Word: annoying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millennium goes they will be swept into piles and forgotten," others put a more positive angle on the spats sparked by the list. Alain de Botton says, quite poetically, that "in disagreeing with the judges' choices, we define our own identities as readers. Perhaps the best lists should annoy us most." If this is true, Random House has certainly succeeded...
...important thing," says TV's Homer Simpson to his daughter, "is for your mother to repress what happened, push it deep down inside her so she'll never annoy us again." Though he may not grasp all the nuances, Homer turns out to be just another disciple of Sigmund Freud. That, at least, is one of the revelations to be found in "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," the largest ever exhibition on the founder of modern psychology, set to open next week at the Library of Congress in Washington. Along with some 200 TV and film clips that document Freud...
...would be hard to do more without starting to annoy people," she says...
...Every time you think you answer a question correctly, whisper "Yesss!" to annoy those around...
...secretary countered with the sort of arrogance that I had always thought had been the exclusive preserve of the Apartheid-era bureaucrats: "That's just to annoy our American guests," she said. The insult of the picture, coupled with the injury of the secretary's comment, had combined to produce an effect that was perhaps more powerful than she had realized or even intended...