31. The pace is slow ( sometimes irritatingly so ) and the stories are predictable ( ditto ). 32. But the understatement Birch brings to what could have easily been an irritatingly overplayed part proves integral. 33. As an electric-guitar piece, it is irritatingly tepid, and it seemed especially so here. 34. Irritatingly , there were no music credits on the program, but Bach and Handel could be heard.35. "He's got the strongest focus of anyone I know, sometimes irritatingly ," 36. "Henry Fool " ( R ) _ More challenging but irritatingly oblique foolishness from Hal Hartley. 37. The likely cartoon corpse is Maude Flanders, wife of the Simpsons'irritatingly effervescent neighbor, Ned Flanders. 38. Glitches with the medical center's new high-speed Internet and phone service have become irritatingly routine. 39. The pacing of the movie is irritatingly slow, and even the street fights and boxing bouts are listless. 40. The text, on the other hand, is in an irritatingly small and hard-to-read typeface.
