There was no irritation on his part.

JN And how can you avoid being annoyed by her?

Then there are cases of stridency or severe irritation.

Now, obviously I said this in a fit of mild irritation.

Needless to say, there are no such hang ups in many of the high growth economies of Asia.

Others chafe at the burden of US bases, particularly on the island of Okinawa.

It varies from warning other cars that there is a speed radar nearby, to showing affection, or anger sometimes.

Angela Colmenares Sabino questions the right of the theme park to exist as an education and conservation facility

Also, armchair shopping gets rid of the frustrations of crowds and traffic.

A steups is a noise that Trinbagonians make by sucking air through their teeth, usually to express annoyance or disapproval.

What is surprising though is the reaction (at home and abroad) to General Makashov s tantrums and the actions and inactions in the Duma and Communist Party.

Most of all for your sake,' he repeated, his face contorted as with pain, 'because I am convinced that a great deal of your irritability is due to our indefinite position.'

Neither of them spoke of the cause of their irritation, but each thought the other in the wrong, and at every opportunity tried to prove that this was so.

Remembering him as a thin, active, good natured, and noble boy, always at the head of his class, Vronsky could not understand the cause of the agitation, nor approve of it.

'That is not the reason,' she said, 'and I can't even understand how what you call my irritability can be caused by that I am entirely in your power.

Hardly a week goes by without some addition to the already long list of European American gripes and irritants. One week it is the UN Security Council vote about a continued US presence in the Bosnia peacekeeping mission.

Hardly a week goes by without some addition to the already long list of European American gripes and irritants.

Snog her first the snog having become the most common expression of erotic irritation between men and women an antidote to the bland ballads of love the console pumped out snog her first and cuff her later.

But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed the US had grown so powerful relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America s closest allies.

And the study showed that, compared to other buildings, there is a reduced incidence of eye irritation by 52 percent, respiratory systems by 34 percent, headaches by 24 percent, lung impairment by 12 percent and asthma by nine percent.

How is it that you can forget that a woman cannot forget these things?' she said, getting more and more heated and thereby betraying the cause of her irritation. 'Especially a woman who cannot know your life.

But despite being in a different land, we were free men, and we had also left behind us seven years of dark cells, vexation, humiliation, malnutrition, nights of insomnia, and sudden jolts every horror of prison, made worse by the lack of motive for being there.

But holding 300 Lebanese and nearly 10,000 Palestinians all of the first group and many of the second group without charge or trial has proven to be a major source of irritation to the Arab peoples of the region.