aggravating

Observe he does, with hawk-eyes, reflect he does, engagingly, penetratingly, self-protectively, honestly, and aggravatingly, as when he vividly describes obese English women, seeing in their corpulence something ugly, repulsive, and piggish.

But her Footsteps is a difficult read which aggravatingly leaps from past to present and back again.

BRANDON AND JOEL EMPLOY an aggravatingly simple, two-pronged strategy--they hunt where big bucks live, and they hunt undisturbed deer.

Editing of the mountain of footage captured by multiple Super 16 cameras is aces, kinetic but not aggravatingly so.

The main problem was that most of the items my research would require were aggravatingly hard to find--not so important that major research libraries would organize collections around them, but important enough so that someone "out there" might think to squirrel them away.

From that moment on, Liam has followed and also protected Tej, despite his friend's elitist attitude and his aggravatingly impulsive personality.

Despite a break in the weather - rain began to fall in an aggravatingly fine fashion - the attendance, a quarter of an hour before the advertised time - was one of the best ever seen at Newcastle.

January and I have an ongoing relationship, and that's how alive, how real, how tantalizingly, aggravatingly vivid his author has made him.

The county and federal investigations that began in 2003 will continue in 2005 - an aggravatingly slow pace for those impatient for justice.

The appearance of WYSIWYG (What You See Is Slightly But Aggravatingly Different from What You Get) web editors like Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage make it easier for nonexpert users, but still come with their own learning curves.

It's not like nobody tries to wake up the aggravatingly spineless hero, whom the director often has addressing the camera like a navel-gazer out of a Woody Allen movie.

They emphatically are not explained by Otto von Bismarck's reputed theory that "God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America"--a dictum Mead finds so aggravatingly erroneous that he borrows his title from it and invokes it on at least three additional occasions.

That he has lost none of his famed aggravational touch he proved by coming over all aggravatingly censorious about Andy Caddick and Robert Croft.