Word: annoyer
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...says, "is easy. But it is full of pitfalls. You can overbalance a house with the furnishings . . . Today's modern furniture is mostly glamorized boxes. Furniture must help balance a home ... It should so blend with the wallpaper and contours of the room that it does not annoy...
Last week in a criminal court, Léon and Madeleine faced French justice. Why had they done these terrible things? "I just wanted to annoy him," explained Madeleine. "I only did it after she called me a 'Boche,'" said Léon. "You can imagine how I felt. After all, I'm Alsatian...
...replies Morris might have made, he chose one best calculated to annoy the committee and cast doubts on his own judgment. Said Morris: "Well, if you want to look at it from another point of view, think what a dreadful thing they did to the Communist economy. They deprived them of dollars . . . They helped to draw dollars out of Russia. Was that not good...
...Organizer? Lodge is a highly successful professional politician. In his office file, he keeps the names of 40,000 Massachusetts constituents. He knows what will please the voters of his state and what will annoy them. But he has never built a political organization in Massachusetts, nor does he work closely with the Republican machine there. In Massachusetts, as in the Senate, he is a bit of a lone operator, popular but not a team type...
...usually meet in scenes charged with emotional or physical violence, frequently both, and almost always the heel has a field day at the expense of someone better but weaker (Butterfield 8, Appointment in Samarra, scores of tough, tense short stories). Usually O'Hara makes it plain that heels annoy him almost as strongly as he is drawn to them. In his last novel, the bestselling A Rage to Live, he was almost as sympathetic to the betraying wife as he was to the hurt husband...