Though she initially plays her mother's illness for laughs, reflecting a child's typical annoyance at a parent's limitations, she gradually allows the character of Ann Kron to seem better adjusted and more productive than herself.
Like the characters, the musical's nods to typical subway annoyances (service changes, swiping problems) feel generic, as do the lessons about appreciating the journey that inevitably follow.
UberConference, for those unaware, presents users with an attractive, visualized interface for calls which also helps address typical conference call annoyances like the inability to figure out who's making all that racket in the background and mute them.
The work was "very dull," the reader insisted, "a dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions".
Alfred A. Knopf Inc. found it "very dull," dismissing it as a "dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions".
Last year, for example, researchers rooting through 50 years of Knopf archives discovered readers' reports rejecting Anne Frank's diary ("A dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotion"), Borges ("utterly untranslatable") and Sylvia Plath ("There certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice").
When we mutter "Typical!" we are expressing annoyance and resentment, but also a sort of grudging, humorous forbearance and there is even an element of perverse satisfaction: we may have been inconvenienced by the rain and the endless queues, but we have not been taken unawares.
When we mutter "Typical!" we are expressing annoyance and resentment, but also a sort of grudging, humourous forbearance – and there is even an element of perverse satisfaction: we may have been inconvenienced by the rain and the endless queues, but we have not been taken unawares.
On a typical day, even a minor annoyance could provoke Mezher to throw a nearby object a water bottle, a chair, a glowing hookah coal at a subordinate, and more than once I'd seen him shoot his Kalashnikov a few inches to the right or left of some terrified offender.
In what was to become a typical pattern of cavalier behavior, he paid no attention to the annoyance of neighbors.
Knowing communication style prevents misinterpreting someone's curt e-mail as annoyance or anger if you're aware of his typical brusqueness.
