Such problems are especially irksome to first-time visitors used to Western amenities.

To the residents, many of whom moved to the Catskills to escape pollution and the urban hullabaloo, the constant noise is especially irksome.

But New York officials see the IKEA advertisement as especially irksome for two reasons.

An American agreement with Ireland was especially irksome to Churchill.

While this could have happened with any group, given our age bracket it was especially irksome.

What compensation consultants find especially irksome about the blowup is that most companies already value their options for internal purposes, and have been doing so for 15 years.

Maybe it's something in the air, but American media companies have proved especially irksome to foreign buyers.

The play of the sophomore guard Daryll Hill must have been especially irksome.

Especially irksome to Anglophones are the "language police" of the Commission for the Protection of the French Language.

On more than one occasion, Keith has been asked for a hammer, which is then used to destroy a piece of electronic equipment playing something especially irksome.