| Although he had irked her so, she had to admit he handled her with such finesse that aroused her admiration. |
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| Brown has always said he is an honest guy, but even mild-mannered Donnelly was irked by Brown continuously sugaring the pill. |
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| What irked me originally, and irks me now, is that two newspapers should have printed what was clearly an overly rosy version of the facts. |
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| His greasy ingratiation irked the Watchkeeper and he clenched his hands to hide the claws that slipped from his fingertips. |
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| He inserted one four-bar phrase, just extending one of the three-bar phrases for an extra measure, which really irked me. |
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| The inaction of the police in this case has irked many concerned citizens of the State. |
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| So I have been somewhat irked to find myself being bedeviled with calls from so-called endowment ambulance-chasers. |
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| Don't get too irked at me for not mentioning this until after making you slog through all my instructions on building policies the hard way. |
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| Lillian watched her stand on the edge of a gray boarded dock playing with seagulls and a particularly irked crab. |
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| Indeed, many boffins are irked by how hale and hearty the venerable model is proving. |
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| His bombastic millenarian populism has long irked his more pragmatic conservative allies. |
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| Sorry to be pedantic but it really irked me for some reason. |
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| I was relieved, even as I felt irked with myself for feeling that relief. |
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| Increased usage of first-class carriages by black people at a time when some suburbs were being Afrikanerized irked Nationalists, who decided to bring Cape Town into line. |
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| He said he himself was often irked by coughs, badly timed applause — and cellphone rings. |
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| Harman bristles, an irked schoolteacher crinkling her nose at the perceived slight, and then explains why no one should belittle her role. |
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| The particular reform that irked Conkling was the then-novel proposal to eliminate patronage in federal civil service hiring. |
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| The general public is irked by the anonymity and indifference of capitalism and resorts instead to familiar and tried and tested networks. |
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| It always irked me that municipalities had to pay GST on any of the projects and any of the purchases that they made. |
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| Others were irked at the runaround they received at from airline personnel about how long the delay was expected to last. |
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| The broadness of the claim irked many in the field, who complained that Affymetrix preferred courtroom battles to market competition. |
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| The news irked the authorities in Bogotá, who denied it in an announcement to the media in the ca pital. |
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| White said the optics won't be good for CSC employees who were irked their chief was globe trotting while guards struggled to hammer out a new contract. |
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| They feel humiliated and degraded, says an irked senior commander. |
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| Leaders of independent states who in any way irked the imperialists were either eliminated or squeezed so hard by the system that they abandoned their opposition. |
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| Were this Zach Curtis-directed Theatre in the Round production less entertaining than it is, I might have been more than mildly irked by Beane's rather artless repetition. |
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| But some are irked by the extensive political posturing around rape, notably survivors and rape-crisis-center workers. |
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| As only she could, Violet had noticed how Althia's reading of them irked him and gleefully added more salt to the wound by laughing merrily whenever she spoke. |
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| Doubtless the car's previous owner would be irked to discover that his car was gone, but he'd likely be amazed if he knew it was being shanghaied to Mercury. |
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| Dresses irked him, let alone such things as bonnets, gloves, and parasols. |
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| In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism. |
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| Possibly Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Rogozin to be irked. |
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| That irked me a little and helped me to focus fully on scoring. |
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| France's decision not to disinvite Putin over the Ukraine crisis irked Harper, who told reporters he planned to ignore the Russian bully-boy. |
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| He was irked Belmont winner Tonalist didn't run in either of the first two legs of the Triple Crown. |
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| I was particularly irked by the fact that Amendments Nos 8 and 9, which I tabled on behalf of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group, were not adopted. |
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| The European Commission will promote underground storage as the safest option for storing nuclear waste, according to a leaked proposal which has already irked environmentalists. |
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| People might be irked that we have spoilt the party by withholding, for now, from some of the trappings of EU super-statehood, but I would point out that it is our national and political right to do so. |
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| Although some members of parliament were irked at Lilburne's release, Parliament had succeeded in suppressing open Leveller dissent. |
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| In this letter, Hughes tried to set Alderson straight, who as a regular and a British officer had always irked the Minister's nationalist sensibilities. |
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| But the Republic Day release date is said to have highly irked Kumar, whose another film has also slated for the same day release. |
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| True, in the beginning her visits irked my colleagues. |
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