But he did have an infuriating habit.

She had this infuriating habit of appearing not to notice him when he was excited about something.

But he did have an infuriating habit of guessing correctly.

And that achingly infuriating habit some people have of adding (mis-using, to boot) words like: 'Random!'

On the other hand, Cherry Cat had the most infuriating habit of obeying him at the worst conceivable times.

Then she was aware of Arthur behind her, heard his infuriating habit of clearing his throat.

One of the most infuriating habits of the scientifically illiterate is to talk of the 'ice age' as if there had been only one.

Still... Old Earthers have an infuriating habit of blaming the motherworld's problems on the rest of us.

And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns.

The problem with such devices is that they further enable the novel's infuriating habit of having most of the major events take place offstage.