For as he considered the irritating presence of Dees and the others, he began to think that he understood their purpose.

But she missed him, missed his warm, comforting, occasionally irritating presence.

If so, you may simply apologize to me and I shall gladly be rid of your irritating presence.

That would have been the honorable thing to do--and, for them, a convenient solution to my irritating presence.

Taen pulled back, tried to thrust the irritating presence from her mind.

The heads that star in Ronald Sloan's two paintings might be bleached, but against rich backgrounds they make their deliberately irritating presence felt.

To the younger folk, Nemoto had been here all their lives, a constant, unique, somewhat irritating presence.

One of those tenants had killed Pardon Albee, whose somewhat irritating presence was already growing faint in my memory.

He might be an irritating presence, but he was a presence nevertheless.

He could sense George behind him, a portly irritating presence.