annoying.

Now, with so many real-life families struggling to fill the gas tank and pay the grocery bill, Mr. Gurney's story of a self-absorbed clan whose biggest problem is whether the maid can cook a roast is in danger of registering as just plain annoying.

Dick Cheney, on the other hand, appeared angry, mean and even at times plain annoyed.

Some make you run around the room chasing some rolling or flying component, some make you assemble puzzle pieces, and some just plain annoy the hell out of you.

Gwen sets out to seek her fortune, much in the tradition of Jane Eyre: an orphan who sees herself as plain, inept and annoying.

Its just plain mean and annoying.

Because it's just plain stupid and annoying.