They spoke of the greatness of their calling, of the necessity of sympathy to face its irksome details, of a certain loneliness they sometimes felt.

That was why he was riding the midnight rounds rather than leaving so irksome a detail to the guard-sergeant, as any of his peers would have done.

Because," Nicci said, gesturing in exasperation at having to try to recall the irksome details, "I had you hobbled under my ability and she knew that if she made a move I would have killed you first.

If Prost wins, then he takes the title with him to Ferrari and, in exchange for the highly desirable numbers 1 and 2 the Italians will present 27 and 28 to McLaren, a particularly irksome detail for such a dominant team to accept.

It is, without doubt, a convenient theory which I would be happy to embrace were it not for one, small, irksome detail.

Jay had shrugged off that irksome little detail on the way to the bank.

And yet, these irksome details just served to heighten my feeling of hazyheadedness, the exact effect I assume Linklater was shooting for when he choose rotoscoping in the first place.

All these fit young men in green were so happy to run errands and see to all the irksome details of travel because they were deeply and personally devoted to her daughter and her daughter's family, as well.

When his play slipped last season, the irksome details of his relationship with management seemed harder to justify for team officials.