The spellings of some words were more irksome than others.
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Subjection to WTO rules might yet prove more irksome than Brexiteers realise.
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Which will be enough, for many, for its more irksome elements to be overlooked.
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As the economy falters, discontent is rising, and the ruling circle's corruption is growing more irksome.
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It was even more irksome because I had issues with how both of these individuals had done their jobs.
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It's not loud enough to be a serious disruption in a public place, but I found it more irksome than useful nonetheless.
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Naturally, the kids hate each other, and naturally this defensive loathing rapidly gives way to something even more irksome for the grown-ups.
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More irksome to fans than missing out on a VIP experience they already bought, they can't actually cancel their VIP purchase without foregoing the entire concert.
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For sure, everyone here is fun to watch, making it all the more irksome when, perhaps a half-hour before the end, the film runs short of things to say.
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What's far more irksome is Claire's willingness to toss aside the entire bill — one she feels passionately about, if her teary robocall pleas are to be believed — in order to placate the N.R.A. and make Austin go away.
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That could allow Clinton to build up a lead in delegates before the race heads to Northern and Midwestern states where the Sanders message of an economy rigged against American workers could provide her with a more irksome challenge.
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With a story to tell, Richardson the writer of instructional material was distracted, but when the conflict is resolved, about halfway through, we enter a narrative dead zone in which the author's more irksome qualities come to the fore.
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And while the second season's second episode "Reunion" may have finally started answering some of the bigger questions surrounding the park, it also may have finally fixed one of the show's more irksome aspects (for me, anyway): the dinosaur problem.
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Rusty is disappointed to find that her grandmother is different to Beatie in every sense: she disapproves of Peggy's work as a mechanic, is harsh with Charlie, and has clear disdain for Rusty's American accent, clothing, and manners. As challenging as life was in Devon, Rusty finds living with her grandmother even more irksome. She endures her grandmother's snide comments until the beginning of the school term, when Rusty's sent away to school. Her new school, Benwood House, is a strict all-girls boarding school, where she will be living during the week.
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" Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic gave the record two out of five stars, saying that Adams' "fondness for obvious hooks" had "flattened into clichés". Matt O'Leary from Virgin Media criticised the album for Adams's "over-familiar trademark" and very clichéd, made the over-familiar sound of 11 a little more "irksome". O'Leary gave the album two out of five stars. The Sunday Times reviewer Steve Jelbert wrote, "Eleven studio albums into his career, the Canadian rocker returns with a set so devoid of surprises that it could easily have been created with a computer program.
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Nick Levine of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review stating: > However, those critics might just owe them a rethink, because musically- > speaking the Anglo-Swedish trio have managed to suppress their more irksome > tendencies. In fact, 'Choices' finds them adopting an oh-so contemporary > electropop complete with big rubbery synths that Calvin Harris wouldn't cock > a snook at. Crucially, in the process they haven't lost their ability to pen > a proper pop chorus or, for that matter, a middle 8 that swells like an > Olympic gold medallist's chest. Odd-pop? Nope, this is just top pop.
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Stone's Fall is constructed as an intricate and, at almost 600 pages, hefty, puzzle, but because the end of the story is known from the outset, its revelations must be cleverly managed if the plot is to retain sufficient tension. [...] Though [] ignorance might be necessary to ensure that secrets are not uncovered with too great a haste, there is nothing more irksome than a detective stupider than the reader" and also criticized the twist ending "It is regrettable, then, that the urge to contrive a final twist to the tale proves too great for Pears to resist. This sprawling, unconventional, occasionally dazzling novel ends with an unconvincing and unnecessary denouement which serves only to undermine the foundations of the elaborate edifice he has worked so painstakingly to create." The New York Times wrote "Alas, the plot is now a monster and cannot be resolved without the supernatural, sexual deviancy, the precision engineering of high explosives, narcotics and incest.
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