Word: annoy
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...olfactory experience of eating scallops and daikon radish in a Brazil-nut puree. Dining chatter revolves around how they are going to serve, let alone create, dishes like "12-year Gouda ice cream with balsamic vinegar." Moto, a whiplash blend of science and art, will captivate some and annoy others. Most dishes triumph (especially the fish courses), while some--well, maybe we're not quite ready for them. Yet. --By Kristin Kloberdanz
...rule that I don’t like to take a class without at least four of my teammates in it. That way, even if it is extremely boring, we can entertain each other. And by “entertain each other”, I guess I mean I annoy them, distract them and make them laugh...
...Miss Manners, Titus Maccius Plautus discerned the truth about hospitality. "No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days," wrote ancient Rome's great playwright. With the holiday-travel season upon us, there are ample opportunities to annoy friends and family with burdensome visits. For that reason, TIME checked in with two experts, Letitia Baldrige and Peter Post--both out with new etiquette books--for advice on how to be a well-mannered houseguest...
...want to annoy Satoshi Kon, ask him why he makes cartoons. Suggest that instead of toiling away in his smoky studio drawing mundane Tokyo street scenes, he might be better off investing in a movie camera and just filming the city in all its quotidian banality. Kon's response will start before you finish your sentence. His eyes will narrow, his lips will curl into a sneer, and with a quiet menace he'll recite the line that has become his mantra through countless interviews and film-festival question-and-answer sessions: "I'm an anim? director...
...should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.” Truly, here was a maxim that all red-blooded Americans, the heirs of Jefferson and Washington, could rally behind (as long as the rally didn’t annoy John Ashcroft...