irritatingly

He found her standing midway between the giant’s feet, talking quickly to the most irritatingly handsome boy Jack had ever seen.

And when Lucy’s brother asks a suspicious transplant from Vault 31 how the two bunkers differ, she provides the purposely bland and irritatingly evasive answer: “I guess the mashed potatoes were a little different.”

The epitome of low-budget high concept, this impressively sustained but often irritatingly overwritten real-time exercise features an ever-assured Johnson as a streetwise young traveler and Sean Penn as her very loquacious cab driver.

If you’ve been anywhere near a TV screen during a football game in recent months, you might be familiar with these words and the irritatingly catchy melody they are set to.

As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on.