Word: irking
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...Snowdon, the couple had two children and they enjoyed an active lifestyle that was unconventional for a royal at the time. There were parties with pop stars, writers and actors like Peter Sellers, a favorite of Margaret's. But eventually the constraints and duties of royalty began to irk Snowdon. After about seven years, the marriage began to disintegrate and blazing rows were common. In 1974 Margaret suffered a nervous breakdown. Four years later the couple divorced, an event somewhat shocking to a nation as yet unused to much light being shed on private rifts and crises inside the royal...
...loop somewhere before, and the lyrics certainly aren’t going to save the album: Like Portishead, you’re doing well if you can make out anything of what the lead singer is singing about. The lack of any song with a definite groove begins to irk, and even the songs themselves seem to suffer from a lack of material. Not only is there song called “24 Hours,” but also “73 Hours,” which borrows a chunk of its melody from Enya’s easy...
...Wandering dazed and footsore through those hot dry halls is to be accosted by advertising, mugged by marketing and interred by informercials. "Wave your hands in the air!" yelled one painfully hip stall barker in beret and shades. "Who gives you world-class storage solutions?" (Just to irk the company responsible, I won't provide the answer). Another stall, decked out in palm trees, featured an Indiana Jones-style adventurer with fake chest muscles hacking through fake undergrowth while screaming into a microphone: "It's a jungle in today's tech world!" Even the keynotes have lost all philosophical pretensions...
...seven-on-seven game has done nothing but irk me over the last two years, as frisbees whizzed by my head while I tried to traverse the MAC Quad...
...Florida stays red after the 2000 election fiasco is an exercise in denial. And when the census gets its close-view, block-by-block count finished in March, those urban and minority head-counts will give Bush a chance to address the problems with his election in Florida - or irk those groups all over again...