Literary notes about nuisance (AI summary)
Literary authors deploy the term “nuisance” as a flexible label for both tangible annoyances and metaphorical impediments to personal or social order. In some works, it describes the weight of an ever-present, minor irritation—a personal or physical encumbrance that disrupts everyday life ([1],[2])—while in others it becomes emblematic of broader societal troubles, highlighting the tension between individual liberty and communal harmony ([3],[4]). Moreover, the word is employed to capture both the absurdity and inevitability of inconvenient circumstances, serving as a succinct commentary on everything from trivial family disputes to legal and institutional failures ([5],[6]).
- But what a nuisance it will be, Chained to his bedside night and day Without a chance to slip away.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin - What a nuisance that I have to go to school!
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi - The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill - Abatement of nuisances is the remedy allowed to a person injured by a public or private nuisance, of destroying or removing it himself.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - And it's a nuisance—it interferes with everything.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery - Smoking was permitted in the public room; it was then so much in vogue that it does not seem to have been considered a nuisance.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers
