How To Use Vexing In A Sentence

  • I found their attitude extremely vexing.
  • At the outset it is necessary to confront a particularly vexing problem. The Sociology of Modernization and Development
  • I have had to live out some of her unlived life," she said of her difficult, vexing mother. Radio review: Book of the Week: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
  • Pear psylla is a cicada-like pest with a vexing tendency to develop resistance to insecticides. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • All of which raises vexing questions about the government's increasingly shaky energy policy, parts of which seem stuck in the old world. Times, Sunday Times
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  • A general parish meeting could be a fountain of fine ideas and not at all as vexing as some of the reverends might shudder to contemplate.
  • The question vexing the government 's PR minders is whether they have spotted which bit could cause the most trouble. Times, Sunday Times
  • First world problems, as they say, but still vexing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Related: Illinois 'MAP grant dilemma vexing students News from www.pantagraph.com
  • If your grey matter won't produce a solution to a vexing problem - sleep on it. Times, Sunday Times
  • At the outset it is necessary to confront a particularly vexing problem. The Sociology of Modernization and Development
  • They were disappointed that invoking space quantization failed to elucidate the vexing problem of the ‘anomalous’ Zeeman effect, the complex splitting patterns of spectral lines in a magnetic field.
  • Vexing demands for snorglings and strokings while watching TV program Trading Spaces - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Falun Gong's decision to stage demonstrations here has created a vexing dilemma for Hong Kong officials and business leaders.
  • Deciding what to be called is a particularly vexing problem for minority groups. Sociology
  • She took an excellent part in that: Fidelia, who teases her lover beyond vexing. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • The nature of its relationship to the poor is perhaps the most vexing ethical issue that Holy Trinity faces.
  • I want to see what that hellicate quean Jenny Ritherout's doing -- folk said she wasna weel -- She'll be vexing hersell about Steenie, the silly tawpie, as if he wad ever hae lookit ower his shouther at the like o'her! The Antiquary — Volume 02
  • Why is there so much passion about global warming, and why has the issue become so vexing that the American Physical Society, from which Dr. Giaever resigned a few months ago, refused the seemingly reasonable request by many of its members to remove the word "incontrovertible" from its description of a scientific issue? No Need to Panic About Global Warming
  • By now readers will have guessed that I am addressing the vexing question of roadside vending, and why, in spite of decades of attempts to eradicate what is illegal and most times unsightly, the authorities have failed.
  • You take delight in vexing me.
  • Rote memorization was the most vexing problem, compounded by bleak seminary finances which effected a shortage of qualified teachers, overcrowding, a lack of teaching materials, and facilities in a state of utter desuetude.
  • It was most vexing, especially, when her Ladyship turned in Kathleen's direction to speak, placing Kathleen in the most uncomfortable disposition.
  • First world problems, as they say, but still vexing. Times, Sunday Times
  • With clear tables and incisive arguments, it is a single-volume reference on this vexing sociocultural problem.
  • I found their attitude extremely vexing.
  • For Wordsworth, "vexing" crosses the boundaries between physical commotion and mental flurry, and between things as they are and things as they could be recreated. Leaving Box Hill: Emma and Theatricality
  • The trouble is, the rules governing courtship today are vexing and often destructive, reducing the stuff of poetry to something akin to emotional dodgeball.
  • It is a great matter God hath against us, when he hath this to charge us with, namely the vexing of his Spirit. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • Initial appointments can be a vexing matter, then we will shy, silent silence.
  • Midfield presents a different but equally vexing problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lately a vexing problem had grown infuriatingly worse.
  • (We will be returning to this theme, which is particularly vexing to modern readers, in subsequent chapters. RIDDLE ME THIS
  • The attitude of Fascism toward certain vexing questions can best he understood by a perusual of quotations from the speeches and writings of the Fascist leader, II Duce, as Mussolini is known to his partisans. Mussolini and the New Italy
  • keeping the Body regularly open" signifies in several possible ways, for staying open means staying receptive to oneself, the world, and others, a peculiarly regular attention of the senses that by the Romantic period becomes an acute dilemma, the psychosomatics of thinking and feeling vexing creation to the extent that Introduction
  • Deciding what to be called is a particularly vexing problem for minority groups. Sociology
  • What I find vexing is the PM’s view that he should be screened from meeting people who disagree with him. Bigotgate – the Diversity Trainers nightmare. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • -- Subpoint 3: Developing a product or process to solve a vexing internal problem, aka intrapreneurship, is a great way to reinvigorate your job and increase your visibility. How To Give A Great Presentation
  • ‘Aye, the good princess is a graceless, vexing little imp! ‘said the woman.’
  • If you cannot avoid calling a vexing method, catch its vexing exceptions. MSDN Blogs
  • The members of a thousand consciousness-raising groups drove themselves into a thousand tizzies trying to think up a solution to this homely yet vexing problem. How Serfdom Saved the Women’s Movement
  • The green question is especially vexing as both sides bandy scientific studies involving so many variables that the Natural Resources Defense Council considers the issue a wash when it comes to disposables in a landfill versus reusables in the laundry. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
  • Lent was also the season when the Church confronted perhaps its most vexing intellectual challenge.
  • For she held that a greater power than Setebos had made the world, leaving Setebos merely to "vex" it; while he contends that whoever made the world and its weakness, did so for the pleasure of vexing it himself; and that this greater power, the "Quiet," if it really exists, is above pain or pleasure, and had no motive for such a proceeding. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
  • There remains, however, another and more vexing problem.
  • Midfield presents a different but equally vexing problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • If and when the clinical trials comparying "riva" with warfarin in chronic atrial fibrillation demonstrates similar good results we may finally have a new oral anticoagulant than does not require frequent blood test monitoring and may be free of much of the vexing vagaries of trying to get the dose of warfarin right and keeping it there. posted by james gaulte @ 4:05 AM This time,new oral anticoagulants may well make it to the market
  • In the light of the tragic event, he could understand everything -- her quietness, that calm certitude as if all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about all that she had said and done that had been almost maternal. Chapter XII
  • AsiaSurf is a simple, elegant solution to a vexing software problem.
  • We'd been slugging it out against the vexing factor of distance, but now that other awful variable - time - had jumped us from behind and was punching our kidneys.
  • While the UN loss was no surprise given Russia's and China's joint aversion to UN/NATO mission creep in Libya the double veto camouflages a more vexing development in the Eastern Mediterranean: a renewed effort by Russia's Vladimir Putin to reconsolidate a foot-hold in the Middle East against anti-democratic forces. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Syria's Double Diplomatic Muscle
  • All of which raises vexing questions about the government's increasingly shaky energy policy, parts of which seem stuck in the old world. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are some people who like to see you post next chapters without any vexing cunctations.
  • It was vexing, therefore, to meet Sam Noble at the cattle grid. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
  • Ten minutes before the closing bell, a "vexing" out-of-the-money trade went through on the American Stock Exchange on options of the drugstore chain, said Rebecca Engmann Darst, an equity-options analyst at Interactive Brokers. Big Trade in CVS Draws Focus
  • This is most vexing and I think a serious clarification of our respective roles in this relationship should be undertaken, pronto.
  • When you glimpse your face in a shop window it appears as if you're struggling with some incredibly vexing problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mr. Darcy frowned while he normally enjoyed Miss Elizabeth's coyness, at time like these it could be most vexing.
  • It must be vexing to find oneself becoming a fictional character in old age. Times, Sunday Times
  • particularly vexing aspects of modern life.
  • The question vexing the government 's PR minders is whether they have spotted which bit could cause the most trouble. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is a vexing issue of how to serve the needs of children and disabled adults without infringing religious liberty.
  • The preacher, instead of vexing the ears of drowsy farmers on their day of rest at the end of the week — for Sunday is the fit conclusion of an ill-spent week, and not the fresh and brave beginning of a new one — with this one other draggle-tail of a sermon, should shout with thundering voice, Walden
  • Scholars have documented the inexorable effect...... the vexingly exorable effect... Obama's insipid emails are annoying Leon Wieseltier.
  • In Polczynski's view, this small, vexing problem offered a lesson on the new global economy.
  • I think I'll ask her this question that is vexing me so.
  • a vexing problem
  • The nature of its relationship to the poor is perhaps the most vexing ethical issue that Holy Trinity faces.
  • Marasha said the misuse of government vehicles was "vexing". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • This is a most vexing thing, when persons professing the Christian name indulge themselves in a liberty to walk at random; are impatient of restraints; affect libertinism; have not refrained their feet but have loved to wander: therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • With its incredibly high storage density, the DVD might just be the solution to two vexing problems.
  • But he might have fallen into the veteran's trap of looking for easy solutions to vexing problems. FOOLS GOLD
  • Germ theory after 1880 subtly fed into this anxiety by vexing our notions of identity, depicting an invisible world with the power to enforce similitude and therefore to redraw the lines of community.
  • Further vexing is that it is quite apparent that we have some greedy health care corporations that take advantage of our health care system. Wonk Room » New Doctors Coalition Adds Voices Of Physicians To Health Care Reform
  • -Subpoint 3:Developing a product or process to solve a vexing internal problem, aka intrapreneurship, is a great way to reinvigorate your job and increase your visibility. How To Give A Great Presentation
  • Even more vexing is the fact that much of Shelley's thinking about sexuality derives from the Greeks (see The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality
  • When you glimpse your face in a shop window it appears as if you're struggling with some incredibly vexing problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • If your grey matter won't produce a solution to a vexing problem - sleep on it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The question vexing the government 's PR minders is whether they have spotted which bit could cause the most trouble. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pear Pest's Chemical "Come Hither" Identified web July 2, 2010 Pear psylla is a cicada-like pest with a vexing tendency to develop resistance to insecticides. WN.com - Articles related to Kill weeds with help from the sun
  • it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong

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