But this is an error of taste, not a fatal mistake, and though it's undeniably irritating, it fails to diminish the play's impact, just as Mr. Albee's occasional lapses into preachiness ("We are not talking about the rights we pretend we give ourselves in this bewildered land of ours") are mere surface flaws.

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It's a terrible mess but it's a temporary mess, I mean it's not a deep wound for the Labour Party, it's a irritating rash, and now we've got to stop scratching it and get on with something more serious.

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And when it's windy, there's an irritating dust.

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Stewart -- like Theron -- carries off a serviceable English accent and mostly refrains from those irritating Bella-isms, but it's not so easy to take her seriously as the messianic resistance leader that Sanders seems to have in mind (you get the feeling the director thinks he's auditioning for the next "Narnia" movie, or even Middle Earth).

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He added that it had become intensely irritating to customers and was "also damaging the UK's reputation around the world from a business perspective".

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But it serves as a constant and irritating reminder, in the midst of the banking industry's frenzied consolidation, that mergers are no substitute for good housekeeping.

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