| It sort of simmers and bubbles and from time to time erupts into a lava-like spasm of vexation, pique and peevishness. |
| He would promptly quit in vexation and would take incredible cajoling and persuasion to try again. |
| He's gone back to staring at me, this time with far more vexation and hostility. |
| The lens in this collection is focused very carefully upon the quotidian, with all of its utterly familiar vexations. |
| We can no longer afford to dismiss the vexations of terror now that they have invaded our own spiritual and intellectual terrain. |
| You're involved in an academic setting which, I'm sure has its vexations, but it beats the factory. |
