They are forward, sometimes gratingly so, and very serious about their work.

She took up the chorus lustily, her voice gratingly off key.

Frank gratingly reminded Herman of his origins and perhaps true nature.

I have never been here before," she said gratingly.

"I'd like to have tried you," he said gratingly.

She projects only one emotion - a gratingly annoying hysteria.

His blows grew stronger, until, with a sudden give, the wheel moved gratingly.

Forays into the past are triggered by gratingly literal associations.

Shot in black-and-white video, "Attitude" has a gratingly random look.

"This is your heir, and I am your wife," she said gratingly.

But the new clean isn't gratingly hygienic - it's luxurious.

Louise's decorum was always meticulously formal and correct, gratingly so.

"You don' t have to do this," he said gratingly as he watched her.

Each of the narrators has a good 10-minute monologue, and they're all ingratiating, sometimes gratingly so.

Instead, it has a gratingly loud laugh track, which shows no signs of becoming contagious.

He raised the lower sash which came gratingly.

And he raised his arm high, bringing the point of his spear gratingly along the carved surface.

"You'll be saying next that Hartnell and his wife are being framed, too," he said gratingly.

She gave Lucas a gratingly professional smile.

Frank Locke laughed, and his laugh was gratingly mirthless.

"When push comes to shove," he said gratingly, "gentlemen fight with any weapon they can lay hand to.

He slanted his mouth into a humourless smile, laughed gratingly. '

Republicans had been leery of Little Ricky's gratingly unsubtle ambition.

Nothing, except the film never believed appearances didn't matter in the first place, and Rose's cosmetic triumph is so gratingly overdone.

In other Kennedy-related movies, actors' renditions of the famous accent have gratingly overshadowed all else.