It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which claims to be a solution of the crisis, is itself a symptom and an irritant of the crisis.
Quotes about irritant (8 Quotes)
In its largest sense, in the geopolitical sense, the agreement today removes a basic irritant in the relations between India and the United States over the last 30 years.
People want the most information they can get about their trip. Their No. 1 irritant is traffic. Our system is the first one not built into a luxury car that can provide them in virtually real time with information about traffic incidents, such as accidents and construction.
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Right now, the worms are just an irritant, but there are a lot of weird things happening -- worms, bomb blasts in Baghdad and Jerusalem -- that are not good for the morale of executives. If that takes a hit, the much-vaunted recovery in business investment might get delayed.
Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.