Possible Clues:

• More antsy
• One check bank accepts is more aggravating
• Start off showing more malice, becoming more irritating
• In jug with no opening for parole, one's increasingly irritated
• Current row involving church is more irritating
• His heart attack - the second - made Reich more restless
• More irritating
• International row about church that's more annoying
• Republican underpinning urge that is causing more irritation
• The heartless rich I suspect to be more irritating