Brad Anderson's "Next Stop Wonderland, " which is getting a split decision from yours truly (half a thumb up, if you crave an ill-defined generalization), is cute, no doubt about it, but in annoying ways that are fast becoming the calling card of the format.
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Even if a six year old son is in The Annoying Music Show Witness Protection Program.
Fancy cars quickly reveal themselves to be huge pains in the ass: stick shift is senselessly annoying in the city and the wheels are constantly acquiring minute, infuriating blemishes.
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Is the end in sight for annoying, pointless announcements on trains?
These two students are certainly not alone in finding aggression annoying.
Like the rest of us, Gaylord has sat in movie theaters and witnessed that annoying glow as people in row after row check their cellphone screens for messages even while the film is playing.
They include the device, entertaining and annoying in equal measure, of periodic appearances by Michael Gambon as Julia's long-dead acting teacher, who keeps reminding her that the only reality is the theater, and anything else is fantasy.
At points, the novel is like the diary of a stranger's dreams: beautiful in patches but ultimately annoying.
What they also have in common is a resolute cheerfulness in the face of annoying questions about how much longer a recovery is going to take.
The director, Allen Baron, also stars as Frankie Bono, who arrives in New York the day before Christmas to do a job on a mid-level mobster and gets tangled in a skein of annoying practicalities.
Investigators from the FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas hope that a reward announced Wednesday may help locate the individual who has now sent an estimated 380 white-powder envelopes since he first began his annoying practice in 2008.
It's in the interest of even the most annoying "all-rounder" (as we say in India), who is better than me at everything, to specialize in those tasks in which our gap is the biggest and trade with me for those in which our gap is smaller.
No doubt there will be some benefits: fraud, in particular the persistent and increasingly annoying problem of identity theft, might be substantially reduced if biometric-identification systems, introduced in the form of passports, visas and identity cards, become widespread.
There you have it: Music that gets stuck in your head can be annoying, but it also serves a multitude of other purposes that benefit you.
Yes, New York's infatuation with its New York-ness is hopeless and mostly annoying, but in this instance it is really true: There is no hothouse quite like the Yankee hothouse, and to remain emotionally intact, as Rivera has done for so many years, should be held up as some kind of marvel alongside those freakish numbers for saves (608) and postseason earned-run average (0.70).
Vacation towns empty out in the off-season but then fill up again each year, which could get annoying for ghosts who want to settle in year-round.
The trouble is that any kind of friction in a mobile payments system is annoying and will lead many to conclude they are better off sticking with cash.
The genius in the ad seems marginally less annoying than the real Apple geniuses giving you attitude behind the bar at retail stores, but critics have been harsh.
Although smoking rooms are becoming more rare, it can be annoying to find yourself in a smoking room if you check in late and they are the only rooms available.
You can't tease people too much in press and publicity because it becomes annoying.
We played, in the very early days of The Annoying Music Show we played the Paul Anka version.
You can, for example, stick a tape in the thing and walk around, annoying old people and scaring cats.
If it weren't for the annoying chore of appeasing fans in the interim, many teams could build a championship core within five years.
Somewhat annoying was a message embedded in each audio track and a pop-up urging us to go to sign up for a "free lifetime account" to a much more content-rich Internet course.
This is what Jim Nayder does for a living: He listens to really bad music, much of it sent in to him by listeners of his Annoying Music Show on Chicago Public Radio.
A. employee, who lives in Los Angeles to be near his immensely annoying grown daughter (Maggie Grace).
But Exxon Mobil is learning a different lesson: Don't get sued in Alabama--its legal system is annoying.
More annoying to Ryan was that, in The Supreme Commander, Ambrose no longer attributed the quotes to Ryan, but rather to himself.
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