Word: annoyance
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thinking into a song a second ago. The lyrics seem much more real than ones describing this kind of experience should. Each track is uniquely Morrissey, using his charms to the fullest without coasting on his charisma. The biggest fault of these tracks is that the background has an annoying 80s-synthy sound. Although this would annoy me on most tracks, it is particularly frustrating in back of powerful, meaningful lyricism like “The Youngest Was the Most Loved,” a look at parents’ inability to hide their kids from the world?...
...Showtunes,” and released it as an album. No grand, sprawling ruminations on age-old concepts (as in “69 Love Songs”); no coy word games (as in 2004’s “i”) that alternately charm and annoy the critics. Still, this album has a lot to unpack. Director Chen Shi-Zheng, Merritt’s theatrical collaborator, builds his drama on age-old stories that, like a puzzle, simultaneously attract and deflect the audience. Unsurprisingly, the plays are all built on somewhat macabre premises...
...teacher Nina Garsoian used to tell me, “Ne drazni gusei! Don’t annoy the geese!” Larry didn’t get the message to stay away from the well-fed flock of lunatic leftist puritanical geese on the Faculty. Apparently he thought being the president of America’s oldest and most prominent university gave him the right to do something other than fundraising—even the right to exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo...
...know that that would work now. When we had more space, more money and less obsession with losing readers, editors were quicker to print what they thought was funny just because they thought it was funny. Now they're more likely to wonder, Is it really funny? Will it annoy people? Maybe we should show a focus group...
...Some tales set Joseph's age at the time of the betrothal at as high as 91. Several portrayed Jesus in his father's workshop, keeping busy by magically correcting Joseph's building errors. Most alarming is The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, in which Jesus strikes dead playmates who annoy him, and other adults beg Joseph to teach his "son" how "to bless and not to curse." He tries to do so, at one point yanking Jesus' ear, only to have Jesus growl something along the lines of "Do not vex me" (manuscripts differ...